moehawk
I'll Lock Up
- Messages
- 5,826
- Location
- Northern California
Sometimes inpiration for improvised tools comes from unlikely places. Such as the other day, in the toy store with my little 7 year-old niece. She had just launched into a spiel about why I should buy her the must-have thing that day, a brick of air-dry modeling clay. "But Uncle, I can make so many cool things with it"....and the idea as born. I grabbed a block of Fimo Soft for myself (yes, she got her toy too) and set to work once I got home. I found a piece of metal trim with a nice angle in it lying in the shop, rolled out a worm of clay, pressed it into the angle to shape it and baked it. Let it cool, it set and was still flexible enough to bend over my block.
Behold! The Optimoe.
Not bad for being inspired by a second-grader.
Behold! The Optimoe.
Not bad for being inspired by a second-grader.
Last edited: