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Title: Coffee Stirrers -- for planking
Post by: warrenpeace on 01 April 2008, 02:43:17 AM

Found a source for those thin wooden coffee stirrers that some people might want to use for planking (on ships, old west buildings, etc.):

http://www.goldmax.com/App/stb.products.asp?cid=7

Title: Coffee Stirrers -- for planking
Post by: Deathwing on 01 April 2008, 04:06:36 AM

You could also just nick them from Starbucks.  :)

Joey

Title: Coffee Stirrers -- for planking
Post by: Glitzer on 01 April 2008, 05:34:07 AM

bought a pack of 1000 some time ago, no idea where it is right now...

I still plank with cardboard.

Title: Coffee Stirrers -- for planking
Post by: bandit86 on 01 April 2008, 05:58:29 AM

Thanks I have been looking for them.  But I'll still try to find them free and scoff them :)

Title: Coffee Stirrers -- for planking
Post by: Wirelizard on 01 April 2008, 07:28:40 AM

It's getting harder to find the wooden ones around here. Too many places use the brown plastic ones, it seems...

Title: Coffee Stirrers -- for planking
Post by: fastolfrus on 01 April 2008, 08:52:50 AM

Luckily there are still wooden ones around here. Almost as if plastic hasn't reached some parts of Yorkshire :~}

Title: Coffee Stirrers -- for planking
Post by: Captain Blood on 01 April 2008, 10:00:24 AM

Yep, I pocket a fistful every time I go into a coffee shop! Have quite a big bag of them now. Very useful for trench revetments and small beams on timber framed buildings!  8)

Title: Coffee Stirrers -- for planking
Post by: dusser on 01 April 2008, 10:53:50 PM

My wife used to work in a coffee shop, so I always got free coffee and handfuls of terrain building supplies when I'd visit her.   :D

Title: Coffee Stirrers -- for planking
Post by: Antenociti on 16 April 2008, 01:58:23 PM

One of these is a good investment: (http://www.barrule.com/Workshop/images/products/Master%20aircrew%20balsa%20stripper/balsastripper.jpg)

its an american thingie called a "balsa stripper". (company is "Master Airscrew")

you use it to cut same-width stips of wood off sheets.

So take a sheet of balsa or basswood, turn the dial until you've got the thickness youw ant, then run it own the side of your sheet of wood - voila! one strip of wood.

Obviously this lets you replicate that strip size over and over again. Its also graduated so that you measure extremely accurately the width you want to cut - one turn of the screw is 1/32 of an inch.

Possibly in my top10 of all time great tools for modeling. it can also cut foamboard and light foams, thin styrofoam, expanded PVC and similar.

cant recommend it enough.

Title: Coffee Stirrers -- for planking
Post by: twrchtrwyth on 16 April 2008, 03:43:44 PM

Quote from: "Antenociti"

One of these is a good investment: (http://www.barrule.com/Workshop/images/products/Master%20aircrew%20balsa%20stripper/balsastripper.jpg)

its an american thingie called a "balsa stripper". (company is "Master Airscrew")

you use it to cut same-width stips of wood off sheets.

So take a sheet of balsa or basswood, turn the dial until you've got the thickness youw ant, then run it own the side of your sheet of wood - voila! one strip of wood.

Obviously this lets you replicate that strip size over and over again. Its also graduated so that you measure extremely accurately the width you want to cut - one turn of the screw is 1/32 of an inch.

Possibly in my top10 of all time great tools for modeling. it can also cut foamboard and light foams, thin styrofoam, expanded PVC and similar.

cant recommend it enough.

Do you sell these? It's great by the way, thanks for sharing. 8)

Title: Coffee Stirrers -- for planking
Post by: zebcook on 16 April 2008, 07:08:19 PM

I get these from the local Michael's store.

http://www.michaels.com/art/online/displayProductPage?productNum=kd0331

Title: Coffee Stirrers -- for planking
Post by: Gluteus Maximus on 19 April 2008, 05:58:55 PM

You can get them here:

http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/mas/masma4000.htm

$5.39 plus overseas shipping via UPS. Might be worth ordering direct from the good old US of A?

Sadly nothing on Ebay  :(