{"id":1653,"date":"2015-03-16T18:16:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T17:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2015-03-16T18:16:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T17:16:22","slug":"timber-wagon-loads-from-coffee-stirrers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1653","title":{"rendered":"Timber Wagon Loads from Coffee Stirrers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While at a recent show (O gauge North West at Manchester I think) I noticed a demo of a Gent making a timber load from strips of Microstrip which looked quite interesting. It gave me an idea for a use for a box of coffee stirrers that I bought from eBay a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Before seeing the demo to make such a stack of timber I would have cut some coffee stirrers to length and then glued them all together into a stack. What this gent did was make a hollow stack with short pieces in place at the ends. In terms of what I planned it would not only use less coffee stirrers but also allow me to make use of the cut rounded ends which would otherwise be surplus.<br \/>\nI started by using a 7mm scale rule and a square to cut 14 stirrers to a scale 16\u2019 long (they were a scale 20\u2019 overall allowing for 2\u2019 to be cut from each end. These were then stuck together 2 high by 7 wide to make a base. To glue them together I used Crafters Pick PVA superglue. This is much thicker than normal PVA and gives a good grab for all sorts of things.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1657\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0014.jpg\" alt=\"Timber wagon load from Coffee Stirrers\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0014.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0014-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0014-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNext using the cut rounded ends and some lengths of some sticks that were not straight\/flat I built up the ends and some inner supports<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1655\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0010.jpg\" alt=\"Timber wagon load from Coffee Stirrers\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0010.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0010-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1656\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0012.jpg\" alt=\"Timber wagon load from Coffee Stirrers\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0012.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0012-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0012-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally finishing with a lid the same as the base.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1658\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0015.jpg\" alt=\"Timber wagon load from Coffee Stirrers\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0015.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0015-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0015-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1659\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0016.jpg\" alt=\"Timber wagon load from Coffee Stirrers\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0016.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0016-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0016-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1654\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0018.jpg\" alt=\"Timber wagon load from Coffee Stirrers\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0018.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0018-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The stirrers that I used for this trial scale out at 11\u201d wide boards and I plan to make some more with smaller scale boards using the same techniques but scoring the top boards and the ends to represent narrower finished boards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While at a recent show (O gauge North 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