Don't laugh when I tell you where I got some of the nicest stuff for making shop jigs, auxillary fences, etc.
A friend of mine who remodels office buildings got tired of my asking him to get me some good plywood from some of his jobs to make jigs in my shop. One day he dropped off a couple of laminate-wrapped urinal dividers in the back of my truck. I though it was a joke until he told me to cut the laminate off of one edge. I thought that I would find OSB or MDF. What I found was 7 plies of wood and 2 plies of laminate for a total of 7/8 inches of very flat and stable material. A couple of shots of Windex and its point of origin is forgotten, and I do have some nice stuff for making jigs.
I will be on the lookout for thrownout latrine dividers from now on.
A friend of mine who remodels office buildings got tired of my asking him to get me some good plywood from some of his jobs to make jigs in my shop. One day he dropped off a couple of laminate-wrapped urinal dividers in the back of my truck. I though it was a joke until he told me to cut the laminate off of one edge. I thought that I would find OSB or MDF. What I found was 7 plies of wood and 2 plies of laminate for a total of 7/8 inches of very flat and stable material. A couple of shots of Windex and its point of origin is forgotten, and I do have some nice stuff for making jigs.
I will be on the lookout for thrownout latrine dividers from now on.