This is a quest to make all the slides featured in the Whittlin Jim's "Slide of the Month" in Boy's Life magazine. (Hopefully without doing lasting damage to my hands or fingers.) Blogging my progress along the way. I completed my task in March of 2017 and now post my own designs along with some other "Slide of the Month" contributors.
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Sunday, March 19, 2017
Cree Toboggan
Sometime between 2012 and 2015
Time to make: 2 hours
Finishing: 2 hour
Coming on the heels of the showshoe slide, I knew that I would use basketry reed to complete this slide. I glued a couple of reeds together using super glue and soaked it in water to make it pliable. Bent it around a dowel and let it dry until it would retain its shape. I drilled a couple of holes for the top for the ropes and glued the crossbars in place. A couple of coats of poly finish it up.
From Ben Hunt's Boy's Life article
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