I met a guy back in November who was a potential client. Went to his house to look at putting in a security system and some cameras and in the process of shooting the breeze with him we got on the subject of wood working. He excused himself for a moment after we had been talking for a good half hour and came back with a box. Took out a bunch of wood toys all the same scale that he played with as a boy. Several of them were missing wheels and the axles were broken. Said he had been asking around for years trying to find someone to make some new wheels with no luck. So I told him that if he wasn't in any hurry I would take one of the wheels he had in the box and see what I could do. My buddies at Dunlap Wood Products helped me find a piece of English Walnut pretty close to the existing wheels color and off I go. Now the old wheels were segmented and I'm assuming these toys were made from scrap material. He told me the guy who made them was a friend of his dad's and he made furniture for a living. I'm not cutting up the big old chunk of walnut so these are going to be solid. Anyway two are turned and one is almost done. One more to go then a little tongue oil and I'll get them to him. The face of these were really rough so I went at it and didn't worry about making mine smooth so hopefully they will blend in with the old. Just a little moisture on that last picture. Ok ok I licked my finger!
