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It’s 10 a.m. in Gladbrook, Iowa, and down in the workshop in his basement, Pat Acton is doing what he does almost every morning: picking up matchsticks and gluing them together, one at a time. And ...

It's 10 a.m. in Gladbrook, Iowa, and down in the workshop in his basement, Pat Acton is doing what he does almost every morning: picking up matchsticks and gluing them together, one at a time. And ...

Hour by hour, stick by stick. Many would regard it as a tedious job to glue matchsticks together, wait for them to dry then repeat this process over and over again, but not this model-maker. Over the ...

Neat post on Make, reporting from the NYC Toy Fair, about these amazing models available for purchase. Using small wooden dowels (just like classic matchsticks), you too can build a locomotive, or the ...

A former firefighter has created a model of York Minster out of 80,000 matchsticks. Clive Holmes, 87, spent two years fashioning his 6ft (1.8m) long creation, which was inspired by his granddaughter ...

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It all started when vocational counselor Patrick Acton glued two wooden matchsticks together in the basement of his Gladbrook, Iowa, home. Some four decades and nearly 6 million matchsticks later, ...

Spectators marvel at the 23.6-foot-tall model of the Eiffel Tower that Richard Plaud spent 4,200 hours over the course of eight years making out of matchsticks and glue. Last month, Guinness World ...