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

Dolls house furniture 2

This was another set of doll's house furniture made as a gift. This is 1:6 in scaling, and is made to fit Barbie dolls.

A doll's house sofa set made from Finger jointed rubber wood

My daughter's barbie dolls with a bit of decoration on the sofa set 

Wood: Finger jointed rubber wood. A small piece of babul wood for the table legs
Stain: Walnut stain for the sides to provide some constrast.
Finish: Glossy wood varnish, wiped away to give a thin matte coat.
Making the pieces: The pieces were first cut out with my home made table saw. The edges were routed using a router table. They were stuck together and fixed with headless nails. A pilot hole was drilled with a Dremel 300 to avoid the wood splitting when hammering in.
Over all effect : I was happy with the way the pieces turned out. The stain on the sides could have been darker.

Toggle clamps

Here are a set of toggle clamps that I bought from Abbot Toolfast Pvt Ltd.
My experience with them was very good. I was able to purchase two clamps online.
I have used them on my home made table saw cross cut jig which has helped me now cut much thinner and smaller pieces of wood.
The cost was about Rs 650 per clamp (including shipping and taxes). They have a lot of other clamps that one could purchase. The white ends of the clamps are actually nylon bushes that I fixed at the lower end of the clamp.