# What to make out of 4 bowling pins?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 20, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-make-out-of-4-bowling-pins/521981 "2009-12-20T20:01:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-make-out-of-4-bowling-pins/521981/21 "2009-12-21T19:24:39Z")

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> [@needscoffee](#):
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> Hmm. The table idea sounds promising. It could make a good patio table. I’d have to go with a wood top as I can’t think of any way to attach the pins to glass without stressing the attachment points too much. Actually, I don’t know how I would attach them to a wood top, either. Because the tops of the pins are rounded, the connection point would be very weak and they would tend to wobble over time.

Flip them over - the round parts can be the bottom and the table top is attached to the flat side.

Mount them to a board at an upwards angle and maybe you can hang jackets on them?

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**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-make-out-of-4-bowling-pins/521981/22 "2009-12-21T20:04:18Z")

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> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#):
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> Go tohe harware store and pick up a short 4 by 4 and 4 headless bolts. Cut the lumber at abot 4 inches so you have a cube and paint it white. Sink the bolts on 4 sides of the cube and then attach the pins to those.
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> Give it to your sister and tell her it’s her very own bowling pin ninja star. She can put on some spandex and go fight crime with it.

Now I want to go get my own bowling pins!!

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**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-make-out-of-4-bowling-pins/521981/23 "2009-12-21T23:57:50Z")

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> [@Shodan](#):
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> A sex toy.
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> What?
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> Regards,  
> Shodan

And a gallon of vegetable oil? Or whatever it is they use to make the bowling lanes slippery?

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**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-make-out-of-4-bowling-pins/521981/24 "2009-12-22T00:01:30Z")

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You can surely fashion a pair of [nunchaku](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunchuks) out of bowling pins.

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**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-make-out-of-4-bowling-pins/521981/25 "2009-12-22T00:02:40Z")

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> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#):
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> You can surely fashion a pair of [nunchaku](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunchuks) out of bowling pins.

And you’d have an acceptable ninja turtle weapon!

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