My wife wanted to get rid of me Sunday night so she asked for a box to hold her knitting needles:roll: She wanted to hang out with a friend and I got shop time without guilt, a win win situation. Well, this is what I came up with out of cherry and maple.
There has been much talk about my "scrap" pile, and I thought that I would
define what I consider "scrap". To me that is anything cut off a board designated for another project. If I have an 8' walnut board and I use 6' of it the remaining 2' is scrap in my eyes. Many things I make are out of re-sawn boards, I can cut a 3/8" box side and leave a 1/4" box top. As you have seen I've been working a lot with cherry, and that is from my score of someone else cherry scrap. Most of the maple I've been using is leftover from the desk I made last year. SO that just goes to prove that one man's scrap is another man's treasure. What is the smallest piece of wood you save? I have strips of maple 1/16" thick by 1/4" wide, it will be an inlay some day. I may have a problem, I can't get rid of any good wood. Dave
There has been much talk about my "scrap" pile, and I thought that I would
define what I consider "scrap". To me that is anything cut off a board designated for another project. If I have an 8' walnut board and I use 6' of it the remaining 2' is scrap in my eyes. Many things I make are out of re-sawn boards, I can cut a 3/8" box side and leave a 1/4" box top. As you have seen I've been working a lot with cherry, and that is from my score of someone else cherry scrap. Most of the maple I've been using is leftover from the desk I made last year. SO that just goes to prove that one man's scrap is another man's treasure. What is the smallest piece of wood you save? I have strips of maple 1/16" thick by 1/4" wide, it will be an inlay some day. I may have a problem, I can't get rid of any good wood. Dave