Thread: scrap wood

Originally Posted by rufflyrustic

Second idea - I've been thinking of getting a set of those circle cutters used to drill the holes for door handles and drilling out a bunch of circles from my scraps. Different sizes, poke a dowell up the centre, top it off with a candle holder - whola! one candlestick

cheers
Wendy

WENDY!!! Hush yer mouth woman!! :mad: Talk about the cheats lathe worker! You just gotta get a lathe ... okay and I just gotta learn how to use the flamin thing without jumpin 6ft every time the chisel jumps or bites a chunk that its not meant to ... Im not really a fraidy cat but those big sharp chisels and that insanely whirrling piece of wood bother the heck out of me!! :eek:

But still another fine idea... if you smooth it lots and make it fit nice and tight you may even get the thing to look like a lathed peice

Shane, you will be very pleased to know that I tried my idea out yesterday. I got 3 centres drilled out before the contraption broke on the fourth - I was actually trying to cheat to make the stand for the little sea chest. So I now have 3 centres and one completely buggered one, and a completely useless contraption. I think that idea has just gone out the with the trash , unless, of course, I get a lathe, but no shed, no lathe

I think I'll go back to weaving instead

cheers
Wendy

Theres all sorts of things you can do.

theres boxes,
then theres smaller boxes.

workshop storrage.

rip em all down and laminate em up.


As said before a lathe will soon turn a pile of scrap into shavings that are usefull in the garden.
Remember you only need a piece of wood 4 1/2" long & 1/2" square to make a pen.

pieces of wood 1 1/2 thick and 6" square make nice bases for goosekneck microphones.

small blocks for leveling speaker stands and chocking speaker boxes.

Take a piece of wood of any thickness and drill a recess with a forstener in the middle & you have a block to protect polished floors from legs on stands & staging.

Take a small block of wood and polish it nice, use it for atracting the attention of those on stage. Fling...... duhh..... hoy dopey..... the auto cue is buggered ... come & grab this hard coppy.

make a small block as above... attach a big paperclip and a stout piece of string good for getting paperwork up to the bio box when you dont want to climb all the way doun there, the extra weight helps.

Holes from speaker boxes ..... one of my favorites
clocks
carriers for saw blades
laminated up for bun feet
reinforcement for speaker pole mounts.
connector mounting plates

cheers

Originally Posted by BobL

...- once my shed is tidy (see atavar) some time next decade?

I know where you're coming from Bob, mine's the same.

To paraphrase one of the bride's sayings:

"Blokes with tidy sheds can't be trusted"


Cheers...................Sean

Originally Posted by scooter

"Blokes with tidy sheds can't be trusted"

She probably really means "Blokes with sheds can't be trusted" but is being tactful.

isn't actually doing anything in there!

Small bits of wood are great for making.....boxes, salt & pepper shakers, coasters, napkin rings, kids toys, kids blocks (well sanded and oiled), kids craft stuff....with their own smaller (but still real) tools, whittle small bits of softwood to make toy animals, parts for jigs, laminate to make a bigger bit of wood....
The list goes on!

Originally Posted by rufflyrustic

Two other ideas for scaps

Set up a box that the kids can rummage through and happily play with - ok supervision will be needed, but the fun and joy of being with them, teaching a few woodwork skills and the joy in their eyes when they build something is just sooooo wonderful.


cheers
Wendy

Great Idea that can go further. Today I had about 100 olive wood blanks that I had cut to make drink coasters but due to thickness and cracking I decided that they were not profitable so I gave them to an Early Learning Center (flash name for a kindergarten) and they will use them with the kids to play with!!!