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  1. 10th June 2008, 07:23 PM #46
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    There are some tips where you can purchase the packing crates for around $8 each. I know my local tip has three or four stacks of them with I guess 20 in each stack. I would personally prefer to see everyone using packing crate material rather than raw unused wood. The holes and staines in the crate material add to the character of the piece and some skill is required to plan your work around these features in the wood. I would be interested in a packing crate challenge and have a few ideas running through my head already.

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  3. 10th June 2008, 10:24 PM #47
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    How about old fence palings? I'm about to tear down a very beaten-up jarrah(?) picket fence down, which should yield me about 100 palings and a few posts in various conditions. Are they likely to be too hard/weathered to work with?
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    Check it for nails & then run a piece over a saw a couple of times & have a look inside, you might be surprised.
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    Picked up this pallet off a pile of them that had been dumped next to a free wood sign in an industrial area on the edge of the road in pouring rain last winter. Thought it was pine till I got home and had a look. Been stacked in the shed since waiting. I think it is some Indonesian wood. It will look better full of offcuts sitting next to the fireplace than the green plastic crate that currently fills the roll does
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