Little Engine

So the cold weather really came to Georgia this week and that made it time to turn to 'inside' projects that have been waiting for just such a time that I would not be working or playing outside.  Last Christmas my daughter-in-law gave me a little building project knowing that I like to make things with my hands and such.  Bless her heart... her intentions were so good.  Of course now I know that she probably got this sucker from some old people torture web site!  I'm figuring it's going to take a few days to be able to focus my eyes normally.  Regardless, the project is completed and it will go along side my other little projects although the others aren't quite so little.

I think this is the first project I've every worked on where EVERY tool I used was bigger than the final assembly was going to be.  I stopped to take this on day 2 I think it was because it seemed I just kept going to bet more tools including the dowel to use to bend pieces around.  That's the work in progress sitting on the pale yellow instruction sheet.  Easy to follow instructions.  Of course not a word of direction... just pictures.

 

Just after I finished... 4th day on the project... I'm thinking about 14 hours.

 

 

 

All done.  Just a shot to show that this little sucker is indeed little.  No way to show the complexity of the project and I won't relate any conversations I had with myself along the way when dealing with the incredibly small and fragile/thin pieces.  Regardless... thank you, Samantha, for giving me a cold weather project to keep busy with :)