I purchased wooden balls from Lee Valley Tools for my kayak. (Link at bottom)

Ended up just putting them in a vice and drilling out the centre. They have held up pretty well, out of the 20 or so on the boat, two cracked (not all the way through), but I was just using tung oil on them. They cost me 21 cents each, so I don't really mind replacing a few.

If you aren't in the frozen north, I have also seen them at Home Depot, and other big box hardware stores, usually in the molding aisle.

: I finished the build of my daughter's kayak and I've been playing around in
: my head with deck rigging. I've decided that I want to add perimeter
: lines. The deck rigging would be pretty tight to the deck so I'd like to
: put wood balls on them (ala Brian Nystrom).

: The deck line should come today - I'm trying to figure out where to buy the
: wood balls? Is this something that is typically at craft stores (big box
: places - JoAnn, AC Moore, Michael's, etc.)? Hardware stores? Hobby shops?
: or...?

: Thanks.

: -Doug