Absolutely no relation to bushcraft, but yesterday I tried paper quilling for the first time ever with an enjoyable hour long online workshop by The Quirky Quillers. Now I need some more paper strips in better colours. 
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Sounds like my kind of arts class!
I did loads of papercrafts (origami, cutting snow flakes, weaving baskets and other things, building stuff etc) when I was a kid, but for some reason never quilling.
I bought one of those lethal without care old fashioned school guillotines thirty years ago. I still use it to make strips for quilling.
That said, The Range has a really good set of both tools and strips for under six pounds just now. I bought it just to have a new form maker, but it's well worth the money.
They also sell packs of strips for a pound. Much cheaper than anywhere else I've found.
That said, The Range has a really good set of both tools and strips for under six pounds just now. I bought it just to have a new form maker, but it's well worth the money.
They also sell packs of strips for a pound. Much cheaper than anywhere else I've found.
We did one based around a particular style if weaving of straw. Wheat straw not plastic ones. You could make it wider or narrower diameter doing it. I think it's like corn dolly's but we did other things with it. Kind of a rural, pagan hang up I think because apparently they were linked to CoE church festival. I think it was actually a cubs activity based in the huge church hall. Those straw weaving I'm certain were pagan in origin! Supposed to be good luck when hung in your house.
The church hall was twice the size of our primary school hall which could fit over a hundred chairs in it. A full sized permanent stage too that was probably as big at stages of a lot of provincial theatres! I suspect the village was not far off the wickerman village at times! Lol!
Our work has hand guillotines that could cut a metre wide and 50mm thick roll of material. The blade had no guard and could be taken off for sharpening. Once off you had a very big chopper albeit with a bolt hole at the end. It cut through anything from paper through mineral and glass mat to steel fibre.
It got scrapped as there was no guarding and we had a big push on guarding and preventing people getting to the parts of machinery that could hurt them if we didn't guard our interlock the access to them. I'm sure ppl on here would be less bothered in that way and could have found a use for it safely.
It got scrapped as there was no guarding and we had a big push on guarding and preventing people getting to the parts of machinery that could hurt them if we didn't guard our interlock the access to them. I'm sure ppl on here would be less bothered in that way and could have found a use for it safely.
So many good tools totally scraped because the terminally idiotic couldn't be bothered to learn how to use them safely.....my guillotine also has no guard.
I haven't cut myself once with it in over thirty years.
I haven't cut myself once with it in over thirty years.
Oh we had factory inspector pay attention to us after an accident. A reportable accident, nobody physically hurt but was off for quite some time due to close encounter. Result was the inspector went through everything with a literal application of the regulations. Our own fault, we did things as a company the old ways wrt H&S. Everything got guards or interlocking cutoffs. The guillotines they put away and developed better production methods that were more efficient anyway. 20 parts in the time of one part with the guillotines.
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