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Your piece of wood should be thin enough that it bends easily, but is not floppy. A sturdy wooden yardstick can work, but you'll probably want to cut it shorter. If you are using a softwood like pine, 1/4-inch thick by about 3/4-inch wide will provide plenty of spring. File a notch in each end of the wood, as shown. The notch should be about 1/2-inch v\dde, or as wide as the bowstrings will be. Drill a small hole in one end of the wood. Tie the fishing line through the hole. Start wrapping the line around the wood, the long way. When you wrap the line, keep it taut, with the bow slightly bent.
As you wvajp, move from one side of tihie notches to the other. After you have vsnrapped one layer of line, apply glue to the two ends of the wood where the line wraps around. Apply enough to soak through the line to the wood. Continue wrapping so that each successive layer is submerged in glue. After you have built up a sufficient mass of line?about three layers?pass the end through the hole, tie it off, and add a litde glue for good measure.
Before the glue dries, wedge some small pieces of wood between the bow and the bowstring at one or both ends so there will be more clearance. Pieces of wooden pencils
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work well for this. Add more glue so these will be more likely to stay in place. Now set the bow aside so the glue can dry completely.
Apply rosin to the strings, liberally. Try to avoid touching the strings; finger oil will prevent rosin from sticking or defeat the extra friction of the rosin, which is the whole point. Now play for us, won't you?
Phone Ocarina Handset from an old-school rotary-dial or push-button telephone Ingredients Hand drill with drill bits of a few different sizes
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1. Remove the cord from the handset.
2. Unscrew the mouth- and earpiece covers, and remove all the entrails: speaker, microphone, wires, plug jack and any pieces of foam. Save these for other projects, of course.
3. Drill eight or fewer holes along the spine of the handset. Start at the mouthpiece end, where the jack is, and drill progressively larger and more wddely spaced holes down the length of the handset. Don't go so large that you can't cover a hole with one finger.
4. Replace the mouthpiece cover on the end with the empty jack hole. If you like, replace the earpiece.
5. To play your homemade ocarina, seal off the little holes in the mouthpiece cover with the palm of one hand. Blow across, not into, the cord hole, just as you would blow across the mouth of a bottle. You can generate different notes by covering and uncovering different finger holes.
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i) Walk into a fast food franchise, ask for a drinking straw, buy nothing.
2) With a pair of scissors, make two slices in one end of the straw to form a point like this: =!====>
3) Pinch the side of the straw near the other end and cut a hole in it?it doesn't have to be round, but your finger has to fit over it to close it completely.
4) Repeat step three a bit higher.
5) Repeat again until you don't want any more holes, or you run out of fingers or space on the straw.
6) Roll your lips into your mouth to cover your teeth.
7) Put the pointy end of the straw in your mouth.
8) Cover aU the holes with your fingers.
9) Blow into the straw and wiggle your fingers!
The Strax
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The diddley bow is a simple stationary instrument that you can install anywhere you'd like to play. Drill a screw into the top and the bottom of a wall, door, or tabletop. Tie a guitar string or some similarly strong whe to both screws. Wedge pieces of wood under the string at both ends so the string becomes tight. Move the wood bridges closer to the screws to increase tension on the string. You can play a diddley bow with a pick, changing notes by holding a chunk of metal or glass against the string hke a slide.
Diddley Bow
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Newspaper Wraps
Ingredients Newspaper wrappers
Optional Materials Newspaper dispenser key
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