Posts for October, 2009

October 30, 2009

Does anyone have any insights they can offer for making wind chimes?

I want to make wind chimes as a project that I can give to friends and family and eventually sell to the local outdoors centers in my area. I’m looking to make chimes that are made of copper, stainless steel, aluminum, etc. I’m looking for deep resonating sounds and unique designs. All [...]

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how do i cure bamboo to use in wind chimes to avoid rot?

i have giant bamboo trees and would like to use it for several projects but havent found how to cure it so it wont rot
here is one way http://www.wikihow.com/Cure-Bamboo

Here is one more http://www.ehow.com/how_4812295_cure-bamboo.html

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October 20, 2009

Spring

September 2007
Duration : 1 min 53 sec

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October 19, 2009

How can we repair weathered bamboo wind chimes?

We recently moved into a house we are renting, and the previous owners left TONS of garden statues, tools, and miscellaneous decorations in the backyard. We threw most of the stuff away, but my husband wants to keep the Bamboo Wind Chimes we found. They have been hanging in the sun for a very long [...]

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October 17, 2009

Chimes of Freedom

Bruce Springsteen, Tracy Chapman, Sting
(1988)
Duration : 5 min 15 sec

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October 16, 2009

The Gentle Llama

Animal World – Episode 495,
The Gentle Llama,
Air date: January 22, 2008 (AW – 20080122)
Duration : 15 min 10 sec

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October 11, 2009

For whom the UT Tower bells toll

http://wwww.utexas.edu/
Carillonneur Tom Anderson has been making campus life more musical since 1967.
Duration : 6 min 52 sec

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October 1, 2009

How can I melt down copper pipe?

A friend gave me some extra copper pipe that he had from a job and I decided to melt it down and make a decorative wind chime for my grandmother
My question is.. how can I get a heat source to melt down copper? The material has a melting point of almost 1100 degrees Celsius. [...]

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