Cork/magnet strip for bulletin board?
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Jewellmartin
I want to make a small bulletin board with a block of cork, something like 1’x1’x1” tiles, and I would need three cork tiles. I can reuse picture frames for the border, and I would like to attach a 1’ strip of magnetized metal to the bottom border. Hubby wants thumbtacks or the bigger map pins to hang coupons on the board, and small magnets for the strip, but we could buy them ourselves. I have paint for the frame and a stencil to use as decoration. Could Hometalk help me with the cork tiles and the magnetic strip? Thank you for offering this for a few of us. ☺️
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Hi. I'm not sure what your question is, unless you are asking how to put it together. But here is how I made one for my home office: I bought the cork on a roll at Office Depot (I'm sure Staples has it as well). It was about a foot wide. I used a low-temp hot glue gun to adhere the cork to a piece of foam core -- I used two widths of the cork, one above the other. Then I popped the whole thing in an old frame I had painted to match my office. You don't have to "magnetize" a metal strip; as long as it is not aluminum or bronze, magnets will stick to it. If you can find a flat frame, you can paint it with magnetic paint (yes, they make that now - and we thought chalkboard paint was cool!) and skip the strip!