<p>In his breakaway bestseller <i>50 Things to Make with a Broken Hockey Stick<\/i>, Peter Manchester transformed the agony of defeated sticks into the thrill of a new creation, with a slap of good humour that kept readers chuckling all the way through the book. Now, with the publication of <i>Fabulous Fabrications from Busted Hockey Gear<\/i>, the hockey stick handyman has turned his creative talents to the rest of the equipment left to fester in the basement \u2014 helmets, pads, gloves, skates, and even cast-off hockey uniforms.<\/p> <p>In this oh-so-Canadian book of how-to humour, a wonderland of \u00ab\u00a0construct-o-rama experiences\u00a0\u00bb awaits devotees of rink junk. Who would have thought of an electric guitar for only $15 or a drum set made entirely of cast-off helmets? A leather skate becomes a bird or a ball cap; a dismantled helmet becomes a mask; a pair of pants becomes an amazing sling chair. Basement artistes can build a lap steel guitar from sticks, fashion a guiro from a bit of stick and a plastic knee protector, mount a row of helmets into a set of timbales, and presto! a garage band like no other. A tent, a crouching dog, a mechanical cheerleader \u2014 with Manchester’s step-by-step instructions and clear, humorous illustrations, all these things and more can rise like, well, like a squawking bird, if not a phoenix, from a mound of hockey detritus.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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