My friend Bob Knetzger, who is a toy inventor and does amazing preliminary sketches of his creations, came across some hand-drawn plans for a prosthetic limb. He says:

While on my usual lunchtime walk last summer I saw this piece of paper on the ground and picked it up.

I love this drawing, obviously done by a young maker.

I don't know who [the kid] is but I like how s/he shows the tools and material needed for this project: wood, saw, glue and pensile (sic).

Draw the shape on the wood, then cut it out with the saw and glue it to the kid, replacing the missing hand!

I'll bet the person who drew this plays Minecraft!

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David LaFerriere's sandwich bag art

snagglepuss

I think that may well be the cheeriest amputee I’ve ever seen.
- Paul Renault
  
  He has Body Dysmorphic Disorder.
  
  And that chainsaw was his bestest Christmas present ever.
thaum

Why would he want to have a young sheep for a prosthesis?
- metacalifragilistic
  
  It’s elective surgery for kids who think they’ve lost their cuteness. I had a similar procedure done — a guinea pig was glued to my shoulder after reckless primary school instructors robbed me of my former ignorance.
Datavist

I’d love me some prosthetic lamb!
- http://www.xeni.net/ Xeni Jardin
  
  @thaum:disqus @Datavist:disqus Yep, i believe this was a typo. I’ve fixed it for Mark.
  - thaum
    
    Yeah, but I think the idea of prosthetic lambs is awesome regardless.
    - http://www.xeni.net/ Xeni Jardin
      
      I was really hoping this was a post about prosthetic lambs. I give that child like 2 out of 5 stars on yelp because their drawing of how to make a prosthetic limb is only a fraction of the awesomeness that a drawing of a prosthetic lamb would be.
      
      Prosthetic lamb sounds like a vegan meat. Maybe made from soy and gluten.
      - Jake0748
        
        Well, of course there would have to be a gluten-free version.
      - jimh
        
        Yes, I’ll have the prosthetic lamb schwerma please.
  - Datavist
    
    I not usually such a painful pedant as to point out typos but this one was just so dang cute.
Ashley Yakeley

“pensile”

Clearly a misspelling of “prehensile”, something you’d want in a limb.
- http://lemoutan.blogspot.com/ Lemoutan
  
  Though a lamb with prehensile attachments is not to be sniffed at either.
nixiebunny

That could save us a few thousand dollars.
xzzy

I just wonder if this is the wistful dream of some poor kid that doesn’t have right hand, or some kind of modern Geppetto who wants to replace his body parts with wood.

Or maybe it started out as a drawing that would get kids expelled from school these days, and when teacher came around the class to see what everyone was doing, a couple rapidly conceived edits changed the tone to something positive.
mocon

You want me to kickstart your prosthetic limb business and you can’t even spell “pencil”?
GeorgeMokray

http://youtu.be/PkmHfT_rDf8

Prosthetic finger and hand project, hat tip core77.com
jimh

Reminds me of Margot Tennenbaum.
sdmikev

You don’t gotta teach kids Occam’s Razor.. :)
http://twitter.com/Emojk CôMa

Is it time for my monthly shameless plug? Why, I think it is.

Plenty of found children drawing, love letters and embarrassing photos of people on http://www.finderskeepers.fr(this one would make a fine addition, btw)
- knoxblox
  
  Thanks for this. It reminded me of one of my favorite websites of all time, that I discovered a while back and hadn’t visited in a few years:
  
  http://foundmagazine.com/
  
  Same idea, but in English.
TheMudshark

Since you´re already in the woodshop how about a new set of wheels for the little rascal?

Found: a child's drawing for creating a prosthetic limb

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