Toothpick Designs

Toothpick Designs

Toothpick Designs are becoming more and more interesting. I am not referring to the actual design of a toothpick, but rather the designs that can be made from putting a load of toothpicks together (or matchsticks for that matter).

Toothpick designs have basically the same overall considerations to be taken into account when building a toothpick model, except of course that they are generally tapered at the ends and ten to be thinner than matchsticks, which means that you would probably need more toothpicks than matches to build and identical model.

Also when building a matchstick model, it looks like it would be easier to lock them together using offsetting and staggered match placement making the model potentially stronger than a toothpick counter-part.

However, it is obviously possible to make great toothpick designs as some of the photos on this page show.

The artists here have chosen to go for the “toy” look rather than the “art” look and although they are not as huge and complex as some on this site, I still think that these toothpick designs are both unique and an excellent form of displaying the art we have.

These would make superb gifts or ornaments around the house and even though they still take some considerable amount of time to make, would make great Christmas gifts.

Care obviously needs to be taken around small kids or animals as the points of these toothpick designs would render a nasty blow!

Again I can see another great way of not only entertaining ourselves, but also a way to generate income. I am sure that there are a lot of people around your neighbor hood who would be interested in making these models for you for a share of the profits. this could be a cool way of helping out the community in employment
and possible fund raising ideas.

If anyone has any models that you would like to sell from my site, please contact me and let me know or if indeed you would like to advertise your company here again please contact me anytime and show me your toothpick designs.

To see the original site I got this information from please check it here at Toothpick Designs.

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