标题: You’ll Wonder How You Managed Without the Wood Ranger Power Shears [打印本页] 作者: LeliaJenne 时间: 前天 07:22标题: You’ll Wonder How You Managed Without the Wood Ranger Power Shears
The icepicks I used as a boy cost all of ten cents apiece in Woolworth's. That they had low-cost cylindrical handles of purple-painted wooden, they have been perhaps nine inches lengthy overall, and so they weighed only 4 ounces or so. An accurate flip-and-a-half throw outdoors was just doable, if there was no cross-wind. They were hard to control in a full-flip throw because most of the little weight that they had was in the handle. Indoors, within the cramped area of my bedroom, a half-turn throw was good. Nowadays, icepicks are made with short, stout handles mounting a metallic pommel cap for shattering icecubes. Picks of this design are throwable, though the balance is so grossly handle-heavy that they take some getting used to. A heavier icepick-like system, offered to housewives as a "gap-making tool" (that's, an awl), should flip up in your hardware retailer often; look in the housewares department. This is a straightforward, robust device about nine inches lengthy.