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Sidebar: Marketing Your Teeth

Fig. 6. Starting the outside cut of the tooth.

While making the Toothpick Holder, I wondered how well they would have sold if we had them back when we did craft shows. One thing all those years of eraft shows taught us is that presentation is just as important, if not more important, than what you are trying to sell. So, I started thinking about how we would have displayed them. Arranging a bunch of Toothpick Holders on a stand shaped like a gum line came to mind. So I made one, As I was painting it pink, I was thinking about a sign fo go with it. That's when I noticed the piece of wood that came out of the center of the gum line lying on the floor. It looked like a tongue giving me a raspberry! Well, that irritated one of my brain cells! It collaborated with the other one and the tongue sign was born. Appropriate wording was laid out and cut into the tongue. Then it was painted red.

When it was done and put together it made a pretty decent display. These Toothpick Holders ought fo be something that wilt make getting your customers to part with their money less difficult than pulling teeth. That's the tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth. I swear!

If you're interested in making a stand like this one you can get the pattern from: JP Woodworks, 3000 Charleton Ct„ Waldorf, MD 20602; Tel; 301-843-7380; Website;www.jpwoodworks.net; Email: fretsawyer@worldnet.att.net.

Fig. 9. Tooth removed from waste material.

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Fig. 0. Cut the other

and bottom of the base.