Painter's Pyramids

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Painter's Pyramids

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In the current Hartville Tool catalog, page 20, are Painters Pyramids, #30819 and 30823. These are plastic tetrahedrons that look to be about 1 1/4" on an (any) edge. They're intended to space an object up and away from a table so that painting can be done with minimal damage to a finished surface.

This would be a dandy thing in lieu of the various methods described for a fellow who was varnishing cabinet doors.

I don't normally enthuse over such a catalog, but these seem just the thing and quite clever.
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Image

Cute.

Although this made me laugh, as I thought it was a bit over dramatic:

If you've been doing the same thing with nasty boards and nails you can throw them out now.
... unlike the boards and nails, the pyramids are ... much safer. Imported


If you can't handle the dangerous boards and nails... what about the solvents and the mean, abrasive sandpaper? ;^)

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Well said Rachel. I have a really hard time paying good money for something that I can do for virtually nothing. Scraps of wood, boards with nails, scraps of UHMW plastic, rocks and just about anything works. Maybe I'm just a cheap skate.
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Hey! Who ya' callin' a cheepskate? I'm a cheeperskate than you! I've been trying to figger out how to make some of these but a tetrahedron is hard to jig. Using a square base, and incidentally, beating the patent/copyright, and would easier. Those finger grip holes are a nice touch.

I bet you could whack 'em out of PVC pipe.
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Quetzalsailor wrote:Hey! Who ya' callin' a cheepskate? I'm a cheeperskate than you!
Bah!!! There is no doubt that I am a cheaperskate than you. I wouldn't even consider buying a piece of PVC pipe to make them myself. I would use rocks first ;>)
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Who said 'buy'??? Scrounge is more like it.

Friend of mine needed a corrector weight to make a rudder-tiller assembly heavy enough to measure in for a Flying Dutchman regatta. He epoxied a rock onto the top. I'm not so sure just any rocks would do for you, unless your rock supply was serpentine (talc, soap stone, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpentine_group), so that it would not stick so well.
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I bet that epoxy cost him

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I did my cabinet doors last year and, lacking funds for painters pyramids, I went to the local Dollar Store and splurged on a sleeve of plastic shot glasses for a buck. All the rocks were under snow at the time... :) BTW, Lee Valley has them as well for any interested Canucks.
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I saw the pyramids at Home Depot, or Lowes the other day. Like $4.00 for a package of 4 or 6?
Makes sense to me if working with larger projects and don't want to have to sand out resting points, or drive nails thru plywood blocks only to step on them at some later date.....(don't ask).
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I thought these little pyramids were a nifty idea so I ponied up for a set. I still use them but I am not overwhelmed. Turns out that varnished wood is quite slippery and tends to move. This adds a degree of difficulty to varnishing that I am not quite ready for.
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