You figure it out.

It would make a great Bangle holder.

-- Backer boards, stop blocks, build oversized, and never buy a hand plane--

Whilst I can’t imagine what it is that your dear lady wanted, what you have produced should be kept in a prominent position at home as a talking point for all who enter! It’s a well made thingy Thomas.

-- Harry, Western Australia

Looks good too. I can’t figure out how you would use this thingy or whatever she ordered but it should work just fine. I did design work for a bunch of years. I always told them if they don’t like it they should have brought me some solid ideas to work with. I think you have done a fantastic job making a thingy for whatchamacallits.

Grandpa, you got that one right! I’ve had to crawl under, over and around people to get at what they want in a product, sometimes. Then again, that can be the fun part. I design tools, and generally that’s pretty easy, because I usually only get the people telling me they need a tool to do “thus and such”, and I get to look at the problem in place, as it were. Then, I can make what is needed.

I remember having a trchnician that traveled a lot come to me and asked me to design him a device that would hold a densometer on a piece of verticle I-beam. He wanted it to be light because he had to carry it with him when he flew etc. Well, I got a drawing of the densometer (actually might have been on the CAD system by then) but we had that and we drew the I-beam. had a draftsman fill in the blanks. We used some aluminum chain we had in stock and notched some angle aluminum or something to hold the densometer. We brought him in and said how do you like that? Not what I had in mind. BOOM!! now tell me what you have in mind. I don’t think we ever fixed his problem because he wanted something and I don’t think he knew what he wanted. Enough of my rant for tonight.

An elegant solution! There’s no reason that a useful object shouldn’t have some eye appeal. I hope “the little lady” appreciates it.

-- JohnnyB - - Sometimes determination can substitute for skill.

A for effort Mr Tom, nobody else at work will have one! I bet when she takes it in you’ll recieve request for anything from pen holders to picnic tables.

-- bowtie,.....jus passin thru.... cccedar.com

Happy to report the thing was gone this morning when I got up. She either decided it would work or she was going to toss it out the window of the car. No!! she would never toss it, know her better than that.

Thanks for all the comments. Nice to hear I am not the only one that only gets a small part of what people really want. As Grandpa said I don’t think they really know themselves but it was fun trying to come up with something that I think will work.

The labels comes in rolls such as a roll of tissue paper. She can remove the dowels with the little knobs attached, put on a roll of labels and then if she puts it on the correct way where it feeds from the bottom of the roll it should roll off petty good without coming off the large dowel. Going to be interesting to see what she has to say this evening.

You guys have a great day. keep posting no matter how small or simple. Some times the best lessons are learned from the simple things.

-- Tom Godfrey Landrum South Carolina (tom@thcww.com) 864-384-4938

Prototypes, don’t necessarily have perfect as they are bridge to communication.

-- "ButI'mMuchBetterNow"

angle the dovels forward and pull the knop upwards
and you have an excelent TP holder for four rolles ready for the big picnic .. :-)

Dennis

A necklace holder for me! She should be ecstatic at this! I will take this with a wide smile in a heartbeat.

I think it would make a good donut froster ;-)

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence Wake Up America!! Please read; http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0

Four roll toilet paper holder?

-- Mike The Termite ~~~~~ Working safely may get old, but so do those who practice it.

Drill a few more holes in the dowels and you can hold even more lollipops :)

I’m as lost as you are but it looks like you did a great job. Perhaps you could post a photo of it with the labels on it?

-- Ian, Tennessee