Introduction: Simple Magnetic Tie Tack
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About: I am an American teaching English at Shangluo University, Shaanxi. I like making machines that do interesting but fairly useless things - I call them Quixotic Machines.
I hate pin type tie tacks as I don't like to poke holes in my ties. Here is a simple, fast, easy solution: use a couple or three magnets.
Photo 1: I used a collectible hand carved duck and glued it to a magnet for a neat unique tie tack. (Of course it is now no longer a collectible but it is a better use than having it sit on a shelf.)
Photo 2: Use hot glue or epoxy to glue magnet to object.
Photo 3: two magnets under the shirt and one on the tie. Bigger or more magnets mean stronger holding power but these are pretty strong.
Photo 4: Here I just use a naked magnet for the tie tack. You can also attach some magnet object to the tie magnet as well. I like to use steel foreign coins.
