The featured products
at my shop www.etsy.com/shop/wrightmade
for the month of January are Cigar Box Kaleidoscopes. To the best of my knowledge, these are the
only Cigar Box Kaleidoscopes on the market today. Used, empty cigar boxes are
used to build an Image Wheel kaleidoscope using copper plumbing pipe for the
housing of the front surface mirrors, and a revolving image wheel. I collect empty cigar boxes from friends and
neighbors, as well as stopping in cigar stores on travels. Surprisingly, most
cigar stores are happy to see such boxes used in a productive way.
I try to use as wide
a variety of types of cigar boxes as I can find for the kaleidoscopes – looking
at color, writing, labels, shapes, etc. Several dozen Cigar Box Kaleidoscopes have
been crafted and sold over the years, and there are currently 15 listed on my
etsy site. Cigar Box Kaleidoscopes comprise about 10% of the kaleidoscopes I
craft each year. Here is a link to a couple of the current Cigar Box
Kaleidoscopes for sale:
What is it that you
like about the Cigar Box Kaleidoscopes? Love to hear your thoughts.
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