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perchy,that is very festive of you ,thanks so much.
Could you sign it as well please,cheers.
Well I really don’t know if today could get any better, just had some lovely new emails from international best sellers,so I took the plunge and ordered some fruit that reduces belly fat and bubble gum that is going to repair my teeth and gums. With my new winning smile and buff physique it looks like I am heading for some exciting times so I ordered some of their wonder dust that has you hard in bed all night. I also booked a ticket for this big event in the Shark Tank discussing black market suppression in the Swedish tax system and spy cars. Honestly, what a time to be alive.
[i]Using this at the moment.
You get little sticky silicon bump dots. Stick some of them on the bottom will be better than trying to use felt.
Looking on Etsy there are listed at £26 for 4 which seems steep to me.
That is the low end on i-saw-you-coming.com and they are all made in a factory somewhere cheap
I'd pay it for a nice design and proper materials
Do beer mats and bar towels count? If so, yes.
Yup wooden ones from India. Coffee cup has a saucer though. Place matt's with a cork backing with a print of a track bike on, random tkmaxx purchase!
Local cheap-as-chips summer race series down here in swampland (Oxon) has *a* coaster (nice slate job depicting a local notable building) as the memento for the whole series. But with 2 of us in the house and the years going by we now have ... Counts ... 9 of 'em (think one got broken).
Somehow it's different if they're meaningful to you somehow?
Always have used coasters, was taught to by my gran who had some very expensive wood tables. Current collection ranges from cheap plastic ones from Wilko through novelty ones with bikes or slogans on it to a solid steel one that is in the shape of a Hope rotor that they gave sold with a christmas goodie bag a few years ago. I've also got a really thin plastic one from Chatel too from when they launched the new Vink Line trail but that's next to useless.
Best ones I've seen are just slices off a log coated in varnish/lacquer.
Agree a seal breaker is a must, all of ours are smooth and end up sticking to the glass/mug until you've lifted it about 15cm before clattering down.
Are you inlaying squirrels into the resin?
Savage!
Beat me to it!
Seriously though, are you?
Who knew roadkill was such a hot topic on STW?
We use them but they do my head in. Whaterever you do make then as thin as possible and of a large enough diameter that a wine glass is easy to put on after 3/4 of a bottle 🙂
4" square is the current plan. Not sure how to get a non-smooth finish when I plan to coat them in resin but I have a couple of things to try. I will post up attempts on here. Plan is to do then at £5 a pop posted. Didn't realise how expensive and heat resistant glass clear resin is!
I have a nice Millennium Falcon one next to my laptop for when I am job hunting and drinking the copious amounts of tea involved with such a task
When buying coasters, remember not to put style before functionality.
Rustic looking slate coasters while visually very appealing are not an even surface and when, half-pissed, you attempt to put a large glass of red wine on them, it can actually keel over sideways from the wonkey surface and deposit a load of malbec all over your carpet which can then never ever be removed
So I've heard, anyway.
Ahem...
More to the point, who DOESN'T use coasters? Bastards never coming round my house i tell ya.
If you’re designing from scratch, some shallow grooves in the surface to avoid making a seal between the bottom rim of the cup and the map would be an elegant engineering solution.
Definitely this....
Who knew roadkill was such a hot topic on STW?
If he were still here, Badger will be thinking “at last they’ll not be going on about me and the sealant for the next 10 years”
I keep threatening to get some of my designs printed as coasters. I'll get round to it one day. One idea I had was illustrating favourite film and TV quotes. I did a couple. What do you reckon?*
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*sorry for the slight thread hijack WCA
We (my wife and I) use them. Got some arty ones from Cupola Gallery here in Sheffield. They just help keep our side tables scratch free.
I reckon trail marker arrows would make good coasters, pack of 6 each with a different trail name, mix of blue, red and black, sold at the cafe in your local trail centre.
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I reckon trail marker arrows would make good coasters, pack of 6 each with a different trail name, mix of blue, red and black, sold at the cafe in your local trail centre.
That's the sort of things I made from some surplus markers from Glentress. I've got red, blue, black and orange arrows, plus a 7 Stanes logo, an "escape route" arrow and a name plate for Magic Mushroom. I also have a green arrow I got later, but I've yet to clean it up and give it a cork backing.
One of my mates was able to snag a "Skills Area" marker, I gather he wanted to mount it on his bedroom door.
Old cd's work well.
Yeah they're everywhere in our gaff. They proliferate like cushions and I suspect the same source of infestation. They are marginally more useful than cushions though and you don't have to move 20 of them every time you want to sit on the sofa or climb into bed.
One of my mates was able to snag a “Skills Area” marker, I gather he wanted to mount it on his bedroom door.
😀 😀
marginally more useful than cushions though and you don’t have to move 20 of them every time you want to sit on the sofa
Marginally? They have a use - to protect a surface. Cushions serve no use. A sofa is designed to be sat on, that is its USP. If you need cushions on a sofa then it has failed in its sole purpose for existing.
I do have enough of this bark to make probably a dozen coasters. The rough side filled with resin. Cut into coaster sized circles and then cut thinner. Any takers? Also Any takers for watch / Jewellery stands?
I keep threatening to get some of my designs printed as coasters. I’ll get round to it one day.
That's no use to people who desperately need Christmas present ideas for this year, is it?
We use them.
We've some from brother in NZ, and another set from my trip to Myanmar.
WCA you need a coaster for those lumps of wood.
Yes we use them, on side tables, on the two desks and by each bed.
Got bee ones from here https://www.kitschrepublic.co.uk/collections/coasters recommend Roaster Coaster by Brewdog from Tesco for putting on coaster best supermarket stout IMHO.
Marginally? They have a use – to protect a surface. Cushions serve no use. A sofa is designed to be sat on, that is its USP. If you need cushions on a sofa then it has failed in its sole purpose for existing.
Does your mattress have built in pillows?
Does no one use a saucer any more? Heathens.
Not with a mug, no.
Cushions serve no use. A sofa is designed to be sat on, that is its USP. If you need cushions on a sofa then it has failed in its sole purpose for existing.
Bollocks! The whole idea of extra cushions is to provide extra lumbar support, which most sofas don’t really provide, and/or support under your neck if you’re sprawled full-length on it.
Had coasters around for donks - my brother used to work for a company called Praesidium Melamine, which produced all sorts of promotional coasters and trays and stuff, and we ended up with quite a few trays and sets of coasters with tiny flaws in, and I’ve also got a set of sandstone coasters about a centimetre thick with a Native American design on one side and cork on the other, which I brought back from the States, a couple of which are on the bare wood coffee table in front of me, along with a square one some friends gave me with my Christmas pressy many years ago, with a cartoon of the Madness Hamsters on it. The table came from a charity shop along the road, ‘cos we really needed something cheap but useful for my g/f to work on when sewing, it’s clean but shows wear, plonking mugs and glasses on it would just spoil it.
Re: old CD’s - not for nothing were badly recorded CD-R discs called coaster format...
Jeez CZ, can you use more full stops, I've nearly asphyxiated reading that middle sentence.
We have coasters. Of course we do, and cushions. I have never knowingly bought either though.
To add to it, we have a strange variety of anti-coaster. As noted above, they are flat, and glass (hard/heavy-ish) and always stick to the bottom of the mug.
So while we don't have heat rings or water marks, we do have the accumulated dents of a piece of glass repeatedly dropping onto our coffee table. Progress, I suppose.
Having spent time and money making a beautiful oak and valchromat extending dining table and finishing it with Osmo Polyx oil only to find that red wine and curry go straight through into the grain...
Yes, we now use mats and coasters.
...and deposit a load of malbec all over your carpet which can then never ever be removed
@binners - have you not heard? This is exactly what white wine is for, it's used to clean the red wine stains out of the carpet!
Cushions serve no use.
I have never knowingly bought either though.
Kind of more on autopilot?
First batch painted. Waiting for the paint to fully cured before I resin them with UV and heat resistant resin. I haven't properly adjusted the picture but they are basically red, iridescent orange, metallic gold and black. so a bit more blingy that the photo shows
I did these to test the quantity of paint I needed. I will be doing more in other colours. Any suggestions for colour schemes you might like?
Just opened and read through this thread. Has a moderator deleted all the comments from people saying that they don't use coasters, or are we alone in our household in not using them and thinking that they are a complete waste of time and cause more issues than they solve?
I genuinely don't get the mindset of buying a nice table and then being afraid to put things on it for fear of damaging it. If the primary purpose of a table is to be able put something on it, you should buy a nice table that is capable of surviving having things put on it without that thing damaging it. Or just stop worrying about it.
If using coasters, they inevitably get stuck to the bottom of the glass with any kind of moisture or condensation. They make wiping any surface much more of a chore as you have to wipe all the fiddly little things, and then pick them up and then wipe the table.
If you are dripping tea and leaving mug circles, you will leave these on whatever you put your mug on and that will need a wipe, be that coaster or table. Why complicate things?
Militantly using a coaster on a table is in my mind similar buying toys but keeping them in the box rather than playing with them for fear of them losing value.
Having said that, those are pretty nice @Worldclassaccident
peekay - you have absolutely understood why I posted in the first place. I had toi dig around the back of our cupboards to find an old coaster to get the approximate size. We don't use them, my mother still has the ones that my sister and I made when at school sat at the back of one of her cupboards. I was amazed by the response on here which is why I made some.
For you I could put a little loop on the back and you could hang them from your Christmas tree as stylish and artful decorations.
Peekay - So do you have wooden tables in your lounge or kitchen? Do these have heat / water mark little circles all over them?
This is such a weird thread. I've searched the whole first page and no mention of saucers.
Cups and saucers. No......
Alternative reality..
This is such a weird thread. I’ve searched the whole first page and no mention of saucers.
Government coverup. They're all in a warehouse in Area 51
Yes, large Oak table in kitchen area, teak coffee table.
The oak table is pretty rustic looking, haven't noticed any stains that stand out and don't disappear after a day or so. Maybe the whole table is one big stain. I think it looks smart enough and most importantly it is clean and easy to clean.
Similarly I haven't noticed any stains on the coffee table. But it wouldn't bother me if there were.
If you have a table that stains through standard use and it bothers you, you either have the wrong table or need to learn to live with stains. Coasters are a just sticking plaster.
Make sure the surface is non slip too-we had some glass ones that were a nightmare-the cup or glass would slide around like it was on ice
I am with peekay - never use coasters, no marks on my furniture