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JANUARY 27, 2014

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Inside this edition: Master Toymaker Dave Szczepanek shares his Antique Metro Trucks tips and tricks.

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CUSTOMIZED ANTIQUE METRO TRUCKS AND STOREFRONTS

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Table Saw Magician with Dave Szczepanek Greetings everyone! Wood Toy News invites you to follow along this week as we visit Dave Szczepanek hard at work in his workshop, Bopa’s Wood Shop. In this issue Dave is using his table saw skills customizing the Table Saw Magic Antique Metro Trucks plan set and Storefronts with exciting and original details. Dave adds opening doors, modular hook-ups, fire station details and many more fantastic modifications to this fun plan set. He even creates a Puppy Town! Please follow along as we take you through Dave Szczepanek’s town play set. Benjamin Trokey Wood Toy News Editor


Above: Dave adds secial details to the storefronts, trucks and town. Right: Original plan set. www.toymakingplans.com © 2014

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Dave customizes the Antique Metro Trucks storefront design in the plan set to a modular design that allows for a variety of building set ups.

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STOREFRONT MODIFICATIONS ARE EXPERTLY DESIGNED AND CRAFTED WITH A HIGH LEVEL OF ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING SKILL. Modular walls and storefronts are constructed and modified depending on the type of building. Dave suggests that you start by looking through your wood scrap pile and finding wood shorts to make wall sections.

Blocks with Dowel Pegs

Blocks with dowel pegs are glued to wall side edges. Walls when finished will connect easily to each other using the removable drilled connector blocks.

Construction starts by assembling the window wall and door walls. The pegs are added to the window wall and the door wall. You can see how short pieces are glued together to create window and door openings. For Dave’s business, Bopa’s Wood Shop, he builds several sets of the Antique Metro Trucks and Town.

Dave creatively added connectors and pegs, so storefronts and walls will be unique in appearance. Building connectors and pegs are then fitted together to link the walls of the storefronts. Drilled Connector Blocks

Above: Wall shown before Blocks with Dowel Pegs are glued to sides. Drilled connector blocks are used to connect the freestanding walls together. Hours of fun for the kids!




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Removable Connector Block

Above: Wall shown after Blocks with Dowel Pegs are glued to wall sides.

Pieces needed for the fire department store front are shown below. You can add an overhead door later.

Overhead door for Fire Department.

CONSTRUCTION OF DOORS

The photo below shows the door pre-assembly. Dave installed the doors into wall openings by adding hinge bars, pins and the door. Dave cuts and trims the hinge bars for a tight fit. Likewise, he trims the door at the bottom or along the unhinged side for the correct clearance. This also allows the use of a different stain for the door or overhead door as desired. Suggestions:

Below: How the connectors are used to connect the storefront to any of the window or • Use a round over doorwalls. bit on both edges along the hinge side. • Drill top & bottom holes before routing edge. • Drill all hinge bars at one time and make extra bars. Removable Connector Blocks in place.

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Dave used straight offcut and short wood from the scrap pile for the wall sections. He ripped cut the pieces to proper widths as needed. The widths are uniform in all walls. Openings for doors, overhead doors and windows are cross cut to length.

When gluing along sides of each length, Dave used clamps, as well as cauls to keep walls flat. The peg pieces are the last parts glued to the walls. 3 saw kerfs were used to create the overhead Here you can see the front and back views of door section effect. a window wall section. He pre-glued the oak window and then overlayed it on the wall.

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CONSTRUCTION OF AND STOREFRONTS

TRUCKS

The overhead door opens so the fire truck can be backed into the fire house.

Let’s review Dave’s photos to see some Below: The fire department storefront and fire trucks and their accompanying storefronts. He truck broken down. created 7 different modified and original store fronts for Metro Village. 1- Fire Department and the Metro Village Fire Truck

Here is a close look at the fire truck. The ladders are removable. Yes, that is a fire hose in the back of the fire engine.

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fire hose nozzle to the tubing and another one 2- Police Department and the Police Patrol stored at the back of the fire engine. Truck

Components that make up the Metro Village Police Department are shown below.

Dowel tabs hold back door in place.



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The back door can be locked into place by using the dowel tab on top.

Dowel tabs hold back door in place.

Here is the front and back of Metro Hospital storefront. The back shows how the doors and hinge bars were inserted into the opening created.

3- Metro Hospital and the Ambulance

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Pictures of the ambulance:



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4- Post Office and the Mail Truck

After hours the mail box has to be emptied and mail brought to the Post Office. Components that make up the US Post Office store front.

When the Post Office is open, you can drop mail off. If it is closed, you can use the mail box or night drop at the Post Office. Details of the Post Office:



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5- Puppy Town Store and Puppy Town



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Limo.

The components that make up the Puppy Town Store and Limo:

The Puppy Town Limo.

Side walls can be located to the side or to the back.



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6- Metro Warehouse and the Delivery Truck Wonder where the Town is getting its supplies? All supplies come from the Metro Warehouse and they will make Metro Truck deliveries.

The truck can be unloaded now…

Not only is the Metro Warehouse Delivery Truck filled, but it has a cooler for ice cubes.



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Components for the Metro Warehouse:

7- City General Store and Delivery Truck



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General Store and Delivery Truck.

Construction of the Lamp Posts Here’s how the lamp posts for the village are constructed and how you can do the same. After gluing, stain and apply finish to the lamp posts.



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Construction of the Fire Hydrants Here’s how the fire hydrants are constructed and how you can do it.

1. Glue two dowels together 2. Glue other smaller wheel

1. Drill small hole into half round 2. Drill hole for smaller dowel 3. Flat wheel 4. Small plane wheel 5. Flat wheel

Glue tops into assembly and small accent dowels.

Glue pieces together.



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Paint and apply finish to the hydrants.

Dave Szczepanek Bopa’s Wood Shop Avon, Indiana USA Dave can be contacted at: [email protected]




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