bowl from a board

Re: bowl from a board

Love the colors.  What woods?

 

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Scrap from the junk box. Walnut, maple , mahogany, and some strange stuff.

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What does the "made from scrap" comment mean?

I see the statement so often these days, "made from scrap". What does it mean? Is it supposed to mean; ignore odd matches and odd colors, I feel happy I reduced the pile of scrap, as a newbie I can't afford wood, or something more obvious? It must mean something since there seems to be a need to say more than "a new bowl". This isn't a criticism, I'm just trying to understand this new trend.

"made from scrap"

>>>What does the "made from scrap" comment mean? (Dick Coers)

I can't answer for Ray.� To me it can mean a bit of creative resourcefulness, using something that would otherwise go to the burn barrel or landfill.

I keep a huge amount of what might be called scrap. Every time I process green wood into turning blanks or make cuts that leave rectangular pieces too small or thin to be useful to me I throw them into a tub. Pieces are rough cut on at least one side from the bandsaw. Pine, cherry, dogwood, h.rosewood, ebony, bloodwood, cocobolo, olive, everything. These have been used at a couple of area schools where art students create things with the help of glue and paint.

I have also cut and sanded "scrap" plywood into pieces maybe 4-6" on a side, squares, rectangles. Small kids LOVE to draw and color on wood, something they rarely get to do. Here's a self portrait our grandson did when he was about 3 I think - he said he had lightning coming from his fingers and fire from his toes.

Schools can make use of all sorts of things. I once took a trailer load of over 10,000 small lidded cardboard microfiche boxes to the high school art department. They used them in creative ways for years. (I saved a few hundred for myself and friends - great for organizing/storing things)

JKJ

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Thanks John. For me, wood is wood. For a while I made wooden jewelry, so even the tiniest piece of wood was useable stock. Nothing is scrap in my shop unless it is trimming cracks off the end of a rough saw board.