Saturday, August 11, 2012

New Toy


Birthday present from the husband. Could it be because I've been nicking tools from his stash and hiding them under my sewing table, along with his entire drill bit collection so he can't find them? Anyway, now I have a hand-held, rechargeable electric saw. Although I still have a serious crush on the old manual handsaw hanging on the garage wall. Either way, LiEr now has her very own powered serrated blade. Ooooooo. Look out, world.

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  1. Ahhhh... awesome! That should save on the shoulder, huh? Watch out, cardboard, here she comes!!

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    1. Yes, but this isn't for cardboard!! Stay tuned!

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  2. I have an unrelated question for you. My next door neighbor brought over a HUGE cardboard tube from (I think) a carpet roll. I didn't even ask for it, but I couldn't refuse when she offered it to me. I have no idea what to do with it! So, what would you do with such a monster?

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    1. Ulrike, believe it or not, nothing especially exciting is coming to mind right now. A HUGE cardboard tube is fabulous, I know, but all that I can think of is "tunnel" because I suspect it's also very thick and hard to carve into, which limits what you could do to alter it too much. How wide is its diameter? What about treating it as you would a log, and cut it up (use a saw) and build with it like with logs? An outdoor swing? A fake raft? Or saw it into short lengths (if it's very wide) and turn it into stools (top it with a disc of some sort, like an old circular lid. Whatever you eventually do with it, come back and share it here, OK?

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    2. I vote for getting yourself a new toy like Lier's and cutting it up. How about these ideas - https://pinterest.com/pin/34973334577289432/ and https://pinterest.com/pin/34973334575835849/ ?? Otherwise, a tunnel slide perhaps?

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    3. It's only about 6" in diameter, and the cardboard is very thick and dense. A raft could be fun, and simple!

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  3. Women with power tools - look out indeed! :-D

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  4. I have been collecting power tools these days too. It really makes things so much easier. My personal favorite is the miter saw.

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  5. Happy Birthday! That's my kind of birthday present too - I can just picture it gliding through cardboard for you.

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  6. Cardboard Bicycle by Izhar Gafni:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txSboSNQINs
    Enjoy !!!

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    1. Beyond awesome! I want to build workable cardboard things like that! Thanks for sharing.

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  7. The classic thing to do with those carpet tubes is to turn them into tree trunks. Either palm trees for a luau or evergreen trees for Xmas decorating. They also make excellent reinforcing for *large* cardboard structures, and are useful as chutes or tracks for toy race cars or Rube Goldberg machines.

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  8. Wow, I'm curious to see how this would work on cardboard watermelon boxes! I have tried using a power tool similar to the one that doctor's use to cut casts. It works pretty well, but eats the cardboard on the edges. Last weekend my dad used a circular saw to make a chicken feeder out of a cardboard tube, but it ate the edges as well, let us know if this one is any cleaner?

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    1. I never thought to use this on cardboard. Maybe I should, though, just to see how it cuts. For cardboard, I have my eye on electric scissors (haven't got it yet, though). Have you tried those?

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  9. Funny how we all just assumed this little saw was meant for your cardboard projects! :) I've used a chopsaw on carpet-roll cardboard tubes, by the way, and other pressed cardboard like the corner reinforcement pieces used in large appliance boxes, and it works nicely. But I don't think I've ever used a power saw on corrugated cardboard. You could probably get a clean cut if you sandwiched the cardboard between some scraps of plywood or other sheet stock...but not sure it's really worth it when a utility knife is simpler and effective.

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