To pick up some small piles of dust and pencil shavings from the studio floor, a shovel is an essential item, but sometimes none can be found. In this case a sheet of card or paper can be deployed, but it's not a great solution until the introduction of the Shovel Sketch-Pad.
The Shovel Sketch-Pad is a sketch book that takes the form of light-weight card sheets, each of which can be torn off and used as a simple shovel. This is because two of the sides and the back of each of the sheets are pre-scored so that they easily fold over to make into a basic shovel shape.-- xenzag, Dec 01 2011 Not a simple shovel, but a complex shovel... http://www.giladori...om/PG_Vehicles.html [normzone, Dec 01 2011] sortof neat, but what [21] said. You might consider mounting the whisk/dustpan flush on the underside of a table where it isn't noticeable yet readily available.-- FlyingToaster, Dec 01 2011 The point is that Shovel Sketch-Pad is needed when there is no conventional shovel available....time to give up here for a while methinks.-- xenzag, Dec 01 2011 You could make the studio floor a grating, so the dust and pencil shavings fall through.-- pocmloc, Dec 01 2011 Steady on, [bigsleep]! We don't want to get all new-fangled and contraptionous here! Seriously tho', a standard A4 printer sheet, with the application of some quick origami, will suffice. If you're REALLY fast, you can roll up a second sheet, attack one end with the scissors, and you have a small broom too.-- neutrinos_shadow, Dec 01 2011 The problem here is the premise that piles of dust and pencil shavings need to be removed from the floor.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 01 2011 random, halfbakery