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30th August 2013, 08:17 PM #1
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The humble clothespeg.
Years ago when I was studying sculpture at Uni I was mucking around with scale and everyday items. One of the items to come under scrutiny was the humble clothes peg. Made a few scaled up ones and quite a large one for kicks. For some reason they seemed to be popular. Can't quite put the finger on exactly why. Perhaps its just that they are a recognisable object and that scale draws more attention to them.
Anyway being a self employed woodworker its pretty nice to have a "bread and butter" line of items and funnily enough these pegs have become mine.
I sell them through various outlets and offer them in an array of sizes. The smallest ones which are about 8 times the size of a normal peg(volume wise) are inlaid with a rare earth magnet which makes them handy little numbers for sticking on the fridge to hold your bills etc.
The other sizes are really more sculptural although they are also functional as in they do actually work...yes the big ones do have a bite.
Developed a series of jigs to make the springs in house.
Have made hundreds and hundreds of them,probably even into the thousands now.
DSCF3334.JPGDSCF3329.JPG2 big pegs.jpg
Got a pretty tight quality control system in place so the rejects usually end up on ........the clothesline, which is handy if you live in a blustery environment like me.DSCF3332.JPG
Anyway hope this is of interest.
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30th August 2013, 08:40 PM #2
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Love 'em
It's interesting, as you say, take an ordinary object change it's scale and all of a sudden its a beautiful Sculpture.
Good Luck to ya, may you sell hundreds more.
Cheers
Steve
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30th August 2013, 09:53 PM #3
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Hate to think of the size of clothes you hang off the larger sizes of pegs. (Probably baby socks!)
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30th August 2013, 10:56 PM #4
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I love this sort of stuff, take an everyday, recognisable item and turn it into a functional piece of art.
If you could do me a favour, in the first photo, could you please give me a sense of size? Is there a normal size peg in amongst that lot?-Scott
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30th August 2013, 11:45 PM #5
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Hi Scott, in the first photo that peg in the foreground about one quarter of the way in from the left bis a normal sized one that you would buy from a supermarket in a packet of 50 or so.
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30th August 2013, 11:47 PM #6
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Cheers, thank you. Originally Posted by artful bodger
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31st August 2013, 12:03 AM #7
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I like the huon one and also the Tassie Myrtle
good idearegards
Nick
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31st August 2013, 12:25 AM #8
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Outside the square can be amazing at times, well done
Regards Rumnut.
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31st August 2013, 07:17 PM #9
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Yeah I really like the look of this. Excellent to have a side line business and even better to allow us the ability to throw in a pun of two.
What do you mean you can't see the clothes line from the pegs?
Employer speaking to maid.
Employer; "When you hang the clothes out please do not drag the pegs along the grass."
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