[quote=He works on old computers for friends now as a hobby and sometimes someone will give him an ancient one that has outlived it's usefulness. Old computers are a gold mine of jewelry making parts. I especially love old hard drives.
Lori[/QUOTE]
Unwanted monitor and tv glass is wonderful for beginners learning to facet. It is easy to work and the "BLING" is unsurpassable, and it is surprising everyone has a different colour to it.
I went to my local op shop, and bought a small wine rack (brand new, just unwanted by someone), it can hold 12 bottles for 5 dollars, it now holds my glass rods very nicely, I just group them together by colour, easy enough to match up that way.
Couldn't afford (and still can't) any of the brass presses. I wanted to flatten beads as evenly as possible, so again, my beloved op shop had an old metal cake serving spatula, I just put the bead on my graphite marver and carefully squash with said spatula.
As they say, necessity IS the mother of all invention!
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Brenda
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