Make A Set Of Wooden Pliers With 10 Cuts

[Mergie Master]

This is pretty neat. It would be cool to show your kids or grandkids. They'd think you were some kind of wizard. Plus they'd get a free old school toy.



When I was a kid my parents didn't have a lot of money so my dad used to carve toys for me. I wish now I would have kept them. I remember a couple. One was a working belt buckle I wore that looked like a monkey. He carved it out of a peach pit. The other was sort of a rattle. It was a solid walnut ball inside a square cage. He carved it from a solid 4" x 4" piece of walnut. The top and bottom of the cage was solid, but it had bars like a cage at the zoo on the sides. He carved the bars and then carved the ball out inside them so the ball couldn't be removed.

At least I still have the solid walnut bedroom suit he made. He built 2 end tables, the double size headboard, chest of drawers and curved glass from bookcase with 2 drawers. It still looks like something you'd see on the showcase floor in a furniture store. Dad was just good with wood.

He even built the fastest boat (at the time) on Lake Greenwood when I was about 7. It was a 15' runabout with a mahogany deck, bow and trim. The deck was beautiful. It had a portal in the bow deck for storing life jackets (there were no life vests back then except for military surplus Mae Wests), etc.

He put a 35HP Scott-Etwater (largest outboard around here then) on it. He got the motor cheap and rebuilt it. It would pull 2 grown men on skis. I used to ski behind that boat a lot when I was 7 and 8 yrs old.