Thread: key ring shapes

Fellas, fellas!

You're not going about this the right way - adopt a typical retail marketing strategy: if you want to sell something that you know is just crap, you give it a fancy name and claim it's exotic, and they'll fight to buy it.

In this case, you can borrow a term used by us archaeologists - when we find fossilized crap, we call it "coprolites" (Greek kopros = dung + lithos = stone). So you just look around your back yard for some old hard ones, turn 'em into your favourite keyring shapes, polish 'em up, and tell the customers they are "rare and ancient coprolites from outback Australia" - bet you sell heaps!

I had a couple of ideas along that line, but with a more touristy angle. If you were to use Kangaroo droppings, you could call it Roo-Doo ear rings, or maybe Dingo-Doo Dangles?


Rick

Beat me to it, Rick. (Alaska)

http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=5910705

http://www.grizzlysgifts.com/catalog/category/28

Joe

Heres an old recipe for making petrified wood which might be another wrinkle for keychains etc.

I got it out of the book Mediaeval secrets which I should put on line as a free download coz theres lots interesting little tidbits in it.

Petrified Wood
Mix equal parts of gem salt, rock alum, white vinegar, chalk and Peebles' powder. After the mixture becomes quiet, put into it any wood or porous substance, and the latter becomes like stone.

The question is what is "Gem Salt" and "Peebles Powder"

Wouldn't happen to be "Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them" by any chance?

I think Peeble's Powder is one of the early skim milks, that he called "Instantized Milk Powder" (U.S. patent 2835586)...

Also, I believe that gem salt is just natural rock salt that has formed largish, well developed crystals.

nope its a lot older than that but its interesting that the recipe is in a few books almost word for word.

Gem salt is referred to in Italy but I think you're right its only rock salt.