How do you make picture frames from fiberglass hockey sticks?

I want to make picture frams from old composite (fiberglass) hockey sticks but do not know how to cut them or fasten corners. Has anyone done this? Can you help me? Please|||I had never thought of a fibreglass stick as being composite, but anyway cut within the wooden part of the shaft at desired length, and bond with industrial strength super glue|||A hobby horse is a wooden or wickerwork toy made to be ridden just like a real horse (which was sometimes called a "Hobby"). From this came the expression "to ride one's hobby-horse", meaning "to follow a favourite pastime", and in turn, hobby in the modern sense of recreation.



Hobbies are practiced for interest and enjoyment, rather than financial reward. Examples include collecting, creative and artistic pursuits, making, tinkering, sports and adult education. Engaging in a hobby can lead to acquiring substantial skill, knowledge and experience. However, personal fulfillment is the aim.



What are hobbies for some people are professions for others: a chef may enjoy playing computer games as a hobby, while a professional game tester might enjoy cooking. Generally speaking, the person who does something for fun, not remuneration, is called an amateur (or hobbyist), as distinct from a professional.



An important determinant of what is considered a hobby, as distinct from a profession (beyond the lack of remuneration), is probably how easy it is to make a living at the activity. Almost no one can make a living at cigarette card or stamp collecting, but many people find it enjoyable; so it is commonly regarded as a hobby.



Amateur astronomers often make meaningful contributions to the professionals. It is not entirely uncommon for a hobbyist to be the first to discover a celestial body or event.



In the UK, the pejorative noun anorak (similar to the Japanese "otaku", meaning a geek or enthusiast) is often applied to people who obsessively pursue a particular hobby that is otherwise considered boring, such as train spotting or stamp collecting.

Whilst some hobbies strike many people as trivial or boring, hobbyists have found something compelling and entertaining about them. Much early scientific research was, in effect, a hobby of the wealthy; more recently, Linux began as a student's hobby. A hobby may not be as trivial as it appears at a time when it has relatively few followers. Thus a British conservationist recalls that when seen wearing field glasses at a London station in the 1930s he was asked if he was going to the (horse) races. The anecdote indicates that at the time an interest in nature was not widely perceived as a credible hobby. Practitioners of that hobby went on to become the germs of the conservation movement that flourished in Britain from 1965 onwards and became a global political movement within a generation. Conversely, the hobby of aircraft spotting probably originated as part of a serious activity designed to detect arriving waves of enemy aircraft entering English airspace during World War II. In peacetime it usually has no such practical or social purpose.|||I BEGAN BY CUTTING, JOINING, AND ASSEMBLING THE HOCKEY-STICK-SHAPED SHADOWBOX FRAME USING A LAYER OF FRAMERICA®S BLACK SATIN BOXER® EXTENDER #92273 AND A MATCHING CAP OF #91273. I CUT AND JOINED ONE SECTION AT A TIME, CHECKING THE SHAPE AGAINST THE STICK AS I CUT. (THE TWO ANGLES AT THE TIP OF THE STICK WERE CUT AT 70 DEGREES AND THE OTHER TWO AT THE NECK OF THE STICK WERE CUT AT 25 DEGREES.)



NEXT, I USED THE SAME FRAMERICA BLACK SATIN FINISH IN A FLAT PROFILE TO CREATE THE BACKGROUND. THIS ADDED A MORE FORMAL LOOK. I BEGAN BY CUTTING A PIECE OF ¼” PLYWOOD 16” X 68”, AND CUT IT TO THE PROPER SHAPE WITH A JIGSAW. NEXT, I STRAIGHT CUT 17 PIECES OF FRAMERICA’S 4” WIDE SATIN BLACK MOULDING #BW96273 TO 16”. I POSITIONED THE FRAME STRIPS BUTTED TOGETHER ON THE BACKING BOARD AND ATTACHED WITH GLUE AND NAILS, THEN USED A JIGSAW TO TRIM THE EXCESS BACKGROUND MATERIAL.



NOW IT WAS TIME TO ATTACH THE STICK. I WANTED IT TO LOOK LIKE IT WAS BEING SUPPORTED ON WOODEN PEGS, ALTHOUGH IT WOULD IN FACT BE HELD IN PLACE WITH WIRE TO PRESERVE ITS VALUE. I POSITIONED THE STICK ON THE BACKGROUND BRIEFLY, TO FIND IDEAL POSITIONING FOR THE PEGS. TO INSTALL THE PEGS, I FIRST PREDRILLED A 1/8” HOLE THROUGH THE END OF EACH PEG AND THROUGH THE BACKGROUND WHERE THEY WOULD BE ATTACHED. I THEN PLACED A 1 ¼” SCREW THROUGH THE BACK OF THE PLYWOOD AND INTO THE END OF EACH PEG. NEXT, I DRILLED 1/8” HOLES THROUGH THE BACKGROUND BEHIND WHERE THE STICK WOULD LAY, AND ATTACHED THE STICK WITH WIRE. THE PUCK WAS NOT VALUABLE, SO I MOUNTED IT (ON TOP OF MATBOARD) WITH TWO 1 ¼” SCREWS PLACED THROUGH THE PLYWOOD BACKING (I PREDRILLED THE HOLES FROM THE FRONT FIRST).



TO FINISH THE PROJECT, I CUT PLEXIGLASS INTO THE FRAME AND COVERED THE RAW WOOD INSIDE THE SHADOWBOX. SINCE A TYPICAL MATBOARD SHADOWBOX LINING WOULD CRUSH UNDER THE WEIGHT OF THE BACKGROUND, I USED FRAMERICA’S BLACK SATIN MOULDING #BW74273 TO LINE THE INSIDE OF THE FRAME. AFTER RUNNING IT THROUGH THE TABLESAW TURNED VERTICALLY (SLICING OFF JUST THE FACE OF THE MOULDING, TO ACHIEVE A ¼” THICKNESS), I CUT AND APPLIED THE STRIPS ONE AT A TIME FOR A PERFECT FIT, ATTACHING WITH CORNERWELD™ GLUE AND ALLOWING THE ASSEMBLY TO DRY THOROUGHLY BEFORE FINAL FITTING. FIT NORMALLY WITH A PAPER BACK AND TWO D-RINGS FOR HANGING.



WHILE DRAMATIC IN PRESENTATION, THE PROJECT WAS COMPLETED WITHOUT USING UP A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF SHOP OR DESIGN TIME. WHY NOT THRILL YOUR CLIENTS WITH SOMETHING TRULY UNUSUAL!