On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 11:24:19 AM UTC-4, Lloyd E. Sponenburgh wrote:


Yeah, but the curls have me concerned. Those suckers are SHARP! And
you're going to put this on a Christmas tree in a CHILD medical care
facility?

Man! Be careful! (not of you, but of how many kids amputate fingers on
that stuff!)

LS

Well first it is not in a child care facility. It will be in the Mansion that Alfred Du Pont built near the Childrens Hospital. And displayed in a room with a guide there to see that people behave and do not touch the antique ornaments on the tree ( or steal them ).

Second they curls must have been done on a lathe with a lot of horse power. They are fairly thick. I pulled them out of a 55 gallon drum using my bare hands and sufered no cuts. My wife and sister-in-law have also handled them with their bare hands and had no cuts. So while I wouldn't want to jump in a pile of them while naked, they are not all that sharp.

But it is a reasonable warning. If they wore thinner sharper chips I would not have brought any home.

Dan