Dolly Village

Clinton · Post by **Clinton** » Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:25 pm

Thanks for the "heads up" Howard. I look forward to it! So-- how's JAX weather today there sir? Cold & foggy where I'm at... brrrr!!

Post by **PutzinVT** » Sun Feb 14, 2016 6:29 pm

Speaking of Dolly's Does anyone know what the little metal cleat things are that hold the Dolly bases together?
See picture below.

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Would be neat to reproduce or buy them. would like to try to duplicate the cut out version of the base.

Steve

Post by **Howard** » Sun Feb 14, 2016 7:01 pm

steve...

old howard has looked and looked for these all over the net...drawn a blank at every turn...i seem to remember the name "bulldog" was in the description..."bulldog" could have been the maker...

howard...

Clinton · Post by **Clinton** » Mon Feb 15, 2016 1:11 am

I have several of the Dolly houses that have this very base. I will not only trace out the base, but I will try to see if I can somehow "copy" those metal cleats out of something Steve. You're right howard, I have also tried to track them down, but to no avail as well...

Post by **Lynn** » Mon Feb 15, 2016 9:14 am

Hi Will & Howard

Not sure if this is something you could use. I found these clamps on ebay. I searched out corner fasters, picture frame decorative corner fasters, small trunk jewelry boxes it may lead you to something useful..

http://www.ebay.com/itm/8pc-Small-Brass ... O8avvIVVcw

Post by **PutzinVT** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 3:28 pm

Will:

I would love to get some dimensions of the cleats.
I have the start of an idea to make them, but I do not own a really dolly house of my own to
compare to.

Steve

Clinton · Post by **Clinton** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 6:54 pm

Hey Steve,

I will try to dig into my myriad of putz houses tonight and post a pic or 2 plus some dimensions for ya!

Post by **PutzinVT** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 9:01 pm

Much Thanks Will.

Clinton · Post by **Clinton** » Thu Feb 18, 2016 4:32 pm

Greetings to all today!

I finally dug out my dollys and what a sad bunch these poor girls are in! Oh well, I got the whole lot for less than $20 a few years back. I will be doing a restore on them when I have some free time (HAHAHA!!, that's a joke, see?) Steve-- Here's some pics for you and everyone to take a gander at. I haven't got dimensions on the base yet, but will by the end of the day hopefully. There are actually 2 different sizes! I even had a loose base cleat/clamp, so I gently pulled it off, cleaned it up, and was able to take a few snapshots of it. I'm thinkin' you might be able to engineer one of these out of sode pop can metal maybe?? Also, I went "dolly crazy", learned how to use a design program, and made some windows for myself. So, with no further adieu, here's what I got so far...