Got alot of rough 1/2" thick boards and need ideas for them.
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After breaking down some old shipping palates for the heavy stretchers, most being true 3/4″ by 4″ several feet long some of which are nice red oak, I have a lot of very rough looking 1/2in stock varies between 3 and 6″ wide and up to 5 foot long.I figure when smoothed I can get 3/8″ thickness out of most of it and 1/4″ out of all of it. That is some real thin wood even for panels. On the other hand, I just don’t want to toss it. The only WMC projects to go that thin are the tills in the Joiner’s Toolchest, so looking for suggestions or ideas for it.
7 November 2016 at 4:21 am #142238Not a project, but an idea…
You could laminate two or more pieces to create a piece thick enough to work with your more typical project.
Rick G.
Lightweight cutting boards; various boxes as mentioned; drawer components including sides, backs, and bottoms; backs of chests, bookshelves, and other carcasses. If you take a more traditional view so that only one face really must be true and flat, you might get a greater thickness. This is also true if you cut your pieces to close to size before flattening.
7 November 2016 at 5:10 pm #142258Small boxes come to mind. You could make tea cabinet. Those have a lot of small drawers. I seen an episode on The Woodwright’s Shop where Roy made some candy boxed for Christmas candy. Christmas is right around the corner.
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I had not even thought about not needing to flatten/square “hidden” surfaces. That does open up some usability options.@tomanagle-
Tea cabinet, like an apothecary? That is a good idea, since it has lots of small drawers and thin framework it is ideal for 3/8 to 1/4 construction. Have to look some up. Also, I am very amused by the, I assume, unintentional pun of you @name. It naturally reads as “to mangle”.7 November 2016 at 5:46 pm #142262Yes, like a cabinet to hold tea. My wife and I drink all kinds and one of those in on my big to do list.
My name is actually Thomas Angle. My my great to the 5th grandfather came over from Germany they changed his late name from Engel to Angle. To be honest I heard a log of plays on my name, but never “to mangle”. That is funny because it fits.
7 November 2016 at 6:58 pm #1422661/2″ is a nice thickness for wooden mugs made from staves (just like wooden buckets) – see my topic under “projects”. I am doing it the hard way with a joined bottom, iron hoops and no glue, but you can simplify. And if you don’t get it watertight, use it as a pencil holder.
Another nice project is a replica of the famous Galileo telescope, which was made from staves as well. One large tube and a smaller shorter one to fit into the large one. Both hold one lense at the end which is held by a groove. See here: http://www.scitechantiques.com/Adler/ (needs a bit of reading).
If you are making a mug and it doesn’t get watertight, you can still use it to store your pencils…
Dieter
7 November 2016 at 10:22 pm #142269challenge your imagination with this
- This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by Hugo Notti.
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That is a cool link to Galileo’s telescope. I happen to have a book on coopering, so something in that vain is possibility. Veneer Inlay’s are still outside my confidence level.All these great ideas are going to be good for keeping SAD’s away this winter.
8 November 2016 at 8:15 pm #142295Ehisey, have a look at the christmas project “wooden starts” (or so) by Paul Sellers. If you can do this, you can probably do the veneer stuff too. The video covers various useful techniques for this work, and it is November anyway 😉
I am not a fan of Christmas stars, but I might give it a go too.
Dieter
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