| Project by NiteWalker | posted 09-18-2011 03:48 AM | 3205 views | 1 time favorited | 8 comments |  |
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I just wanted to post a couple of things I do with the scraps I end up with.
When I build my small arcade boxes (I sell these to support my tool hobby/obsession), I always end up with small cutoffs. A lot of guys would throw these in the wood stove; they’re usually small (2 1/4” x ~7”). Instead of throwing them out I make small cauls for gluing up my boxes. I have the bucket about half full.
And from ripping boards to width, I usually end up with long offcuts. I rip these to 1/8” strips and then cut to 8” lengths for finish stirrers. They really come in handy.
Thanks for looking!
-- He who dies with the most tools... dies with the emptiest wallet.
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SalvageCraft
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#1 posted 09-18-2011 03:53 AM
Neat! Do you have any pics of the arcade boxes? I’m not even sure I know what an arcade box is! Is that like a pacman gaming console?
-- Jesse --
NiteWalker
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#2 posted 09-18-2011 04:03 AM
Sort of! These are built for current consoles. I just build the cases, the user supplies and installs the parts.
Here’s a walnut case I made:
I use loose tenons to put them together:
I enjoy building them and they help support my woodwokring hobby/obsession, so I’m happy! :)
I’m waiting to get mine done so I can post it as a project.
-- He who dies with the most tools... dies with the emptiest wallet.
Doug
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#3 posted 09-18-2011 06:34 AM
Great use of scrap. I keep little cut-offs like that around for a variety of things. One of the main reasons is so my kids can have something to sand when they want to do something in the shop.
-- Doug
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#4 posted 09-18-2011 06:38 AM
Thanks. The cauls I’ve been doing for a while, the finish stir sticks came from me going through the freebies from the borgs too quick. I figured I make a ton of these narrow cutoffs, time to put em to use! :)
-- He who dies with the most tools... dies with the emptiest wallet.
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#5 posted 09-18-2011 07:26 AM
thank´s for the tip :-)
Dennis
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#6 posted 09-18-2011 06:43 PM
Nice idea, I am always in favour of putting scrap pieces to good use.
Taff
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#7 posted 09-19-2011 12:47 AM
You sound like me. I don’t throw Anything away!! I have been self employed in woodworking for 20 years and back in 2001 I had 100bdft of FAS grade soft maple come up missing. Come to find out employees were “Throwing out” good lumber as scrap and coming back n the middle of the night to fish my lumber from the dumpster. So I got rid of the bad apple employees and soon realized, we didn’t need a dumpster anymore as some of our products have pieces as small as 3/4 X3/4X3/4. And we also actually rip long off cuts into 1/8” thick strips for installing lining in caskets. I like your ideas on using small pieces for clamping cauls.
-- Michael Mills, North Carolina, http://www.scicaskets.com
NiteWalker
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#8 posted 09-19-2011 09:00 AM
Glad you got rid of those guys! >:(
I don’t have an overabundance of wood, so I don’t mind holding on to scraps. It’s refreshing to find new uses for them.
-- He who dies with the most tools... dies with the emptiest wallet.
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