Make the wagon-box parts and apply latex primer. Attach the side panels to the front and back panels with wood glue and 6d finish nails. Paint everything red. Or any color. The best wagons are red, ...

POP Projects is a collection of new and classic projects from more than a century of Popular Mechanics. Master skills, get tool recommendations, and, most importantly, build something of your very own ...

Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series about toy-making in the Chicago area. At the western edge of Chicago, across from an Old Country Buffet and within barking distance of a ...

Antonio Pasin, who had learned cabinet-making on a Venetian estate, started manufacturing a wooden toy wagon in Chicago in 1917, first calling it “Liberty Coaster” for the Statue of Liberty, then ...

Fargo - LeRoy Hintz has found a special way to honor his grandfather's memory. The 71-year-old Fargo man makes miniature wooden Western wagons by hand, but without using any pattern or model. Hintz ...

You may wonder what young people did for amusement before the invention of tablets, cell phones and video games. Believe it or not, there was a time when toys, and other forms of children's ...

Around 1899, the price of 10 papers was 5 cents. Most of the newsboys were homeless and this is how they earned a living. Toy wagons, those that are large enough to give rides to children or to haul ...

Why design computers when you can make toys? Scot Herbst, a hotshot Silicon Valley designer and one of the design minds behind the HP Touchscreen, teamed up with his wife to take on a gentler ...