What's the weirdest tool you use?
My love affair with glaze continues, always. Check out these three pieces.... I'm still working on super low energy so staring off into glaze space suits me just fine.
Ohh, ahhh...... dreamy.....
In other news.... I was looking around my piles of mess today and I realized that I have an inordinate amount of cat and dog nail files that I pick up every time I go to the local Pet Smart. I've found that they work perfectly to quickly sand the ends of freshly cut ear wires or to smooth a rough edge of metal. They are fairly heavy duty so they hold up well and really do the trick.
What kind of odd things do you find yourself using in your craft?
Comments
Let me walk over and see what I can find that might be a little strange...
I used to have the best Banana Slicer ever-- now i have a butter slicer and an egg slicer. The banana slicer was better.
Lol about the pet nail files..
I use a la cross file for feet. yea i know bad images arise..but the sandy parts are stuck really well onto the plastic and there are 2 different grades course and fine on the same tool.
Warmly,
Leslie
CRAZY for the glaze in the first piece, but they're all glorious.
My very favorite tool (and I have two of them) is a very long, very thin rod of metal with a very sharp point on one end. I got them in a wooden box of tools I bought at an auction two decades ago, bidding just for the box, unaware it contained stuff. I use them for poking holes in earring cards, untangling chain, as a mandrel for winding wire when making small jump rings, as a chuck when I used a Dremel, pushing small pieces around, etc. Every once in a while, one of them goes missing and I practically sleep holding the other one to keep it safe.
BTW, my word verificaiton term is "pantlygo." (Oh, if only it were "pantyglo"!) As an editor, I find many of these near-words hilarious. Am considering keeping a list of them for naming my pieces. Would save time.