Making steel coils from an idea in MR

[Ralph]

If you had to measure the thickness of the paper, what would it be?

I've been wanting to do this for a while, have shim stock I can roll up but still wondered if superglue would hold it or just braze it together. Another thing was strapping, just add paint and line it on or cut some electrical tape possibly


Looks good

Thanks everyone! Tom, the paper I used was about the thickness of three sheets of ordinary printer paper, if that helps.

Mountain Man, I did use a dowel to start the roll but I think my problem keeping things tighter occurs when I attach another strip of paper to the already wound roll on the dowel to make it larger. Practice is probably the key.

Charlie, thanks for the feedback! Good to know. When would you expect to see silver shiny rolls or dark gray ones that I have seen photographed from time to time?

Ralph