DIY Cheeky Roses

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Then I cut the neoprene between the seams.




I only spilled a little of the contents. I bet this looks familiar now, doesn't it? I thought it would be sand, rock is heavy, dense material, right? Well, so is iron. This stuff looks like the spatter from welding or cutting. I don't know the name for this material, but it is easy to clean up with a magnet. And it's heavy. And it's a way to make money from what would otherwise be waste material. Kind of like the big bags of "free sawdust" I saw outside a local cabinetmaker's shop yesterday. (Yeah, I'm wondering what I can do with a few cubic yards of white pine sawdust... soil amendment?)




Here we see the beginning of the handle construction. I bound up the stems with tape and wire. You can see I tried to make the weight the core of the handle.




The length looks ok.