The pandemic arrived in March 2020 and I wanted to do something to help. I saw lots of folks were sewing masks locally for hospitals and first responders and they were being made either without nose strips to help shape and seal the mask where it fits over a persons nose or adapting household items that might not be stiff enough to keep the shape like twist ties or pipe cleaners.

I ended up giving away over 39000 metal nose strips!

Am using five pounds of the following ceramic deburring material from McMaster-Carr in the larger tumbler.

Media for Steel, Stainless Steel, and Hard Metals, Aggressive-Deburring, Triangular, 1/4" Long, 5 lbs

More about this process: https://learnmaketeachshare.org/better%20masks/2020/04/21/making-nose-strips.for-people-sewing-masks.html