Small rolling pin?

[Hammers]

Has anyone come across a small rolling pin, diameter c:a 25 -35 mm (1-2 ins) to use for flattening epoxy putty? It needs to be more solid and smoother than a piece of wood dowel. Solid glass, marble, porcelain, stone or dense resin would be good.

[voltan]

are you not able to get hold of some acrylic rod(or do i mean perspex, ugh brain no work)? or a bit of brass tubing

[Plynkes]

Not being much of a one for fancy tools, when the situation calls for this kind of thing I just use the middle-sized one of my three X-Actos...



Much smaller than what you want, but it does the job. Guess it depends on just how much of the stuff you want to flatten.

[silvana]

I was thinking maybe you can use some stainless steel tubing.

[Sinewgrab]

Get a length of stainless tubing and a length of dowel that fits inside it and make one, would be my suggestion.

[dampfpanzerwagon]

Try a cake decorating shop - they are used for rolling out icing.

Tony
http://dampfpanzerwagon.blogspot.com/

[Zafarelli]

Small PVC drainpipe? Vallejo bottles might work, too.

[Hammers]

Thanks all. I ended up raiding a toy store for a toy rolling pin. Not ideal, I was looking for something heavier and smoother but one gracefully has to make do...