Other Materials

Ever kept any collectibles in a wooden cigar box and thought, “Gosh, I wish I could find a box just like this that wasn’t at one time a cigar box?” We thought so, and that’s why we tracked down this unfinished wooden box with a...

Hey, sometimes a panel o’ pine is just a panel o’ pine, and we happen to have palettes full of ’em. We’ll send you (3) per order, each 6" x 6" x 3/8” thick, unfinished and purely pine (we’re pretty sure). Frame-like on...

We’d say our price for this flexible mirror material is about as fair as you can get. We’ll send you (9) 8” x 9-3/4” sheets of a reflective material we believe to mylar with a self-adhesive back. The idea is to make a mirror-like...

The New Bracelet For All The Magical Arm Rings are (is?) a gadget that’s hard to describe. It’s an interactive stress reliever/fidget toy/performance aid/avante-garde jewelry piece that sort of looks like a really wide (5-1/8” dia x...

K & S makes great tubing, rod and sheet stock for hobbyists and DIYers, but all of those pieces have ends. Knowing that hobbyists and DIYers are creative folk who love bits and pieces and hate waste, they offer big ol' (and little ol') bags of end scrap...

You can’t blame the original manufacturer for putting (6) gold rings in a package instead of just (5). If they’d have put (5) in there, they’d get nothing but jokes about the “Twelve Days of Christmas” song, which would be...

Remember when people said that? No? Ask your dad. We brought it back because we miss '80s surfer dudes and because it's such a good headline for these metal nesting tubes. All are 12” long with .014” walls. You pick: the set of (8) aluminum...

Don’t put this shaker jar in the wrong place--it’s just a clever way to store and use iron filings for a physics class. You’ll get a clear glass spice jar-looking jar with a screw cap that lets you dial small/medium/large openings...

These white porcelain molds from the balloon industry are, frankly, the scariest non-medical items we've seen in a long time. They come in all sorts of sizes, in a bunch of shapes and sizes: rounds, ovals, screws, rods... on shafts with a threaded end to...

Corked bats and wines are bummers, but corked walls are cool. Now you can cork as much or little of your wall as you want with these 6” x 6” tiles with foam self-sticking backs from Quartet. You’ll get (2) per order. Tiles have an...

Classic coffee filter design! This small stainless steel fine-mesh filter is 2” dia x 1-1/2” tall. It has fine mesh sides, a solid plastic bottom and slight lip around the top. Nice for small filtering jobs, but would also make a passable...

You’re never too old for Play-Doh, so here’s our adult-themed (6)-pack that recalls the joys of youth while skewering middle-aged malaise. The plastic cans of “modelling compound,” as the eggheads call it, are 3" tall x 2" dia,...

Velcro®, Velcro®, Velcro®. We get so tired of all the time having to say “hook-and-loop fastener” that we get super-excited whenever we have actual self adhesive Velcro® brand Velcro® in stock. Which is what this is...

Classic coffee filter design! This small stainless steel fine-mesh filter is 2” dia x 1-1/2” tall. It has fine mesh sides, a solid plastic bottom and slight lip around the top. Nice for small filtering jobs, but would also make a passable...

Black neoprene gaskets in a variety of sizes and shapes: loops, hoops and flat. Stretchy, a little dusty, but in good condition. The small round assortment gets you (2) gaskets, approx. 1/2"  dia cross-section, in loops with overall diameters...

So Pat went a little crackers and bought approximately 897 gazillion #00 rubber stoppers, enough to stop up every small test tube in every high school science lab from here to Osaka. You'll get a bag o' (1,000) of them. We know you'll find a crafty use:...

This small stainless steel fine-mesh filter is 2" dia x 1-1/2" tall. It has fine mesh sides, a solid plastic bottom and slight lip around the top. Nice for small filtering jobs, but would also make a passable basket for a gerbil hoops game.

Can you say bulk buy? These plastic (polyethylene) dip tubes are 129mm long x 8mm OD x 6mm ID with 45-degree offset slices at each end, sold in 7,000-piece cases only. Haven't been in a lab since high school? These are 5.07" x .31" OD and .24" ID and are...