Lockable weaving strips can be made by hand using pinking shears to cut strips of the appropriate width, and then enlarging the bottom of some or all of the regularly-spaced pinking-shear notches with a hand punch. In the examples above pinking shears with 5 mm tooth spacing and a hand punch with a 1/8-inch diameter hole were used. It proved difficult to keep the pinking-shear notches perfectly in phase on both sides over an 11 inch run since multiple cuts and re-registrations are needed over that distance. The holes were aligned by eye to just barely reach the bottom of the appropriate pinking-shear notch.
The width of the pictured strips at the narrows between pinking-shear notches is 0.40", 0.65", and 0.85". These strips lock fairly loosely but can accomodate four layers at the locked crossing (as is necessary when two splices coincide at a crossing), as shown below.
