[Claude]

Here's a photo of my low-tech, inexpensive, but very effective paint drying rack. The dowel is held between the pile of sandpaper and the shelf on the left. A straight pin is pushed into the carving, a thread tied to it, then it's painted, and the thread is wrapped around the dowel a couple times and held in place with the clothespins. The cardinal on the right is suspended from a partly-straightened paper clip, since I ran out of clothespins and was too lazy...I mean, busy, to go find another clothespin. The cowboy bottlestopper is one I just finished carving, and it's been dipped in sealer and will hang for a week to allow the sealer to out-gas before I paint it.

Claude

[Marci MN]

My husband drilled holes every six inches in my four foot shop lights above my head and behind me. I did something a bit simular to you by using string with a pin/tack on the end and then bent some wire hooks on the other end of the string. When I'm done painting or dipping, I just stand up and hang from the light. For the walking sticks I had him screw a plank to the ceiling of my store room, and put 10 cup hooks into that plank, using the same strings I will just hang my walking sticks from the ceiling in there. They can stay undisturbed in that room.

Its fun to see how folks come up with inventions to get things to work.

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

I take a piece of scrap wood, 1 by pine usually...I use my finish air nailer and shoot brads thru the wood ramdomly all over, looks like a porcupine lol...and the carving can sit on the tips of the brads.....or, sometimes when I have used the screw in the dowel to hold the item, I just put a regular screw in the hole thats already there and clamp the screw in my vise......

[Kenny_S]

Not bad Claude. But those birds look dead hanging upside down.
I posted that I had some scrap pieces of wood and nailed two 10 " uprights to a base, dowell rod across these uprights and 24 gauge wire wraped around the Dowell rod ,hanging down with a hook on the end for my ornaments to dry. But then, I screw in the eyescrews before I paint.
Neat s all!