r ranson wrote:some small pottery or wooden chickens to pose with my yarn in photographs.
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Dale Hodgins wrote:Putting new handles on things. Quite often there are perfectly good shovels or other tools that are missing a handle. They can be obtained at every yard sale for a pittance. The beauty of this is that the difficult metal work is done, but the tool is completely useless until someone does a little bit of work. Then you have a saleable item. You don't even need to make your own handles. There are just as many perfectly good handles attached to broken metal bits. It's just a matter of swapping them out.
Dan Boone wrote:
r ranson wrote:some small pottery or wooden chickens to pose with my yarn in photographs.
Not germane to the thread but this triggered a childhood memory. 1976, Alaska, cabin, snowed in, 200 miles from the nearest mall, family of six, my mother is serving dozens of cookies a week and wants a cookie jar. She *made* one out of paper mache in the shape of a large chicken, starting with strips of newspaper soaked in glue that she wrapped around an inflated balloon. Painted it with acrylic paints. Named her (chicken was a hen) “Amanda Pea”. Big cookie jar, held four dozen cookies, was still in use (though beakless and combless and uncleanably filthy) when my dad passed a few years back.
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J Anders wrote:
Dale Hodgins wrote:Putting new handles on things. Quite often there are perfectly good shovels or other tools that are missing a handle. They can be obtained at every yard sale for a pittance. The beauty of this is that the difficult metal work is done, but the tool is completely useless until someone does a little bit of work. Then you have a saleable item. You don't even need to make your own handles. There are just as many perfectly good handles attached to broken metal bits. It's just a matter of swapping them out.
Do you actually sell tools like this? I don't have much of a market in my area for tools like this, I don't think, unless I were to sandblast and repaint them. I have thought about doing that though.
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