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October 2019 Time to make: 3 hours Finishing: 1 hour Original design: Philmont / Bill Macfarlane Days till Philmont Countdown So lets combine a couple of last few slides into another well recognized symbol of Philmont. Carved from reclaimed white oak pallet wood, I purposefully left this on the rough side because I liked the thought…
October 2019 Time to make: 3 hours Finishing: 1 hour Original design: Philmont / Bill Macfarlane Days till Philmont Countdown Another widely recognized symbols of Philmont is the black bull. There was also a white bull for female advisors that was available until sometime in 1980's (or so I'm told).
October 2019 Time to make: 1 hours Boys Life "Slide of the Month" May 1979, page 70 Original design: Wayne Mason Memory's of Summer, warm temps, kids playing, and the sound of the Ice Cream truck. Sigh...now on to Fall.
September 2019 Time to make: 3 hours Finishing: 1 hour Original design: Philmont / Bill Macfarlane Days till Philmont Countdown One of the most recognizable symbols of Philmont is the Arrowhead with the Tooth of Time on it. First issued in 1957 , the Arrowhead patch is awarded to each participant who compleats a 7 or 12-day…
September 2019 Time to make: 3 hours Finishing: 1 hour Original design: Philmont / Bill Macfarlane Days till Philmont Countdown Yes, I'm headed to Philmont as a part of a Council Continent and I thought I would come up with a series of Philmont inspired neckerchief slides.
September 2019 Time to make: 2 hours Boys Life "Slide of the Month" Oct. 1994, page 65 Original design: Jeff Springer Of course, when I think of cartoon fish I can't help but think of the yellow submarine in the sea of green.
August 2019 Time to forge 1 hour Sanding and filing 1 hour Time to carve: 1 hour Finishing: .5 hour Design: Brainfoo Modified as a slide: Bill Macfarlane Made from mystic Uru metal on the neutron star Nidavellir, homeworld of the Dwarves, the Strombreaker was wielded by Thor in the battle against Thanos.
Why Google why? WW II History week by week While I don't normally get involved in different movements, I find the recent censorship by Google and YouTube of historical channels repulsive. Please share by using the hashtag #HonorOurPast
August 2019 Time to carve: 1 hour Finishing: .5 hour Boy's Life -October 1981, page 51 Design: Tell and Don Gubler When I first became an Assistant Scoutmaster in Central Bridge NY, the Rubiks cube was all the rage. I always marveled on how many Scouts could solve the puzzle in a couple of minutes…
June/July 2019 Time to make: None (This is a no brainer) Original Design: Bill Macfarlane(ish) So a funny thing happened when I went to post this month's extra slide, I realized last month's never got published so this is a two for one month and it involves school spirit in the form of mascots.
July 2019 Time to make: .5 hours Finishing: at .25 hour Boy's Life - May 1999 Design: Jeff Piasky Need a slide in a hurry? Got some comics and glue? Well you can quickly make slide by taking a strip from the comic pages spreading some glue and rolling it into a tube.
June 2019 Time to make: 2 hours Boys Life "Slide of the Month" Mar. 1965, page 70 Original design: William Poese I quite enjoyed making this slide because it brings together an old Scout skill (which I was never very good at as a Scout) and the pleasure of crafting a slide.
May 2019 Time to carve: 1 hour Finishing: .5 hour Thingiverse June 16, 2017 Design: chemteacher628 Try it yourself (I only printed the capsule) The New Shepard capsule is a 6 person craft being built by Blue Origin (owned by Amazon's Jeff Bezos and businessman Rob Meyerson).
April 2019 Time to carve: 2 hours Finishing: 1.5 hour Boy's Life - August 1975 Design: Wayne Mason I do apologize that I don't have great pictures of this slide so here is one with and without a flash. Coming off making the wooden bucket slide, I knew I wanted to use Oak so the grain…
April 2019 Time to make: 1 hours Original design: Bill Macfarlane Something a little different. I was cleaning out some old electronics I came across a circuit board the was interesting so why not make it into a slide. I carefully cut around the area I wanted to use, sanded the edges and then glued…
April 2019 Time to carve: 2 hours Finishing: 1.5 hour Boy's Life - January 1987 Design: Bill Fleming It's funny to me how many of these bloody things I rake up in the fall only to find more in the spring.
March 2019 Time to make: 4 hours Finishing: 2 hours Thingiverse Design:Zastro Try it yourself The Dragon 2 space capsule is designed and built by Space X (owned by Elon Musk). It carries a possible crew of seven and originally was planned for a vertical "propulsive landing".
March 2018 Time to carve: 1 hour Finishing: .5 hour Boy's Life -November 1980, page 66 Design: Not named Interesting fact there is a difference between a checkers or draughts around the world. In America we play checkers on a 8 x 8 square board with 12 pieces per side.
February 2018 Time to make: 15 minutes Original design: A. C. This design was created by one of my Scouts (who's name I can't use because he is under 18). Back story, it was memorial day and we were gathering before the parade.
February 2018 Time to carve: 1 hour Finishing: .5 hour Boy's Life -August 1989, page 79 Design: Bill Andrews Oh boy, when I saw this slide in my notebook I was taken back to my days as a Scout trying to clean the remnant out of the fry pan after questionably cooked hamburger.
January 2018 Time to print: 4 hours Finishing: 2 hour Thingiverse - NASA Design:NasaModels Try it yourself Having finished the current manned spacecraft, I go forward with some upcoming capsules starting with the Orion. The Orion is NASA's next generation spacecraft for deep space missions.
January 2019 Time to carve: 1 hour Finishing: .5 hour Boy's Life - January 1991 Design: Terry Gilbert I had some time to kill one night while waiting for a call so grabbed my knife and a scrap piece of maple.
December 2018 Time to make: 3 hours Original design: Mike Ward Find it here Going only on a picture and knowing it was built in a small hand sanitizer bottle, I sought out as many instructional videos I could find on YouTube and How to sites.
December 2018 Time to make: 2 hours Boys Life "Slide of the Month" December 1993, page 67 Original design: Jeff Springer The calendar said fall but Mother Nature say " Hold my coffee ". Holy cow, was there even a fall this year as snow came before the leaves were raked (or even off the tree).
November 2018 Time to print: 4 hours Modifications: 1.5 hours Finishing: 2 hours Boy's Life - Design: "Mission to the edge of Space" was what was claimed by Red Bull when the Stratos capsule carried Felix Baumgartner to a height of 38.9694 kilometres (24.2145 mi).
November 2018 Time to make: 1 hour Original design: Bill Andrews Source : Boys Life Slide of the Month Sept. 1988 page 62 A neat little slide in between other projects. The handle of the saw is a piece of aluminum hanger wire or fence wire that I bend to shape and cut a slot into…
October 2018 Time to make: 3 hours Original design: Bobby Duke Arts Modified version: Bill Macfarlane I happened on to Bobby Duke Arts You Tube channel and how he made a small knife from a stainless steel bolt. Hmmm...I think I could do that.
October 2018 Time to carve: 2 hours Finishing: 1.5 hour Boy's Life - November 1983 Design: Kenneth Koob There is nothing as good as a Dutch oven meal at Scout camp! My first time having anything from a Dutch oven was a peach cobbler at JLITC training at Camp Rotary.
September 2018 Time to print: 4 hours Finishing: 2 hours Thingiverse July 13, 2011 Design: 7777773 Try it yourself On December 17, 2003, the 100th anniversary of the Wight Brothers first manned flight, SpaceShipOne became the first private craft to achieve supersonic flight.
September 2018 Time to make: 5 hours Boys Life "Slide of the Month" May 1985, page 65 Original design: Lew Weston It's funny when my son first saw this slide, he instantly thought it was Pedro from Boy's Life and looking at it now I can see the resemblance.
August 2018 Time to make: 1 hours Slides N' Woggles Issue 2 Original design: Greg Firestone May 2000 Modified version: Bill Macfarlane August 2018 When I was a Scout it seemed every Scoutmaster worth their salt had a Coleman Lamp in the campsite.
August 2018 Time to make: 1 hours Boys Life "Slide of the Month" August 1979 , page 52 Original design: Tom Dwyer A fun functional little slide with high note and a lower note that kind of reminds me of an English Bobby's whistle .
2018 Time to print: 3 hours Finishing: 1.5 hour Thingiverse 2013 Design: Craig_H Modifications: Bill Macfarlane Shenzhou is the capsule from Chinese manned space program and translation I like the best is "magic boat". Similar to the Russian Soyuz spacecraft but on a larger in scale.
July 2018 Time to make: 4 hours Boys Life "Slide of the Month" July 1999, page 50 Original design: Will Scarlet "Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land Unto All the Inhabitants thereof" is the inscription on the Liberty Bell. And you can find more information on the Liberty Bell at the Nation Park System's web…
2018 Time to make: 2 hours Original design: Bill Macfarlane So I was thinking, what would I like in a survival kit that could fit inside a neckerchief slide like the one from William Poese. Well I would want a good length of paracord but where to put it?
June 2018 Time to make: 2 hours Boys Life "Slide of the Month" March 1963, page 30 Original design: William Poese A survival kit in a neckerchief slide! This project has a coat hanger "pack frame" to hold the shape of the pack, a leather pack, and a wooden peg closure.
Mid May 2018 Time to design: 2 hours Time to build: 2 days Original design: Bill Macfarlane What if the petrol and electronic eras never happened? Would our society revolved around a steam technology? Steampunk stories revolve around the " alternate version of the historic past, especially 19th-century England, and involving advanced technologies usually based on…
May 2018 Time to design: 2 hours Time to print: 2 hours (your times may vary Finishing: 2 hour Original design: Thingiverse Original designer:manboy Try it yourself: Soyuz spacecraft Designed for the Soviet Lunar Space program, the Soyuz spacecraft is still in use today bringing astronauts, cosmonauts, and other guests to the international space station.
April 2017 Time to make: 1 hour (give or take a few years) Original design: Nature An old friend once told me "slides don't make themselves", well maybe I had to do some work but there is no way I could have designed this myself.
April 2018 Time to carve: 2 hours Finishing: 1.5 hour Boy's Life July, 1976 Design: Wayne Mason An interesting idea, weigh down a person with a big metal helmet while pumping air down to them. There is pretty good video of an old diving suit out on you tube.
March 2018 Time to make: 3 hours Design Bill Macfarlane Original concept: Bill Burch So while I was carving the Bill Burch slide of the month I got an idea. I was a Scout back in the 70's and I thought what if I did a Scout of that era.
2018 Time to make: 3 hours Boys Life "Slide of the Month" April 1975 page 54 Original design: Bill Burch and John Taylor Bill Burch had been carving bolo slide for years and has been at many Scout functions including National Jamborees.
February 2018 Time to design: 3 hours Time to print: 4 hours (your times may vary) Finishing: 3 hour Original design: Bill Macfarlane Try it yourself : Voskhod slide The Voskhod space capsule was a larger modified version of the Vostok capsule large enough for two cosmonauts.
January 2018 Time to make: I lost track of time (I was having so much fun) Original design: Bill Macfarlane Years ago I saw a wonderful book that had been cut around illustrations in the book and layered together to form a piece of art.
January 2018 Time to make: 1 hour Boys Life "Slide of the Month" "Button 'N' Things" May 1959, page 58 Kenneth Damm "Postage Stamp" July 1987, page 56 Robert Schleicher "Stamp" May 1978, page 67 Wayne Mason When I was a Scout, Stamp Collecting Merit Badge was a very popular merit badge to earn during…
December 2017 Time to make: 2 hours Boys Life "Slide of the Month" Dec. 1992, page 65 Original design: Jeff Springer A fun little slide with a dual purpose. The directions called for 1/4 " pine to make this but I happened to have some extra thin plywood left over from another slide (yet to be…
2017 Time to design: 2 hours Time to print: 4 hours (your times may vary) Finishing: 3 hour Original designer: nemilya Try it yourself: Vostok Spacecraft (Gagarin) On April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1 became the first man to enter space and made one orbit around the earth.
Nov. 2017 Time to make: 2 hours Original design: Bill Macfarlane So back when I was making the Hound Dog slide, I had a few turkey neck bones left that I hung on to for future slides. What struck me is how much one looked like a dinosaur and the other like a dragon.
November 2017 Time to carve: 3 hours Finishing: 1.5 hour Boy's Life - October 1996 page 52 Design: Jeff Springer Here is an interesting slide but not because of the design (which I like) but because I can no longer find it online.
End of October 2017 Time to make: 1 hours Original design: Bill Macfarlane In this time of Ghosts, Ghouls and Goblins, I think it is time for me to show my emergency Zombie Apocalypse Plan slide. (What you don't have a Zombie Apocalypse Plan?)
