COFFEE STIRRERS

[Don Gilham]

Ross in the bottom of the pic is a wharf deck made from coffee stirrers (Dudley's handiwok) successfully stained with COLRON wood dye.

 

[bobg]

Cricky! can you still get that stuff? I haven't seen any for donks.

 

[steven large]

i use coffee stirrin sticks on my flat bed..using acyilla paint,..then rough it with sandpaper THEN varish with acyilla matt spray...

 

[Gizzy]

Has anyone tried staining these with real coffee?

I get mine from the waste bins on each table in Sheringham Station's cafe....

 

[Bram]

I stained mine with Colron wood dye with no problem (Costa & Mc D's)

 

[Glengrant]

where the heck do you get coffee stirrers from? I just use a teaspooon myself

 

[ntpntpntp]

where the heck do you get coffee stirrers from? I just use a teaspooon myself

Mac D's (not too many at a time tho!), eBay, cash-n-carry, office supplies.... all sorts of places.

 

[bazzer42]

Colron still available in the Forest of Dean but then we're still on food rationing here. Mixed with meths and lemonade it makes a passable aperitif, shaken not stirred (even with a wooden stirrer)
had always planned to use them so interesting that they may need paint rather than dye. Tempted to test a couple with a tin of dark oak.

 

[nimbus]

Read all the comments about painting coffee stirrers, but my query is how do you stick them together.
I made a fence out of them -just a normal fence for the side of the track, but I have stuck them with wood glue, Evostik PVA, and even super glue, but they still fall to bits in the weather. So now I am stuck, even if the stirrers are not!!!
Sorry about the italics, summats gone wrong. have hit a wrong key!!
Cheers
Clarry.

 

[Cyclone]

Stained some with creosote substitute, no problems.
What is this vinegar/wire wool brew business?

 

[dunnyrail]

The problem is that wood gets wet with the weather and most glues do not like this. Suggest that you do Mechanical as well as glue to hold things together. I would drill holes, put small brass nails through to join and bend them over on the side that you (hopefully) cannot see.
JonD

 

[korm kormsen]

where the heck do you get coffee stirrers from? I just use a teaspooon myself

errr... how do you flatten these teaspoons, before glueing them down?

furniturepolish works on stirres.
hot, dirty motor oil as well.
ink with alcohol does too, but not so good.
for mecanical connections the best i found are taxidermist nails. small, rusty and cheap.

 

[nimbus]

Alas JonD, I think you are probably right, trouble is this "fence" is about 5 feet long, with a stirrer every inch, so I will have to put in 120 pins, top and bottom. Could do with a mini nailgun!!
Good job I`m retired, and got nowt to do. So my kids tell me.
Cheers
Clarry.

 

[gregh]

I use old fashioned shoe polish. Brown or black, applied with the shoe shine brush. Here's a pic of my coal loader done this way.

 

[tramcar trev]

Yes the boot polish works well. I have seen a chaps paving similar to mine but instead of leaving it m
natural he went over it with Black boot polish sparingly applied and it look superb...

 

[Cyclone]

Not sure if it was here or elsewhere but to trimm your coffee stirers use a pair a secateurs. Works a beut.

 

[trammayo]

I have a purpose made set of cutting pliers for angles, etc - b++++y useless on stirrers and lollipop sticks, thats why I tried the secateurs (my station thread). Its very hard wood to cut and an anvil type cutter will not go right through. Also my method is ten times quicker Shear logistics