Setting up - Hothead on bulk

[AnnaSpanna]

Hi,

my lovely mum (Jayspangles) has got me a hothead setup for Crimbo, for which I am incredibly grateful (although I'm not sure that the landlord is going to be too keen in the change of use of my dining room!!!!). Anyway, up till now I have been using my mother's bench whenever I've gone home and she has a creation station. I'm not keen to fork out 90 quid for one when I am rather handy with a jigsaw and have a suitable plank of wood just waiting to be put to good use. What I am having difficulty sourcing is something that resembles the wrist rests. Does anyone have any bright and ingenious ideas as to what I could do to replicate said rests?

Any advice or suggestions are very welcome,

Spanna

[Carl Martin]

Small childs handlebars off a pushbike secured to said plank with plumbers 'P' clips. perfect angle and very retro looking. elbow rests from a cut down rubberised mousemat
I too think the creation station is taking the p*** for the price charged. Easily made for less than 2 pints down the local and probably last longer.

[llewennog]

There's lots of us here that dont use creation station's, and personally the time spent making your own system or trying new techniques would be better, personally I work from the elbows or rest my hand on the barrel of my torch (gtt's dont get hot) but i like to sit and stand whilst im working.

There are lots of options and techniques its one of the many aspects of lampworking that I love!

[Kaz]

Probably not a good idea to rest your hands on a hot head Spanna - unlike GTT's, they get very hot.
I'd try with the cut up keyboard wrist rest to see if that works for you - as it's a cheap option. Or the handlebars look cool!
Kazx

[llewennog]

ANd you can pretend to be a hells angel! lmfao

[lemon kitten]

Small childs handlebars off a pushbike secured to said plank with plumbers 'P' clips.

AND you could put those lovely glittery fringes on the ends of the handlebars too!!  I LOOOOOOOOVE it !!

Janey xx

[bluefairy]

Small childs handlebars off a pushbike secured to said plank with plumbers 'P' clips.

AND you could put those lovely glittery fringes on the ends of the handlebars too!!  I LOOOOOOOOVE it !!

Janey xx

Ummmm.... is a Budgie saddle compulsory, or can we stick to normal seating?  

[Forester18]

I posted a design for creation station on Aug 5th this year. It cost less than £10.

Frederick

[Lush!]

I was gonna suggest cut up mouse mats, or bean bags (or in my case, bed socks  ) on top of baked bean tins as wrist rests ... but Frederick's design was far better!

[Kalorlo]

Ooh yes, I found Frederick's thread here. That looks really good.

[AnnaSpanna]

So I have now set up with my spectacularly cheap dining table from Ikea and have bolted my hothead bracket to the table upside-down and set a little way onto the table. This has given me enough space to rest my elbows on the table without being too far over the torch. Day 4 and I'm finding it quite comfortable - but do need something soft for my elbows to actually sit on so the mouse mat/gel wrist pads seem like a good idea. At the mo I am managing without the wrist rests but then that might explain why my dots are a bit erm.....well......err......dodgy!

Will keep plodding on to see if I actually need rests or whether it is purely because I am a newbie and so naturally will produce dodgy spots!

Thanks you for the advice though guys - and the piccies (frederick) as that is basically the sort of thing I had in my mind.

Spx