What to do with thin cut offs? *LINK*

Re: What to do with thin cut offs?

JL work

>I give mine away to a local high school art teacher. The kids make projects of various sorts involving some hand and power tools. What he doesn't use for the art projects, he uses in the pottery class.

Re: What to do with thin cut offs?

John Lucas

>Don

I turn handmirrors out of 5 1/2" stock and picket mirrors out of 3 1/2". I glue scraps together to turn segmented ornament balls and sometimes wine stoppers out of them.

When I do small hollow vessels I often turn a contrasting wood lip. Small scraps come in handy for that.

Heat

Mike Schwing from Md.

>We make heat from them at my house. In the fireplace they go! I fill up a 55 gallon trash can with cutoffs, large and small, and it'll feed the fire for an entire afternoon/evening.

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Ron in Drums PA

>Small Boxes

Glue Blocks

Bottle Stoppers

Pen Blanks

Heat

Max Krimmel

Pete Kekel - Kentucky

>Go to maxkrimmel.com and look at the platters he used to make from small stock that he glued up.

Re: What to do with thin cut offs?

RonZ

>KNife handles, contrasting inserts to box tops, patchwork boxes, tops for the new kits that require disks like a mirror, pill box, money clip, book mark, etc.

Drill a 3/8" hole, insert a 3/8" dowel and turn a top.

It goes on and on. This is very bad for me as I have limited space and save everything.

Re: What to do with thin cut offs?

Barry Irby

>Man, I thought I had the pack rat gene. You guys got it bad. Last year I made about fifty ornaments. This year, with the off cuts from those , I'm making earrings.

Sometimes you just have to turn those SOBs into BTUs.

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Don Henthorn

>Mike and John. I sold all my equipment but the lathe and a scroll saw. I don't have a vise. Making glue ups would be a lot of work. I had much fine lumber before the auction, now I am using scraps and don't have a stove to burn them in.9-;

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Dave Peebles Lyons, Ohio!

>Hi Don,

I can't seem to throw out good wood either. Here is a pic of some small bowls that I make.

I think the biggest is about 4" in diameter. I found them to be good sellers and fun to make.

Dave

Sell them **Ebay** or Classifieds

Tim McGill

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Re: What to do with thin cut offs?

Don Henthorn

>Thanks to everyone for his suggestions. I have gotten some suggestions. As for selling them, I have never found a market for them even the nicest ones. I have put fire sale prices on them and people pick them up, fondle them and remark about how nice they feel and how good they look and then just put them back down. I am not much of a salesman.