separate dinosaurs/animals:

Almost all hollow plastic animal toys are manufactured in two halves, joined together in the middle - the front half and the back half. Using a sharp hobby knife, the joining seam can be cut and the toy animal is cleanly in 2 parts.



drill joining holes:

To allow the cob holders to fit together small openings slightly larger than the diameter of the tines was drilled into the front face of each cob holder. I pressed the sharp tines into the plastic face to make a small mark, then drilled through the entire handle at the mark point. Make sure your drilled openings are larger than the diameter of the tines. For mine I used a 2mm (1/16") bit.



plastic cob holder profile:

The cavity inside each half will be slightly different, and the profile of the corn cob holders may need to be trimmed to fit inside. After dry-fitting the cob holders inside each half, use a marker on the inside portion of the cob holder to indicate which animal half it belongs to. I added another mark to show which end faces upwards, too.



capping ends:

Since my design allowed the halves to be joined back together when not in use, the exposed tines needed to be covered as they protruded through the plastic handle. If left uncovered, the tines would be buried and stuck when the holders are cast in resin. To solve this, I cut the caps from some glitter glue I found at the Dollar Store. The caps were cut to the right height, then placed over the protruding tines when the two corn cob holders were joined together. Hot glue was used to join the caps to the backside of the cob holders, and more glue was used to fill in any openings in the plastic where the tines were exposed; making each cob holder airtight inside.