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I’m talking about scraps that would be considered too small for building boxes or drawers, much less larger furniture.
I know we keep our project scraps through the end of a project. And some of us have a pile of scraps from many projects past.
Do you toss the small stuff, or keep “just in case?”. Do you have a limit?
I try and use it for things like small projects and jigs, there is a limit but I keep all the exceptional pieces when it has figure or pine that is perfect and defect free with no knots will never get burnt, there are some pieces that if they move too much they are literally unusable, because it’s compression wood or has pith in it, and juvenile wood is a lot weaker and not much use to me. I burn hardwoods far less than softwoods, because generally there’s far more usable timber with less defects.
27 March 2018 at 12:19 pm #510332I toss scraps under my bench. If they are bigger, they go in a bin. I have also got a wood scrap box I built just to toss them in. My scrap bin has odds and ends of everything from pine, to walnut, to maple and cherry. I just can’t bring myself to throw them out. Now, there is a limit – if it is a piece of useless wood – it goes in the garbage. Useless defined – I cut into some pine the other day and the internal fibers were all separated – just falling apart. That was garbage.
17 April 2018 at 12:43 pm #527734Glad I’m not alone in my saving cutoffs or scraps of different wood.
Some are quite useless end cuts with snipes or checks,pieces with knots, wood that has warped beyond use. I throw them into a cardboard box and burn them in the fire pit on a regular basis.
Even small pieces of wood can be very useful and can save you from cutting into a larger piece. Sometimes I make tool holders to hang different tools, I make wood plugs and I just used some popular for stickers for some wood that I’m drying. I make wedges, glue blocks anything that will be useful and save me time later on a project. I do this when I only have an hour or so to work in the shop. Having said that sometimes I get ankle deep in all that valuable wood and have to clean them out, not often enough I suppose. Right now I have a piles of scraps laying around. When and if it ever stops snowing and the weather gets nice I’ll open all the doors and windows and do my Spring Cleaning! -
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