I have found that making a paper template of the small area, say between buildings or between a roadway and sidewalk, then transfer this to a piece of plastic (like a page protector sheet) where you make a puddle of glue in the same shape, put your static grass down and allow the glue to dry. You can tape the plastic sheet to a baking sheet or metal pan.
Then you peel this up and stick it down to the terrain you want to cover. Kind of a custom-made "tuft".
I've done this in a few areas with success. I slightly dampen the ground area with wet water. This softens the glue under the tuft a bit also place a little fresh glue under the tuft before working it in place.
This also keeps stray static grass from sticking to the brick work of the nearby structures.
Just an option —
Good Luck, Ed
I made one with ABS pipe and it worked great between things. I may make one with a really small pipe as this one worked so well.
A $4.00 flyswatter and the rest from the junk drawer in 10 minutes.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
How about a small metal funnel?
I have built your standard applicator but on new layout I will have some spots where they where they will not fit. I want to build one as just a wand. On the others I have built they were powerfull enough thast you didn't even have to use the sieve, I could just throw down fibers and run the applicator close to the fibers and they stood right up and stayed. Used to on occasion run it back and forth and watched the fibers follow the sieve. So my idea is to make a wand the same way, just need to fiqure out what to make the wand out of, do you think it will work?