If you keep a thing for seven years...

...you'll find a use for it.

I've finally figured out what to do with the giant box (formerly containing the crappiest pollen samples ever) that my boss at the museum let me take home!

Make a very large Chakra Wheel (warning, pdf.) Cigar box? Ha!

Now I no longer feel dumb for taking that thing home. It should be cool, because I could make the wheel ratios so that the spindle has a super high rotational speed. So I should be able to create a wheel appropriate to spinning super, super fine thread.

I think that maybe I could even make different sizes of the smaller wheel to make the wheel more versatile, which would really be good, as the box is so huge.

I'm going to practice on a smaller one first...