After a bunch of years of not being interested in being in Scouts, my son, age 11, decided to join at the beginning of the school year. He'll be going to Boy Scouts next month but he was able to get in one Pinewood Derby at least. Here's his car.
He was inspired by watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I had him do all the bandsaw work after he practiced cutting about 6 feet of 2x4 into little curvy pieces.
We spent a bunch of time talking about the steps required to cut out the car and organizing things. I drew some of the lines on the block for him to follow but he did all the cutting and a nice job of it too. We used pieces we cut away to make other parts of the car. You can probably pick some of them out. There were a few spots where we needed to add some wood filler and we made that from glue and sanding dust off the car.
His wasn't the fastest car but it wasn't the slowest, either. And he won an award for coolest car as voted on by the other scouts.
He was inspired by watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I had him do all the bandsaw work after he practiced cutting about 6 feet of 2x4 into little curvy pieces.
We spent a bunch of time talking about the steps required to cut out the car and organizing things. I drew some of the lines on the block for him to follow but he did all the cutting and a nice job of it too. We used pieces we cut away to make other parts of the car. You can probably pick some of them out. There were a few spots where we needed to add some wood filler and we made that from glue and sanding dust off the car.
His wasn't the fastest car but it wasn't the slowest, either. And he won an award for coolest car as voted on by the other scouts.
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