paper pot maker

As posted by another member here a few days ago:

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From: Mark Fitzsimmons - view profile Date: Wed, Nov 29 2006 5:43 pm Email: "Mark Fitzsimmons" Groups: rec.crafts.woodturning Not yet ratedRating: show options Reply | Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse | Find messages by this author

I found an easy to turn present I'll be making for my green thumb relatives:

newspaper seedling pot maker They also have a better picture at Lee Valley:

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Robert

Marty, I really suspect that there are no published plans for these. They are simple enough, though, that one or two experimental pieces should reveal all you need to know about sizes and shapes. Even unfinished, they should last a good long time. Run up a few spares and you should be set for life.

If I get my backlog of orders cleared (it's getting close, so close), I plan to fiddle around and figure out how to make these, myself. I don't think I could make them cheaply enough to sell them, but I garden organically and could use a couple for myself. Not only are they cheaper than pressed-peat pots, but if I run low, I can whip up more for little more than the time to cut a few strips and whack them with a mallet.

Before the fault finders chip in with their iffy chemistry, let me point out that the ink used by most newspaper publishers (and all the ones local to me) is no longer solvent based.

Bill