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On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 12:46:00PM -0700, Linda Hendrickson wrote:
> Sponsored by TWIST - Tablet Weavers International Studies & Techniques
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> Michael wrote:
>
> >... we take perfectly good brand new decks of Bicycle cards and
> >chop them up, drill holes, and round off the corners to sell them...
>
> Could you give your advice about drilling holes in the tablets? I order
> 4-hole cardboard tablets in mass quantities (8,000 at a time) from a local
> printer, and John would like to drill extra holes in some of them for use
> with Andean pebble weave. He hasn't figured out how to do it so the holes
> are smooth, and so has been using a hole puncher whenever we get an order
> for a pack (one hole at a time -- so I guess it's good there's not much
> demand so far!). What's your secret?
>
Power tools. :)
I have a paper drill. It looks like new drills start at around $800 and
go way up from there. Used equipment should be much less dear. There seem
to be a number available on eBay.
One thing I had to do was make a jig to hold the cards in the right place,
as the normal positioning gear is aimed at drilling stacks of pages
rather than small bits like weaving tablets.
yours,
Michael
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