Solid Shapes

Ready to rock your mineral collection? Look no further than Galena, the silver sulfide with the attitude of a rock star. This mineral, known for its metallic luster and cubic crystals, is the epitome of cool. Why pick Galena? It's a Natural beauty with...

Before you go jumping to conclusions about these disc, let us just say that they’re made of neoprene foam (aka rubber). We have (2) varieties, all black and flexible, and you pick according to what you need: (10) round, 2-3/16” dia x...

These are dark gray, open-cell foam tubes, 5-3/8” long x 1-3/4” OD with a 3/4” ID bore. We wouldn’t presume to tell you what to do with these, which is, of course your business, and frankly, we’d be ashamed of ourselves for...

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...

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...

One of our coolest recent magnet acquisitions. You’re welcome. This one is coated white and in the general shape of a tombstone with a flat bottom, straight sides and a rounded top. Measures just shy of 2” x 2” and about a 1/4”...

We think of these as industrial worry beads, but they're really 5/16" dia (8mm) steel ball bearings, ready to be put to whatever ball-bearing uses you might have. Our each is a pack of (50), which should cover a lot of worries, and whatever else you can...

If so, don’t worry. We have pouches full of ’em, all made in Mexico, where marbles come from. You pick from (6) varieties: the themed sets that include: (1) 25mm shooter and (24) 16mm player marbles, either in Cat's Eye (transparent with...

Pure surplus: 11” x 4” x 1/4” thick oblongs (which is to say, rectangles with rounded ends) of dense, black nitrile rubber. It’s like padding, matte on one surface and glossy on the other. Great for dampening vibration, or...

Small pieces of very thin plywood for your craft and model-making needs. You get 18 cubic inches, which will translate into multiple sheets of 3-ply poplar, birch or similar wood at 1/8" to 1/2" thicknesses in random shapes and sizes. Our sample was (6)...

A neat bag-o-wood, suitable for model-making, art projects and hobbies of all sorts. The balsa bag weighs almost 3/4 of a pound, and is a random assortment of balsa that may range from 1/8" square strips to a 5" long x 2" square...

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:...

What can we say about chrome steel ball bearings besides their essential uses? Well, a lot, actually. They're perfect for Rube Goldberg displays and artwork. Imagine them in various sizes in a glass container. Imagine dipping them in paint, rolling them...

Ferrite toroids, actually. (The was the house band at the Fillmore West in '66.) These doughnuts are for making transformers and filters and other magnetic magic. Ours measure 1-5/16" x 11/16" x 1/2".

This thick glass lamp diffuser measures 10-1/2" x 6-7/8" inside with a 1/4" perimeter lip. The 1/8” thick glass is patterned in 1/16” squares, and the whole shebang is an offset triangle that’s 2-3/4” high at its tallest...

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...