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Subject: Drawing Apparatus
Written By: tsunamimom on 08/04/04 at 8:48 pm
Does anyone remember a drawing toy sold in the 70's? It was a frame arrangement with a sucker in the middle to stabilise it. You inserted a pencil in one end and using the tracer end on the other, could reproduce a line drawing or design, even scaling it if you wanted to.
I really hope someone remembers these things - I'm on a hunt for one and can't think of the name!
love
Jo
Subject: Re: Drawing Apparatus
Written By: karen on 08/05/04 at 4:19 am
I know what you mean. I've used one relatively recently to make models of hillls from a contour map.
Is it Sketchmaster?
I'll ask my husband, he might recall the name.
Subject: Re: Drawing Apparatus
Written By: karen on 08/06/04 at 9:26 am
It was called Sketch Master. There's one currently for sale on e-bay (UK)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1039&item=5912534168&rd=1&ssPageName=WD4V
Subject: Re: Drawing Apparatus
Written By: BrianMannixGirl on 08/07/04 at 2:58 am
Mine was orange and yellow and I still have it packed away somewhere !!
Subject: Re: Drawing Apparatus
Written By: Davester on 08/08/04 at 10:43 am
This drawing apparatus sound familiar. I received one as a birthday or X-mas gift in the late 70s. I remember it was marketed by K-Tel. The pitch - one was supposed to use this thing to make an exact copy of some simple line art. Don't recall if I had much success with it...probably not.
Subject: Re: Drawing Apparatus
Written By: Howard on 08/08/04 at 3:23 pm
http://www.etch-a-sketch.com/assets/images/classic.gif
Was this she was referring to? ??? The Etch A Sketch?
Howard
Subject: Re: Drawing Apparatus
Written By: Davester on 08/08/04 at 6:23 pm
http://www.etch-a-sketch.com/assets/images/classic.gif
Was this she was referring to? ??? The Etch A Sketch?
Howard
Ah yes, the Etch-A-Sketch...had one of those, as well, but I think the thing mentioned here is a scissors-like contraption (excuse the non-scientific descrip) with a pencil in one end and a stylus at the other where one could trace, say, a picture from a girly Disney magazine with the stylus and the pencil-end would mark the exact same thing onto your paper. Theory seemed sound, practical result less-than-favorable.