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The Wind Worn Whirligig The Part of a Wind Toy One Can Not Make or Fake Folk Art Whirligig Wear


The part of a whirligig one can not build is the wear.  The familiar "man sawing wood" whirligig, inescapable  when antique hunting.  The pattern I have here helps anybody build a wind machine about the same size as the one shown, but you can not create age.  Wind and weather does that, and the saw here has been worn smooth as butter by some fifty years of frantic movement.  Want to fake the age of a whirligig?  You can not.  You can trick a buyer, but you can not trick a wind machine.  My brother in law found me a good one.


Saw portion of a wooden whirligig, circa 1940-1950


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