I told you last week about the young man with the toilet paper shells.
Well, he showed me a new idea he was using and it was, in my opinion,
ingenious. I'm sure some of you have already seen this, but I hadn't.
It seems to work well, even though it might seem like more work at
first. He had cut coffee bean sacks into like 7x10 sheets and simply
pasted the two turns of burlap around the shell,. He had these little
Dollar Store shears (which are supposed to be able to cut a penny) and
he snipped the over-hanging burlap so it would lie down around the
time fuse and also the bottom. He used then two turns of what appeared
to be pasted liquor bag paper. When dry, he uses another liquor bag as
his outer wrap to hold the lift.
I have spent many, many years practicing the art and science of large
canister shell building. We don't vary our materials or techniques
much. There are very few areas within which we experiment, as the
proven methods always prevail. Yet, what has caught my interest lately
has been Kevin's experiments with household items; trash per se.
Have any of you similar unusual methods?
Regards,
Regina
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