Matakishi's Tea House

You recommend cork for a lot of model-making projects.  Do you not find it difficult to get hold of cork these days?  My local DIY shops have stopped stocking it. 

Yes, finding cork in local shops is a pain these days. I buy in bulk from Siesta Cork.

On the subject of cork you can buy cork packing for parquet flooring from diy stores break it up into little pieces and it makes very good looking stone walls .David.

Hi everyone, I get my cork from W----s, its ready sealed (on one side), but I have used it and its fine.

Are we allowed to say store names on here?

Ok, I guess its fine to say the name of where I get my cork from, It's Wickes and here is what I made.

Lovely building, the interior grills are particularly effective.

thats brilliant snakebite,superb!! excellcently made:).I gave up on cork as my local wickes never seemed to have it in stock,i went to my local pinders and bought foam card instead:).

Look forward to seeing more,again brilliant.

Cheers tony:)

Matakishi at May 6, 2009 at 10:26 AM

Yes, finding cork in local shops is a pain these days. I buy in bulk from Siesta Cork.

You use the unsealed domestic density tiles right?

I use domestic untreated cork floor tiles.

I tried to get untreated cork tiles, but all Wickes get now is the treated one's, It's ok though treated one's work well, I just lightly sanded the treated side in places where I wanted to glue.

The interior cell bars, if you were wondering are made from plastic canvas grade 7 normally used for tapestry I think? all the doors open and close by the way.

Here is a photo of materials used, you can see the plastic canvas there.

Dave.

I am in the US, and I buy my cork from Wal-Mart, Staples and Lowe's.

It is a package of four cork tiles, each 30cm x 30cm x 5mm, for ~$5.50USD.

It is a bulletin board kit.