And this post, is some craft tools I made, some old, some recent.
( lucets )

There have been a few projects which have been incomplete, unfinished, or not even started. But I have finished three of them today!

( piccies and wordies )

Yeah, I made another lucet. This one is huge. It is also the prettiest by far. Made of 4.8mm copper wire (approx 3/16 of an inch); the handle is wrapped with brown leather. The handle is twice as long as it needs to be, because I basically didn't figure out how much wire I needed, I just cut a length and started working on it. I made five bends ( ( Read more... )

Today I made another lucet. I made it out of scraps of tiny pipe, and bits of craft sticks, and string, and hot glue. On the good side, the prongs were nice and round, and they were nicely spaced apart. On the bad side, the handle was very wide, too wide to turn comfortably with one movement. Grrr. Will I have to learn woodcarving to make the ( Read more... )

Late last night I made myself another lucet. This one was made of 2mm Aluminium wire, string, and black hot-glue. The string and hot-glue were for the handle, to build up around the wire handle. The lucet part was good, it was the shape I intended it to be, just a little wider than the fork, slightly bent out at the ends, parallel in the middle... ( Read more... )

Today I mutilated a fork. I turned it into a lucet.
( cut for rambling about lucets )