Garden Windmill.pdf

Garden Windmill

MATERIALS:

• 1 sheet of good-one-side (paint grade) 3/4" plywood for the base and

tower

• 12' of 1x8 clear pine for the blades and decorative attachments

• 1 four inch "lazy susan" turntable so the top can rotate into the wind

• 1" dowel, about 6"long, for the shaft of the blades

BUILDING INSTRUCTIONS:

• Cut the base from 3/4" ply into a hexagon 24" across the flats

• Cut six pieces of ply about 6" high to form the skirt under the base

• The tower is a tapering cone, 33" high, made from six pieces of plywood,

8" wide narrowing to 4" at the top

• On top of this sits a box 6" on a side and 4" high which rotates on the

"lazy susan" turntable

• The 1" dowel is inserted into a 1" hole drilled into one face of this box at a

slight angle above horizontal

• Attached to this 1" dowel are the four blades, which can be made up of

thin pieces of clear pine ripped into 1/4" x3/8" x36" and glued together

and to a 3/4"x3/4" piece of pine which is inserted into the 1" dowel