So being the crafty one who, thanks to more amounts of wintertime darkness and working two jobs on the weekend, has had more time to putz around at night, I decided to have some fun with making some custom kite stakes.

Made some from real mini pool balls and a few others from modeling clay and epoxy. Dorky? Perhaps... but at least they are not golf balls (HATE golf!)

What do you guys think? Can i quit my jobs yet!?

How much...? $$$

I could use one of those... my PL stakes are monsters... all I want to do is stake down my kite, not create a meteorite impact crater in a soccer field.

Wow! Really?!

Well, I was just posting to share but I suppose if anyone is interested we could work something out. If there is enough interest, I could do up a bunch of them?

i just made a bunch too! i was just thinking about making a thread i know you hate golfballs but i used to golf when i was little because all my cousins did but i eventually stopped but when i did i bought a huge box of neon orange golf balls but i never used them they were more of a novelty and now i found a new use for them

i sharpened and rounded the stainless steel rods on my bench grinder and then epoxied the golfballs on

the one of the end is a HQ kite stake just for comparison

not to steal kristens thunder but i can also make them for people who want them because i have too much freetime and need a job

They look great! Good job!!

Good stuff CJ!

i personally hate golf too i was thinking about making some from a lacrosse s and hockey pucks but maybe i can find something else to use i like the clay idea i was thinking about making one from a novelty plastic hand or maybe a skull?

My faves have always been Dave's custom stakes. Some seriously, seriously loverly work. Between those and custom kites, the man bleeds talent like a SR-71 bleeds jet fuel.

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/377398395iFZwfk?st...

ATB,
Sam

wow thats discouraging yet inspiring maybe ill have to start making things on my lathe

Holy crap! That is some serious art/creative!

They look Greight Kristin! Doesn't is suck when the wind doesn't blow! Keep up the good work and maybe we will see a listing soon!

Exactly what I was thinking about although I don't know about "mini" ... I got big hands (apparently) and don't like pushing the small heads into hard ground.
... I use my PL stake for grass or soft ground cos the stakes won't hold.

kami... Happy to make yours with the "big" balls if ya end up wanting one

(However i wrote that one, it justs didnt sound right )

How solid would the ball be, do you think? Would it survive being stomped into the ground?

Ive tested in our frozen grass out here in fridgid RI and the mini balls hold up perfectly. I Imagine the larger balls would work better if anything.

I'd want the ball small enough that you could still get a brake loop over them. Big balls can really get in the way. :embarrased:

For me I use HQ stakes in grass and PL stakes at the beach.