I use my bone folder for ALL parts of the process of making a box: burnishing the image, making sure glue sticks evenly when affixing paper to covers, folding logbook pages (say for my mini accordian-style ones). I just can't work without one and easier to handle than something as small as a coin (flattened or otherwise) or guitar pick.

If you don't know what I mean, here's a picture:

http://www.misterart.com/g1692/Lineco-Bone-Folders.htm

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I use my bone folder for ALL parts of the process of making a box

Hmmm that reminds me... I have a bone folder in my scrap booking supply drawers. **scrambling for the bedroom to get the wonderful miracle tool**

Tee (who loves using her supplies for something as cool as this)

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Hmmm that reminds me... I have a bone folder in my scrap booking supply drawers. **scrambling for the bedroom to get the wonderful miracle tool**

Tee (who loves using her supplies for something as cool as this)

see i thought this tool was pretty when i found it a few years ago and bought it to keep my hair up with...who thought it could ever have a useful purpose :)

kwm

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see i thought this tool was pretty when i found it a few years ago and bought it to keep my hair up with...who thought it could ever have a useful purpose :)

LOL

Ever the frugal one though, for anyone who wants a bone folder and can't get one yet, think headband, the wide plastic kind that many of us kept in our drawer for years. They are back in style now so you can get them at Dollar Tree, if you weren't thinking ahead 35 years ago. Break off the end, file smooth with that nail file that you forgot you had. No, the metal one, in the manicure kit that's at the back of the drawer in your bathroom. Yeah, that one.

Certainly not as comfortable as the one that pre is talking about, but nearly instant bone folder. OH, and do the same with the other side and you have one to give to a friend as a gift. oooh or you could do two handed bone folding if you are really ambitious. **nodding**

Tee

Ok, now I have an image of kwm that looks something like this:

http://h1.ripway.com/goldentreasures/ColorBooks/cb0569-63-5-flintstone.jpg

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pre

actually thats nearly accurate :)
...well minus the red hair (eaisly fixed)....i get bored in class and thus wah-la! new hair style!...

kwm *pondering re-dying to match bam-bam....cause how it is the "in" thing*

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for anyone who wants a bone folder and can't get one yet, think headband, the wide plastic kind that many of us kept in our drawer for years.

wow! such a clever clever idea!!love it.
thank you!!

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why does the penny/nickel need to be flattened?

Flattening the coin makes it a larger surface area, so easier to hold onto, and more surface for the burnishing. It also makes the edge thinner, sharper, more "knife-like" which I like for rubbing. The flattened coin is also useful for getting the price stickers off of books and stuff. I used it alot during the holiday season for this purpose.

-amanda from seattle

I use a burnishing tool from Tandy Leather. I looks like a tiny spoon with a longer handle.

Shiloh

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Having the pre-cise tool is really important, I agree!
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Oh! Oh! Oh! Where are you getting dinosaur coins??!! My five year old daughter wants to be a palentologist and LOVES all things dinosaurs...
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Oh! Oh! Oh! Where are you getting dinosaur coins??!! My five year old daughter wants to be a palentologist and LOVES all things dinosaurs...

I think the reference was to elongated coins (or the less fussy name: squished pennies)-- the souvenirs that you can make out of pennies with those machines in just about any touristy place? Dinosaur ones could probably be found at any sort of museum with a dinosaur display or anything like that. Or you can skip the trip and buy them here for a lot more than the 50 cents apiece they'd cost you to get in person:

http://www.pressedpenny.com/dinosaurs.php

Tdyans (who dreams of someday visiting the Squished Penny Museum in DC)

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wow!
i was kind of kidding, haven't made a squished penny in (oops) years, hope i'm not showing my age!!!

oops messed up the quote UGH!

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Oh! Oh! Oh! Where are you getting dinosaur coins??!! My five year old daughter wants to be a palentologist and LOVES all things dinosaurs...

You could come on down to Raleigh,NC. My daughter made a dinosaur penny at the natural science museum there. You could choose between several different dinosaurs.