Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
Jelloway Creek, OH - ELV 1,100 - Home of the Baltimore, Ohio & Wabash RR
TCA 09-64284
I was just thinking about this thread last night! Glad to see it again.
Chris
It seems to be a good time to revisit this thread. I made a Christmas tree sales lot using the instructions I found in the December 2004 issue of that other mag. I used coffee stirrer sticks, like the author did. If you don't have the issue, it looks like every Christmas tree lot you've seen--a crude frame nailed together out of 2x4s with trees leaning across it. The coffee stirrer sticks were leftover from my wife and I going out for coffee. Cost: $3.63 for the coffee. Well, that doesn't count the about 24 drops of super glue and the ink from my pen that I used to write "CHRISTMAS TREES" on the front. Call it $3.64.
The article suggested using Christmas village type trees, but I'm too cheap for that. I remembered Jim's trees so I dug this thread out. I changed out my furnace filter (great minds think alike, Dan), cut out some disks from it, made a really big mess from the dust, but the trees turned out OK. I used bamboo skewer sticks, the kind that come a hundred to a package for about a dollar. I knocked out four trees in about half an hour, counting the time it took to find my green can of Rustoleum. I figure the total cost is under $4, including the coffee.
BTW, Dan, the dust from the used furnace filter scattered when I hit it with the scissors. It ended up pretty much anywhere but on the tree. My advice: Wear old clothes and do the cutting outside. But it works, and since I'm a cheap er, uh, fellow... I like it.
Now I need to dig out the thread on posting pictures...
Thanks, Jim!
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
TCA#09-63805
QUOTE: Originally posted by FJ and G Question: Will a forest of these trees filter the air in your train room? [:D][:D][:D]
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