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Rene Roberts Monday, May 03, 1999
   
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    Lest you all think I do nothing but collect weird containers, I
    have to redeem myself and share a really nifty gadget I just
    learned about today. It is a Japanese tool used somehow in
    bookmaking (purchased in a Bay Area store which specializes in
    paper and bookmaking), and consists of a VERY sharp tiny steel
    tube (the ID looked to be the equivalent of about 18 ga wire)
    attached to a bamboo holder. It is used to punch neat tiny holes
    in paper. Simply placed the tube on the paper and gently rotate.
    There is an enlarged hole on the side of the tube that all the
    paper "dots" eventually fall out of. This little tool was a joy
    to play with. What a friend uses it for is to make clean holes
    in earring cards. They are the perfect size for earwires. The
    metal use that also comes to mind ismaking perforated pieces of
    leaf or foil for kum boo, or even using the gold dots that
    eventually fall out of the tube for some purpose. 

Of course, one must have some kind of container to put all those dots into=
 . .
. .

Rene Roberts




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