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5th June 2006, 09:47 PM #1
Offcuts
Had a bit of a tidy up today, & sorted out some of the bits of wood lying around - you know, the offcuts that are too small to go back in the wood rack & too good to throw out. What do you do with them? What am I going to do with them? Should I resolve not to take anything from the rack until I have used up all these bits? Should I have a bonfire? Suggestions please!
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5th June 2006, 10:10 PM #2
Exactly what you have done, keep them in a pile and keep adding to it .... never throw out wood.
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6th June 2006, 12:03 AM #3
I keep all bit in a bucket like yourself but found that I would sometimes get caught on them when walking past, so I put an Occy strap around them, keeps them tight and tidy. Anything small is used a packing or strengthening block where they can't be seen, seem's a shame to chop a small bit off a length of timber for a bit that will not be seen. All the rest is firewood/kindling for the fire.
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6th June 2006, 12:08 AM #4Finger Chipper
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Something I have been doing is to put those itty bitty offcuts through the mulcher and use them on the garden or in the compost, which in turn become vegies for us.
I have also been smoothing off some of the others for the munchkins to use as blocks. It only takes a few minutes and the littlies love em.
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6th June 2006, 12:12 AM #5
If you glued it all together, you'd have a board that would cost what? 10 bucks? 20 bucks? You can't get a decent feed of fish'n'chips for that. Burn the lot and enjoy the clean workshop.
That's my philosophy.
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Burn it. Off cuts like that are usless but make brilliant kindling
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Originally Posted by Lignum
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6th June 2006, 09:31 AM #8
Ah - the old 'offcuts' dilemma. Like most, I'm sure, I have a sliding scale of what's too good to chuck out. It depends on cost and rarity - bits of Brazilian rosewood get saved down to pen blank size (got a a drawer full of pen blanks, of all sorts of nice bits and bobs, and haven't made a pen in at least 6 years!), while less desirable stuff has to be at least 5-600mm and be useable in a way that I can see or it goes onto the pile that gets scooped up at the end of the day, & cut into kindling/firewood lengths for MILs fire (don't have a fireplace, ourselves, unfortunately ).
Years ago, when I had ankle-biters, I used to chuck all the odd and intersting small bits into a carton and give them to the kids' kindy. They'd buy a bottle of aquadhere and let the kids create masterpieces with them - I still have a wonderfully imaginative lion my youngest made from offcuts and half a bottle of glue... The only trouble with that system was my kids always went for the biggest constructions, & half of every carton came home again...
So, I have about half a ute-load of precious pieces less than a metre - all sorts of woods, lots of potential tool handles, knobs, plane blanks, you name it. Only trouble is, they are scattered amongst the general chaos, and though I often have a vague idea there's a bit just perfect for what I want, I can never find it! That is, until about 5 minutes after I chop a short piece off a long board. :mad:
Job number 305 1/2 of my new shed hyper-organisation is to build a decent timber rack, with provision for shorts, so I can find that perfect bit in a hurry.
Someday........IW
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6th June 2006, 03:23 PM #9Senior Member
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I call my local high school woodwork teacher. He comes around with a trailer and collects what he can use. The rest I cut up for kindling. It's either that or get buried by left-overs and go nuts trying to save everything I might use "one day"
Richard
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