Shake, on Jul 21 2008, 11:41 AM, said:
I usually use black peppercorns as the cores to my rolled stars. The cheaper the better, as they are smaller, around 3mm and 1 kg cost about $8 Cdn..thats a lot of cores!
I have used black pepper too and it works great. I think the cores were a bit large, but definitely easy to roll and the stars seem to be fairly consistant in size.I have also used quinoa(?) seeds. The only problem I had was when starting to roll them, they are so small and light they were carried around in the tire and would frequently fall out until they picked up enough comp to stay down. The small seeds also produced stars of all sizes, needing to be frequently seperated.
Another thing I did with quinoa was underestimate how may cores I was making... I now have loads of shimizu B-70....