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Gallery Two
Spinners, Cribbage Pegs and Other Toys
Toys make our lives special. In the case of big boys they usually take the form of the latest and greatest shiny gadget. Big girls still dress up and do role modelling in front of their friends and neighbours. Some people (and most children - when you get them away from shiny gadgets) still take pleasure in the simple, traditional toys they enjoyed as children.
I enjoy making and playing with these traditional toys.
From spinning tops which small children can manage to whipping tops and fine, precision turned cribbage pegs, all toys bring to the lathe a sense of fun and enjoyment. The greatest pleasure of all is testing them out before letting them go on to make someone's else's life richer.
Cribbage pegs always get lost
When people discover that you can turn nice cribbage pegs, there is no shortage of orders to make replacement parts for their treasured scoring boards.
Detleff lives in one of the most remote parts of Northern Canada.
The post to his house is delivered once a week (when possible) by sea plane, and whales literally swim past his front door. He feeds eagles in his front garden like most people feed the sparrows, and the icicles hang 4 feet long from their front porch in the thaw. In the dark cold months of winter, they play a lot of cribbage using an exquisite board made by a local Inuit craftsman.