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Preview of Pocket gold sluice
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Pan for gold, garnets and gemstones in a stream with riffles that trap the heavy grains
A miniature version of the sluice boxes of the gold rushes. Water runs straight through the open-ended channel and carries the light sand away, while anything dense, such as black sand, garnets and gold, drops behind the six riffle bars and stays there. After ten minutes, lift it out level and wash what is trapped behind the riffles into a pan. It also works at home in a tub of water with a bag of gem-mining paydirt.
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Preview of Rock-pool aquascope
By Krypto
Complexity
Simple
MAIN PURPOSE: Look through the surface of rock pools and ponds without the glare
Ripples and reflections hide everything in a rock pool. Push this scope a little way into the water and look down the tube: the clear window at the bottom flattens the surface and the walls block the sky, so suddenly you can see crabs, anemones, shrimps and fish as if the water were glass. Hold it by the rim, and it works just as well in ponds and streams.
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Preview of Nordic ice-lantern mould
By Krypto
Complexity
Simple
MAIN PURPOSE: Freeze a flower-shaped ring of ice to hold a candle on a winter night
In Finland and Sweden people line paths with ice lanterns on winter nights. Fill the ring between the two walls of this flower-shaped mould with water (add berries, leaves or petals for colour), freeze it outside or in the freezer, then dip it in warm water and the ice ring slips out. Stand it on the snow or a plate over a tealight and it glows from inside. The petal-shaped walls make the ice thicker in some places and thinner in others, so the light glows unevenly, like real frosted glass.
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Preview of Floating-needle compass bowl
By Krypto
Complexity
Simple
MAIN PURPOSE: Make a working compass from a needle, a magnet and a bowl of water
The compass the first sailors used. Stroke a sewing needle along a magnet thirty times in one direction, push it through a thin slice of cork and float it in the bowl. With nothing to stop it, the needle swings round and settles pointing north and south. Turn the bowl until the raised N lines up with the needle's north end, and the other directions are read straight off the floor. It also shows children that the Earth itself is a magnet.
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Preview of Fly-tying bench station
By Krypto
Complexity
Advanced
MAIN PURPOSE: Organise hooks, beads and feathers for tying fishing flies
A bench station for fly tiers. Eight bays sort hooks, beads, dubbing and wire, and the tall side box stands hackle and tail feathers upright so they keep their shape. Everything is within reach of the vice.
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Preview of Sunscreen beach caddy
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Keep sunscreen, after-sun and lip balm together at the beach
A beach and pool caddy for sun care: sunscreen, after-sun and face SPF stand in their own bays, a slim tube holds the lip balm, and sand drains out through the perforated floor instead of collecting in the bottom. SPF is raised on the front so the children find it.
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Preview of Fishing float tube box
By Krypto
Complexity
Multi-part assembly
MAIN PURPOSE: Carry long fishing floats without snapping their tips
A long box for coarse-fishing floats: wagglers, sticks and pole floats each lie in their own row so the fragile antennae never snap in a tackle bag, under a telescoping lid. FLOATS is engraved on top.
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Preview of Archery point and nock sorter
By Krypto
Complexity
Multi-part assembly
MAIN PURPOSE: Sort arrow points, nocks and inserts by weight
An archer's parts box for field points by grain weight, nocks, inserts and fletching tape: eight cells under a lift-off lid. ARCHERY is engraved on the lid so it can be found in a cluttered range bag.
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Preview of Metal-detecting finds sorter
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Sort detecting finds into keep, clean and trash in the field
A belt-worn finds box for metal detectorists. Coins and relics go straight into KEEP, anything muddy into CLEAN, and ring-pulls and foil into TRASH, so nothing good gets thrown away with the junk at the end of the day. Two slots on the back take a belt.
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Preview of Ski wax and scraper kit
By Krypto
Complexity
Multi-part assembly
MAIN PURPOSE: Keep ski or snowboard wax, scraper and brush together
A tuning kit box for skiers and snowboarders. The long slot holds the plexi scraper, two wells take wax pucks for warm and cold snow, and the big bay holds the brush and cork. The lid stops wax shavings getting everywhere, and WAX is engraved on top.
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