Manual Training Toys for the Boy's Workshop

Featuring projects from the 19th and 20th centuries, this woodworking handbook presents family-friendly shop projects from a bygone era.

Each project - many of them toys from a simpler time when boys were trained to use tools to create useful objects - comes with a cutting list and dimensioned drawing.

Projects include a New Year's Eve rattle, a cannon that shoots marbles, a kite string reel, a pop-gun and whistle, a bow and arrow, a sword, and a magic box.

This evocative guide not only instructs aspiring crafters to construct, but also provides finished products that entertain.