Fabulous Fabrications from Busted Hockey Gear

By Peter Manchester

In his breakaway bestseller 50 Things to Make with a Broken Hockey Stick , Peter Manchester transformed the agony of defeated sticks into the thrill of a new creation, with a slap of good humour that kept readers chuckling all the way through the book. Now, with the publication of Fabulous Fabrications from Busted Hockey Gear , the hockey stick handyman has turned his creative talents to the rest of the equipment left to fester in the basement -- helmets, pads, gloves, skates, and even cast-off hockey uniforms. In this oh-so-Canadian book of how-to humour, a wonderland of "construct-o-rama experiences" awaits devotees of rink junk. Who would have thought of an electric guitar for only $15 or a drum set made entirely of cast-off helmets? A leather skate becomes a bird or a ball cap; a dismantled helmet becomes a mask; a pair of pants becomes an amazing sling chair. Basement artistes can build a lap steel guitar from sticks, fashion a guiro from a bit of stick and a plastic knee protector, mount a row of helmets into a set of timbales, and presto a garage band like no other. A tent, a crouching dog, a mechanical cheerleader -- with Manchester's step-by-step instructions and clear, humorous illustrations, all these things and more can rise like, well, like a squawking bird, if not a phoenix, from a mound of hockey detritus.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0864924135
• ISBN13: 9780864924131
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 7.8"