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#1 ·
Knobs

Are you like me? If so, I pity you.

I can't bring myownbadself to throw away a piece of wood. Within reason, of course. Let's not be ridiculous about it, huh?

But, those pen blank cut-offs. Some of it's pretty exotic stuff.

Wood Material property Hardwood Rectangle Brick


Sure. They get put to some use, from time to time. Usually, as happy accidents, or afterthoughts.

Like this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/408589.

Or, this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/407532

Or, this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/390337

I could go on. You get the point. I'll spare you.

You know, very well, that, if you keep going with this, you're gonna wind up with boxes full of little Things looking for something to do.

I'm treading lightly.

What I did, after I finished Pen #25, was I mounted the cut-off of the Angle-Cut Canary in the pin jaws.

The "after" of it:

Gas Auto part Machine Engineering Metalworking


I made a knob that's ready to go on the future lid of a future bowl/lidded box/what have ya, that Future Mark will, or won't, make. I left a foot/tenon of 1/2", for future mounting. Or not. It's finished in YG and HS.

Tints and shades Cone Wood Chemical compound Dish


Wood Cuisine Serveware Dish Ingredient


Ingredient Staple food Fruit Wood Cuisine


Ingredient Tree Wood Dish Cuisine


Ingredient Serveware Egg cup Dish Cuisine


Thank you. And, I apologize.
 

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#2 ·
Knobs

Are you like me? If so, I pity you.

I can't bring myownbadself to throw away a piece of wood. Within reason, of course. Let's not be ridiculous about it, huh?

But, those pen blank cut-offs. Some of it's pretty exotic stuff.

Wood Material property Hardwood Rectangle Brick


Sure. They get put to some use, from time to time. Usually, as happy accidents, or afterthoughts.

Like this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/408589.

Or, this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/407532

Or, this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/390337

I could go on. You get the point. I'll spare you.

You know, very well, that, if you keep going with this, you're gonna wind up with boxes full of little Things looking for something to do.

I'm treading lightly.

What I did, after I finished Pen #25, was I mounted the cut-off of the Angle-Cut Canary in the pin jaws.

The "after" of it:

Gas Auto part Machine Engineering Metalworking


I made a knob that's ready to go on the future lid of a future bowl/lidded box/what have ya, that Future Mark will, or won't, make. I left a foot/tenon of 1/2", for future mounting. Or not. It's finished in YG and HS.

Tints and shades Cone Wood Chemical compound Dish


Wood Cuisine Serveware Dish Ingredient


Ingredient Staple food Fruit Wood Cuisine


Ingredient Tree Wood Dish Cuisine


Ingredient Serveware Egg cup Dish Cuisine


Thank you. And, I apologize.
Oh Yah! You can pity me Mark! Sometimes I toss a cut off into the trash. With in minutes I feel like I lost a friend and take it out and I apologies!
 

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#3 ·
Knobs

Are you like me? If so, I pity you.

I can't bring myownbadself to throw away a piece of wood. Within reason, of course. Let's not be ridiculous about it, huh?

But, those pen blank cut-offs. Some of it's pretty exotic stuff.

Wood Material property Hardwood Rectangle Brick


Sure. They get put to some use, from time to time. Usually, as happy accidents, or afterthoughts.

Like this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/408589.

Or, this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/407532

Or, this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/390337

I could go on. You get the point. I'll spare you.

You know, very well, that, if you keep going with this, you're gonna wind up with boxes full of little Things looking for something to do.

I'm treading lightly.

What I did, after I finished Pen #25, was I mounted the cut-off of the Angle-Cut Canary in the pin jaws.

The "after" of it:

Gas Auto part Machine Engineering Metalworking


I made a knob that's ready to go on the future lid of a future bowl/lidded box/what have ya, that Future Mark will, or won't, make. I left a foot/tenon of 1/2", for future mounting. Or not. It's finished in YG and HS.

Tints and shades Cone Wood Chemical compound Dish


Wood Cuisine Serveware Dish Ingredient


Ingredient Staple food Fruit Wood Cuisine


Ingredient Tree Wood Dish Cuisine


Ingredient Serveware Egg cup Dish Cuisine


Thank you. And, I apologize.
M'W' taking nothing away from your knobs, have you comnsidered branching out into letter openers to use up those small pieces? They are a great supplement to anyone's stationery collection… this LO kit(heavy duty one from PSI) uses 3×1" segment,
Musical instrument Wood Writing implement Office supplies Pen


Electronic component Circuit component Font Cable Plastic


Font Gas Plastic wrap Handwriting Plastic
 

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#4 ·
Knobs

Are you like me? If so, I pity you.

I can't bring myownbadself to throw away a piece of wood. Within reason, of course. Let's not be ridiculous about it, huh?

But, those pen blank cut-offs. Some of it's pretty exotic stuff.

Wood Material property Hardwood Rectangle Brick


Sure. They get put to some use, from time to time. Usually, as happy accidents, or afterthoughts.

Like this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/408589.

Or, this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/407532

Or, this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/390337

I could go on. You get the point. I'll spare you.

You know, very well, that, if you keep going with this, you're gonna wind up with boxes full of little Things looking for something to do.

I'm treading lightly.

What I did, after I finished Pen #25, was I mounted the cut-off of the Angle-Cut Canary in the pin jaws.

The "after" of it:

Gas Auto part Machine Engineering Metalworking


I made a knob that's ready to go on the future lid of a future bowl/lidded box/what have ya, that Future Mark will, or won't, make. I left a foot/tenon of 1/2", for future mounting. Or not. It's finished in YG and HS.

Tints and shades Cone Wood Chemical compound Dish


Wood Cuisine Serveware Dish Ingredient


Ingredient Staple food Fruit Wood Cuisine


Ingredient Tree Wood Dish Cuisine


Ingredient Serveware Egg cup Dish Cuisine


Thank you. And, I apologize.
Anything that doesn't get sucked into the shop vac is a keeper!

Knice Knob!
 

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#5 ·
Knobs

Are you like me? If so, I pity you.

I can't bring myownbadself to throw away a piece of wood. Within reason, of course. Let's not be ridiculous about it, huh?

But, those pen blank cut-offs. Some of it's pretty exotic stuff.

Wood Material property Hardwood Rectangle Brick


Sure. They get put to some use, from time to time. Usually, as happy accidents, or afterthoughts.

Like this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/408589.

Or, this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/407532

Or, this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/390337

I could go on. You get the point. I'll spare you.

You know, very well, that, if you keep going with this, you're gonna wind up with boxes full of little Things looking for something to do.

I'm treading lightly.

What I did, after I finished Pen #25, was I mounted the cut-off of the Angle-Cut Canary in the pin jaws.

The "after" of it:

Gas Auto part Machine Engineering Metalworking


I made a knob that's ready to go on the future lid of a future bowl/lidded box/what have ya, that Future Mark will, or won't, make. I left a foot/tenon of 1/2", for future mounting. Or not. It's finished in YG and HS.

Tints and shades Cone Wood Chemical compound Dish


Wood Cuisine Serveware Dish Ingredient


Ingredient Staple food Fruit Wood Cuisine


Ingredient Tree Wood Dish Cuisine


Ingredient Serveware Egg cup Dish Cuisine


Thank you. And, I apologize.
I don't throw very much scrap out. The problem is it's all over the shop in buckets, LOL.
 

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#6 ·
Knobs

Are you like me? If so, I pity you.

I can't bring myownbadself to throw away a piece of wood. Within reason, of course. Let's not be ridiculous about it, huh?

But, those pen blank cut-offs. Some of it's pretty exotic stuff.

Wood Material property Hardwood Rectangle Brick


Sure. They get put to some use, from time to time. Usually, as happy accidents, or afterthoughts.

Like this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/408589.

Or, this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/407532

Or, this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/390337

I could go on. You get the point. I'll spare you.

You know, very well, that, if you keep going with this, you're gonna wind up with boxes full of little Things looking for something to do.

I'm treading lightly.

What I did, after I finished Pen #25, was I mounted the cut-off of the Angle-Cut Canary in the pin jaws.

The "after" of it:

Gas Auto part Machine Engineering Metalworking


I made a knob that's ready to go on the future lid of a future bowl/lidded box/what have ya, that Future Mark will, or won't, make. I left a foot/tenon of 1/2", for future mounting. Or not. It's finished in YG and HS.

Tints and shades Cone Wood Chemical compound Dish


Wood Cuisine Serveware Dish Ingredient


Ingredient Staple food Fruit Wood Cuisine


Ingredient Tree Wood Dish Cuisine


Ingredient Serveware Egg cup Dish Cuisine


Thank you. And, I apologize.
I know of a man, a very accomplished pen turner, who creates his own blanks by cutting up scraps and gluing them together in fascinatingly intricate patterns - much like those Celtic Knot Rolling Pins and Segmented vases but on a tiny scale. His specialty is an American Flag pattern which he sells for over $250 each.
 

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#7 ·
Knobs

Are you like me? If so, I pity you.

I can't bring myownbadself to throw away a piece of wood. Within reason, of course. Let's not be ridiculous about it, huh?

But, those pen blank cut-offs. Some of it's pretty exotic stuff.

Wood Material property Hardwood Rectangle Brick


Sure. They get put to some use, from time to time. Usually, as happy accidents, or afterthoughts.

Like this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/408589.

Or, this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/407532

Or, this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/390337

I could go on. You get the point. I'll spare you.

You know, very well, that, if you keep going with this, you're gonna wind up with boxes full of little Things looking for something to do.

I'm treading lightly.

What I did, after I finished Pen #25, was I mounted the cut-off of the Angle-Cut Canary in the pin jaws.

The "after" of it:

Gas Auto part Machine Engineering Metalworking


I made a knob that's ready to go on the future lid of a future bowl/lidded box/what have ya, that Future Mark will, or won't, make. I left a foot/tenon of 1/2", for future mounting. Or not. It's finished in YG and HS.

Tints and shades Cone Wood Chemical compound Dish


Wood Cuisine Serveware Dish Ingredient


Ingredient Staple food Fruit Wood Cuisine


Ingredient Tree Wood Dish Cuisine


Ingredient Serveware Egg cup Dish Cuisine


Thank you. And, I apologize.
I'm already a tin can (screws,nails, hinges, etc) and box (wood scrap) collector. Now, according to Tony, I have to become a bucket collector, too.

Duckie: That's a swell idea. But, these cutoffs are usually, maybe, an inch long, and, almost always, 3/4." I'll keep it on mind, though. Now, I've seen a couple videos where an overwhelmed pen turner dumped a whole mess of the cutoffs into a glass bowl, filled it with resin, and turned a really cool looking bowl.

John: One of my most ambitious pen projects involved gluing about a couple dozen chips together to make a herringbone pen. It fell apart on the lathe. I think that was the #12 you didn't get to see. Shame, really. It was gonna be phenomenal. I may try it again, someday.
 

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#8 ·
Knobs

Are you like me? If so, I pity you.

I can't bring myownbadself to throw away a piece of wood. Within reason, of course. Let's not be ridiculous about it, huh?

But, those pen blank cut-offs. Some of it's pretty exotic stuff.

Wood Material property Hardwood Rectangle Brick


Sure. They get put to some use, from time to time. Usually, as happy accidents, or afterthoughts.

Like this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/408589.

Or, this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/407532

Or, this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/390337

I could go on. You get the point. I'll spare you.

You know, very well, that, if you keep going with this, you're gonna wind up with boxes full of little Things looking for something to do.

I'm treading lightly.

What I did, after I finished Pen #25, was I mounted the cut-off of the Angle-Cut Canary in the pin jaws.

The "after" of it:

Gas Auto part Machine Engineering Metalworking


I made a knob that's ready to go on the future lid of a future bowl/lidded box/what have ya, that Future Mark will, or won't, make. I left a foot/tenon of 1/2", for future mounting. Or not. It's finished in YG and HS.

Tints and shades Cone Wood Chemical compound Dish


Wood Cuisine Serveware Dish Ingredient


Ingredient Staple food Fruit Wood Cuisine


Ingredient Tree Wood Dish Cuisine


Ingredient Serveware Egg cup Dish Cuisine


Thank you. And, I apologize.
I guess you guys would cringe at what goes into my wood stove.
 

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#9 ·
Knobs

Are you like me? If so, I pity you.

I can't bring myownbadself to throw away a piece of wood. Within reason, of course. Let's not be ridiculous about it, huh?

But, those pen blank cut-offs. Some of it's pretty exotic stuff.

Wood Material property Hardwood Rectangle Brick


Sure. They get put to some use, from time to time. Usually, as happy accidents, or afterthoughts.

Like this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/408589.

Or, this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/407532

Or, this: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/390337

I could go on. You get the point. I'll spare you.

You know, very well, that, if you keep going with this, you're gonna wind up with boxes full of little Things looking for something to do.

I'm treading lightly.

What I did, after I finished Pen #25, was I mounted the cut-off of the Angle-Cut Canary in the pin jaws.

The "after" of it:

Gas Auto part Machine Engineering Metalworking


I made a knob that's ready to go on the future lid of a future bowl/lidded box/what have ya, that Future Mark will, or won't, make. I left a foot/tenon of 1/2", for future mounting. Or not. It's finished in YG and HS.

Tints and shades Cone Wood Chemical compound Dish


Wood Cuisine Serveware Dish Ingredient


Ingredient Staple food Fruit Wood Cuisine


Ingredient Tree Wood Dish Cuisine


Ingredient Serveware Egg cup Dish Cuisine


Thank you. And, I apologize.
Ohh yes, I have the same illness, I hate trashing wood.
When I have to, it goes into the stove and keeps me warm.
But yes knobs and strange objects have been made, here also, just to avoid it.
Smiles,
Mads
 

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