Category Archives: hobbies
How To Grow Fish Bait At Home With No Effort
Growing meal worms at home for fishing bait is easy with this method…
How To Make Jewelry From 'Ordinary' Treasures
Almost everyone has a box of sparkling old buttons from Grandma’s sewing chest to marvel at, or set of dominoes, checkers or mahjong pieces rescued from a flea market. Maybe they have a partial Scrabble game and perhaps even a collection of colorful, fifty-one-to-a-deck playing cards purchased at an antique store tucked away in a drawer. Gather your treasures together and make yourself some awesome jewelry or start earning extra income now!…
Posted in gifts, hobbies, how to, jewelry
Tagged bangles, beads, bracelets, broch, business enterprise, buttons, craft, craft fairs, fashion shows, fastenings, festivals, gifts, glue gun, hobby, home based business, jewelry, jewelry parties, necklace, net working, part time sales, sales
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How To Make Your Own Plastic Molded Objects
A plastic which is particularly adaptable for making molds and light castings requiring tensile strength but with a very clear outline, and which is used for making ornaments and novelties is made simply by…
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Tagged electroplating, molds, plastic models, plastic molded, plastic statues, Sulpho-Plastics
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How To Make Lamps And Vases From Bottles
Here’s two easy methods to make lamps and vases from bottles…
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Tagged craft, glass, glass bottles, glass cutting, glass lamps, glass vases, hobby
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How to catch more and bigger fish
Let’s face it, fishing brings out the hunter gather in us. As a hunter you always want to be able to boast about the biggest size and greatest amount of fish caught to another fisher devotee and as a gatherer you want to be able to bring home more decent sized fish with which to feed your family. Either way the goal is to catch more and bigger fish. Following are 10 good tips to do raise your fishing quota…
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Tagged bait, bass, bigger fish, black bass, bluegill, catching fish, crappie, fishing, fishing line, outdoors, white bass
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Ways of finding Silver Coins
Only coin collectors know about this; but you can still find 40% silver-clad half dollars in circulation today. Here is how…
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Tagged coin, coin collectors, coins, collecting, collectors, red book, silver coins
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How to make Rubber Molds
Before you can make plastic items, you must make a mold. A Rubber mold is the easiest type to make. Here’s how:
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Tagged gutta-percha, plastic models, rubber mold
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How to make a Flexible Mold Compound
This new mold material is much superior to ordinary gelatine (mold glue) and is very easily made. It does not shrink or dry out like ordinary casting gelatins. If made according to directions it will retain all its original qualities indefinitely, and can be re-melted when necessary.
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Tagged casting gelatins, flexible mold compound, gelatin, mold glue, mold making, molding, plastics
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Six Simple Plastics Formulas
Plastic compounds are heavily covered by patents and many are beyond the means for the small manufacturer to produce. Thereare, however, numerous plastic compounds that may be produced from common everyday substances without expensive equipment and which can be profitable to be used for making novelties of all kinds…
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Tagged plastics, plastics formulas, simple plastics formulas
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How to save on Holdright Liquid Cement
This is a simple alternative for a waterproof liquid cement…
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Tagged airplane dope, glue, liquid cement, waterproof glue
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