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| | | Has anyone made bookends using LEGO bricks? I wonder how thick/big/heavy they have to be in order to work nicely? In terms of "real" bookends I've only had luck with marble or stone bookends -- even wood tends to be too light. But LEGO brick (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.fun.crafts)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO brick bookends —Eric Kingsley
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| | | | | (...) I havn't tried it but my guess would be that it would be too light just using bricks. You could try a couple of things I can think of off the top of my head. 1. Use a heavy object (A real brick?) surrounded by LEGO bricks to add weight. 2. Or (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.fun.crafts)
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| | | | | | | Re: LEGO brick bookends —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Hey -- wot about those "weight" bricks that they sell (or once sold) with the Boats sets? I think they're 2x6x2 or 2x8x2 or something like that and they're pretty heavy, and they're "real LEGO." (...) I could live with that. (...) I think LEGO (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.fun.crafts)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LEGO brick bookends —Eric Kingsley
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| | | | | | | (...) Here's another thought along those lines. What about using one of the new "LEGO Soft" Bricks to create a mold? They have them down at TCS now and they look pretty cool. They are soft and not very heavy on their own but I think they are about (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.fun.crafts)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LEGO brick bookends —Alan Gerber
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| | | | | | | (...) Yeah, 2x6x2, and you can order them from Pitsco. I won't even try to get a Url, since pitsco store urls are so long. Alan (24 years ago, 26-Jun-00, to lugnet.fun.crafts)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LEGO brick bookends —Justin Husman
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| | | | | | (...) If you go to some Toys R Us stores, they have large hollow plastic bricks for trim in their Lego section. I bet you could find a way to snag one, and use it for a mold. What you fill it with is up to you. (24 years ago, 29-Jun-00, to lugnet.fun.crafts)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO brick bookends —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | (...) I wonder how hard it would be to build or aquire a "bookend base" -- a stone or metal "L" that would be big enough to mount a LEGO creation on. That way, the base would do the work, and the LEGO bits would be unadulterated. Steve (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.fun.crafts)
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| | | | | | | Re: LEGO brick bookends —Richard Marchetti
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| | | | | | (...) I had this idea too. Office supply stores sell a type of bookend that is roughly an inverted "T" shape from the side, one end of which slides under the first several books which it supports thereby gaining the weight of the books on top of it (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.fun.crafts)
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| | | | | (canceled) —Jamie Obrien
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO brick bookends —John Morgan
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| | | | Hi Jamie, I noticed you cast some lead bricks? I recently aquired my grandfather's crucible and ladle and want to try to create some 2x4x1 lead bricks... If I understand your post correctly, you have created custon leads molds ? Could you tell me a (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jun-00, to lugnet.fun.crafts)
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| | | | | | (canceled) —Jamie Obrien
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO brick bookends —John Morgan
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| | | | hi Jamie! thanks for looking. I tried the web but everyone wanted to sell molds not say how to make them. The reason I thought of lead bricks is due to the lead sinkers I used on my rope throwing device( climbing trees is real easy when you can (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jun-00, to lugnet.fun.crafts)
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| | | | | | (canceled) —Jamie Obrien
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO brick bookends —John Morgan
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| | | | Hi Jamie, I think I solved the problem ... I found some high fire clay that had dried out but wasn't fired, melted some lead into a place I had carved out. It worked great holding the lead in shape and didnt crack at all. So I am going to make a (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jul-00, to lugnet.fun.crafts)
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