Wooden peg dolls

This is set of wooden peg dolls

Wooden peg dolls made from babul, pine and rubber wood

The heads were bought from a local craft shop. They are wooden beads. They had a hole on both sides. I filled up both with a wooden plug and used one side to attach them to the body.

The dark wood is karuvelum (babul). The lighter wood is finger jointed rubber and an old piece of pallet wood, probably pine.

The heads and body are joined together with wooden plugs cut with a plug cutter.

Wooden peg dolls. The heads are beads. The hole on top is filled with a plug

To shape the body I used an Einhell belt sander. The entire process would have been much easier with a soft wood and with a lathe, but as I do not have a lathe at present, a sander was the only option.

I used a router to eat away a little of the outer portion to make the legs.

Wooden peg dolls : The basic shapes made with a belt sander