alittle help from the forum plz

#1 07-16-2004, 08:03 PM

I have run across an articulated toy donkey plans that when you
pull a string from below the #7 kicks up his hind legs and bucks his head forward...I think it was here at WI ,but my memory escapes me and the pattern was a pdf file ..to be read on acrobat reader..I am trying to locate said pattern.. hence the name..'kickin' the chips.' I have entered that name in different browsers and the effort has been fruitless...anyone else run over this dadburn pattern????..if you have..pass it on plz..

Keep the chips flying
Bill#1

#2 07-16-2004, 09:24 PM

Bill, I have seen the pattern, but don't remember where.

The original pattern belonged to ANRI of Italy.

It was a bottle stopper and is pretty easy to carve.

#3 07-16-2004, 10:20 PM

Bill#1....Maybe this is what your loking for.....in the Spring 2002 issue of Wood Carving Illustrated, Daviid Sabol. on page #73, does a step by step carving of 'Kickin Up The Chips' which is teh donkey and the pull string.

Hope this is of interest in your quest...Coffeeman

#4 07-17-2004, 09:05 AM

Many of these 'toys' are based on whirligigs, these wind powered ornaments were a very popular form of 'folk art'.

http://www.serenitygardens.com/gigimage/donkey1.gif

Tangerman has some in his 'Whittling And Woodcarving' including a kicking donkey. I haven't found a plan or pattern online yet but am still looking

#5 07-17-2004, 02:24 PM

Hey fellas
Thanks for the responses..I did find a hardcopy pattern of the
'kickin' up the chips' in issue # 18 after some diggin around the website here ..yes I like carved pieces with movement..and want to start on..this one...I did see the same one online somewhere..thanks again for those that have more memory than me...

Respectfully
Bill#1