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What do you use to get your model complete?

My tools vary from needles, clothes pins, sometimes a knife to cut a square piece of paper. And my latest adition to my tool box is my girlfriend's hand nail file, it's perfect for those long and narow folds you need to do without damaging your paper

Edited by saj: Correct spelling of Origami

i have no tool kit just my fingers and their conveiently preattached nails which are perfect to use for sharp creasing

This topic should be closed for its inappropriate title and that on an Origami Forum *sigh*

all the tools that you need for origami are your hands and some paper.

Two sets of tweezers, one with pointed ends, the other rounded.
And I don't know what the wooden one with metal tips is called. Got it at a stationary department store in Japan. I just call it a poker. It can form creases, such as prior to pinching a leg in half. The round tips prevent punctures. Usually .

sorry origami_8

i'll blame the title on my keybord to avoid embarrassment )

I mostly use just my hands-it is surprising what they can do. I use my thumbnail for sharp creases. When I am working on very small details or intricate sinks, however, I use a toothpick (or mechanical pencil or whatever else is around) to poke up inside the model and help get the small folds accurate. I probably should get some tweezers-I have used them a couple times and they seem to help.

Tools I use:
1) clean surface
2) good lighting
3) paper
4) cutting mat
5) rotary cutter
6) straight edge
7) calculator to calculate ratios
bone scorer to give my fingers a rest!
9) tweezers for fine folds
10) Water for wet-folding
11)clamps to hold parts in place
12)hair dryer to speed up the drying process
13)music to keep me sane

Is that a can of furniture polish that you forgot to mention?

The first one on the list... clean surface!!!
It would have been good to actually put the numbers ON the picture, but that's a bit out of my league!

thats quite a spread you have there

I use a dictionary.

As folding surface?

a dictionary? that's a lot of surface to fold on....

the flor is enouth for me

I use my hands

That is a full size basketball, 29.5" I believe. And I am palming it.