From: jim.speirs@canrem.com (Jim Speirs)
To: dannys@iis.ee.ethz.ch (Danny Schwendener)
Subject: Not Just Another Woggle
Summary: How to mold your patrol woggle

Article #R112b.
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Not Just Another Woggle
Jim Lloyd, 
The Leader, August/September 1984


Jim Lloyd, troop Scouter of the Rothesay Legion Scouts in New
Brunswick, sent in this excellent Scout craft. The process fills a
complete two hour meeting.

Materials (for one woggle)

1 bar coloured soap 
2 paper cups 
4 oz. plaster of paris 
4 oz. fibre glass resin and a drop of hardener 
1 small jack knife 
paper clip 
plastic model paint

Procedure

1. Carve your patrol woggle or a woggle of your own design from soap.
Soap is soft, and carving it is a good way to learn to handle a knife.

2. Mix 1/2 cup plaster to the consistency of soft ice cream.

3. Push the soap woggle into the plaster so that the top of the woggle
is level with the top of the plaster.

4. When the plaster has set (you can hurry it along with a little
heat), use a bent paper clip to dig out all the soap. This leaves you
a mold of your soap woggle.

5. Mix the resin and hardener in a cup and carefully pour into the
mold so that you don't spill any.

6. When the resin has set, break away the plaster. There's your
woggle.

7. Paint the woggle to your taste.

"The troop room will smell funny with soap and resin for a while, and
so will the boys," Scouter Lloyd says. But, he points out, the process
works for making molds of all kinds and, if you carefully cut the
plaster mold in half and grease it well each time, you can re-use it.
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