Coffee Stirrers -- for planking

[warrenpeace]

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

[Deathwing]

You could also just nick them from Starbucks.  

Joey

[Glitzer]

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

I still plank with cardboard.

[bandit86]

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

[Wirelizard]

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

[fastolfrus]

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

[Captain Blood]

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!  

[dusser]

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.  

[Antenociti]

One of these is a good investment:

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.

[twrchtrwyth]

One of these is a good investment:

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.

[zebcook]

I get these from the local Michael's store.

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

[Gluteus Maximus]

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