I’m going nuts trying to come up with a name for this:
When I was a kid, for Christmas one year, my mother bought for me this woodcutting type toy. Basically it was a small domed saw and you would put wide pieces of balsa wood through it and it would cut them down the middle. It may have had other functions too, and I know for a fact that it was yellow.
After you cut the wood, you would use the supplied Elmer’s glue and stickers and put together an old Wild West town complete with saloon and inn.
Google has let me down and I seem to be the only person who has ever owned it. Can anyone help me?
I’m trying to see this in my head, and I’m wondering if it worked like a table saw (spinning disc blade), a jigsaw (up-and-down oscillating blade) or more like a router (spinning bit)?
Great link, MonkeyMensch, at least for me, the one at the bottom of the page is exactly the one I had.
In 1978 Mattel re-issued the Power Shop in a new kinder, gentler, politically correct, can’t possibly cut one’s fingers version. A lesser version that is operated via a crank, this one can only cut thin balsa wood and is not nearly as cool as the original 1960s version.
Hrrrmph. It might’ve been “lesser” but it was still hella cool. I guess mine must’ve been sitting on a dusty store shelf for a few years, because I know I got it later than 78.