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[Cob] cobber's thumbsShannon C. Dealy dealy at deatech.comTue May 3 12:02:00 CDT 2005
I'm not sure about this whole concept of "making" cobber's thumbs, personally, when I need one (and my thumbs won't do), I just grab the nearest stick (usually dead fall from nearby trees, or remnants from clearing the building site) that's about 1" in diameter, whack off about a one foot length with a machette, grab it in the middle, and start using it. every once in a while when it starts looking kind of pointy (the cob will grind it into a pointed tip over time), I grab the machette whack off the tip and keep using it (you really want a blunt tip so that the straw fibers will get pushed into the layer below, a pointed tip will be more likely to go between the fibers without really interlocking the layers). When the stick gets to short, I find another one. FWIW. Shannon C. Dealy | DeaTech Research Inc. dealy at deatech.com | - Custom Software Development - | Embedded Systems, Real-time, Device Drivers Phone: (800) 467-5820 | Networking, Scientific & Engineering Applications or: (541) 929-4089 | www.deatech.com
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