November 2022
Time to make: 2 hours
Boys Life "Slide of the Month"
Aug. 1984, page 53
Original design: Fritz Hines
Another clown slide!
Carved from maple with a dowel nose. Painted with hobby paints and finished with a couple coats of poly.
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.
From http://www.historichalescorners.org/hchs4.htm
W. Ben Hunt (1888-1970) was born in the town of Greenfield, Wisconsin.
Ben Hunt was a leader in the outdoor movement and in the reintroduction of pioneer skills. He introduced subjects such as rustic woodworking, whittling and carving, metal working, and historic Indian crafts and lore as hobbies and handicrafts for fun and leisure-time activities. He was involved with the Boy Scouts on a local and national level.
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