Tips for Using Sound Filters in Rain Sticks

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Hi this is Ginny with Simply Beautiful Crafts on behalf of Expert Village. If we're going to use something to simulate a cactus storm in our rain stick, we're going to want to use something like nails, toothpicks, or straight pins with the small head. If you?re going to use a mailing tube, you can use these nails, they will work beautifully, but you will need to use a hammer to get the nail through the tube. Before you start hammering away, you will want to mark your tube whether you are using a mailing tube or a smaller tube in a consistent manner. I just use a magic marker and put two fingers and made a dot every two fingers along the seam of the tube. Then like I said for this one I did need to use a hammer in order to put the nail into that hole. Once you have the hammer it's not going to work real well on this card table but I do have nails all the way through. I used about 50 nails and put them as you can see about two fingers apart and as you look in the tube you can see the nails that are sticking out in the tube. There is a lot of space in this tube so you would want to use relatively large filler maybe some kind of bean that?s a large bean or small pebbles. Either that or you would want to put more nails in even closer together to make a different sound. For this paper towel roll tube I used straight pins and these need no pre-hole. Again I measured about two fingers and marked it with my pen and then pushed a pin in until I had gone all the way down the seam with the pins. And they push in relatively easily, you don't need anything to pre-mark it. If you are going to use toothpicks which give it a more natural sound, you will do the same thing and mark it, but you will need to make a hole with a pin or something before you use a toothpick. I really like these toothpicks with the flat end because I don't have to break an end off. You can push the toothpick through and here it hit the other edge and so you are going to angle the toothpick until you can get it all the way in. Once you have your toothpicks in you want the little nub of it sticking out and you want to put a dab of glue on it so that it won't go all the way through. If you are going to use an external sound filter that?s going in to the tube, you will want to cover this tube with something before you decorate it. So now you know how to use nails, strait pins and toothpicks for your sound filters for your rain stick.

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