February 2024
Time to make: 2 hours
Boys Life "Slide of the Month"
August 2000, page 63
Original design: Jeff Springer
With crews getting ready to go to Sea Base on school vacation, I got thinking about this slide.
Back years ago when I was a kid, during the golden age of television, there use to be a show called Flipper about a boy and his dolphin . While I loved back then, I realize how it seems corny by today's standards and to me a watery version of Lassie. "Hey Fipper, Bud fell down the well" and the dolphin just laughed.
WOW...this one looked easy but I had a hard time trying to make this one look like Jeff's with the right proportions. Carved from maple with odd cuts and a lot of sanding. LOTS of sanding. I painted it with hobby paints and finished it off with a couple coats of poly.
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