Scroll trough this:
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1&biw=1429&bih=853&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=v3-aW5KtKNCczwKy96j4DQ&q=wooden+piggy+banks&oq=wooden+piggy+banks&gs_l=img.3.0.0j0i7i30j0i24.9120.10503..11401...0.0..0.57.337.7......0....1..gws-wiz-img.......0i7i5i30j0i8i7i30.J8PAcvdP6Dc

You will have problem to choose one

 

I get some of my inspiration and ideas from Pinterest
then fine tune it to suit my application.

 

This is like what I'm wanting to make:

 

I hadn't planned on putting a plug in the bottom - and then using screws to attach the acrylic to the sides [so to get it out, you unscrew the side].

 

My grandpa made a bunch of those types of banks. He screwed the plexi glass to each side of the banks. I still have them and they're probably 35 yrs old now.

 

My grandpa made a bunch of those types of banks. He screwed the plexi glass to each side of the banks. I still have them and they re probably 35 yrs old now.

- Steve

Yeah that was my plan - to just screw the plexi to the sides. Debating if I want to put the screw holes just outside the edges of the plexi to hold it by the edge - or drill through and secure it that way.

Either way if not careful I think the plexi will crack.

 

I made some of these, from Wood Magazine plan, many years ago

Issue 158 in 2004
https://www.woodstore.net/Money-hungry-Giraffe-Bank-p/gr-00427.htm?Click=46506

 

Instead of screws, I would cover each side with a thin slice of wood (1/8-3/16); then sand to blend the sides to the body.

 

Take a look here it may be of interest

https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/108398
https://www.lumberjocks.com/robscastle/blog/41808