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Create a guitar pick grabber

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I began with the idea of making a small flexible guitar pick grabber for my daughter. I thought of layering sugru around a wax tea candle as a core that I could melt out thru a slit opening I made when the sugru was cured. It was messy, but it worked and the second version - even better! I punched a hole at each end of the slit to provide a way for the spreading force to radiate outward instead of tearing along the same line. I made a tail section for a tether hole. This small project allowed me to put Sugru to the test and I came out smiling at what I had learned and about the spinoff of new ideas it produced. Call me strange, but I like the testing part as much as finding practical applications for what I've learned. Here are some of the things I've learned:

Melted wax is pretty messy, so I came up with a better way to create a cavity within sugru allowing removal of its contents with barely any mess.

Sugru is the stuff many of my best ideas are made of!

Even with the holes for the slit I made tearing did occur. I needed something flexible yet resistant at the extremities to resist tearing. My first attempt failed, but I have found the perfect material and using it has brought on a watershed of applications and ideas.

I learned how to obtain a better uniformity for the layering on of sugru and have a new one in the works. Maybe we could develop this one together.

Knowing exactly how much sugru I'll need for any given project before I begin is important and I have learned how find that out through this experiment.

I hope to be able expand on all this soon.