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Step 2Mark and cut wood block for the train engine
1. Make an ~ 4 x 4 x 12-18 inch block of wood for the engine. Mark engine block with scribe to prepare to carve curve-topped "boiler." Scribe both ends in a semi-circle (flat side is bottom of engine where wheel carriage will go) by finding the center of both ends and planting the scribe needle there.
2. Carve boiler. I began with an adz for the fun of it, then I finished by clamping down and planing with a jack plane.
ADVICE -- Preserve and mark out the center hole from the compass circle because later you will be drilling a peg hole there to install the headlamp....because a train without a cyclopean headlamp as it courses down the tracks projecting its dragonish light ahead of it is no train at all.
2. Carve boiler. I began with an adz for the fun of it, then I finished by clamping down and planing with a jack plane.
ADVICE -- Preserve and mark out the center hole from the compass circle because later you will be drilling a peg hole there to install the headlamp....because a train without a cyclopean headlamp as it courses down the tracks projecting its dragonish light ahead of it is no train at all.
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