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Nothing New Except the Glue Challenge

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#1 ·
Announcement



The only thing new will be the glue.
LumberJocks & Gorilla Glue Challenges you to reduce your footprint for Earth Day.

  • Dumpster Dive
  • Scrape pile scavenge
  • Straighten those nails
  • Reuse old screws

Create something unique by reusing and recycling old materials… The only thing new will be the glue.

PRIZES

Gorilla Glue will have 6 random winners of the following great prizes:

  1. 1 Grand Prize will consist of $200 plus 1 of each Gorilla Glue's products and a Gorilla Glue t-shirt.
  2. There will be 5 runner-up prizes; winners will receive 1 of each Gorilla Glue's products and a Gorilla Glue t-shirt.

RULES

  1. Show a before picture of your old scraps and materials.
  2. Each piece of scrap has to be less than 1 board foot and you can use as many scraps as you like.
  3. Show us your unique finished product.
  4. And remember… Nothing new except the glue!

Get your Projects in by Friday May 7th and the winners will be announced on May 10th. Are you up for the challenge?

HOW TO ENTER

  1. SUBMIT your challenge entry as a project and tag it with challenge09 (of course you may add any additional tags too):

    Note that you don't have to use 'challenge09' in the project title.
  2. You can submit only one entry - give it your best shot.
  3. Describe your process in a project story and add at least one photo of your unique finished product as well as one before picture.
  4. Explain what materials you used and how you used glue in your creation.
  5. The entry deadline is May 7th.
  6. Winners will be announced online at LumberJocks.com on May 10th.

Please note: Photos entered in this challenge will also be published on the Gorilla Glue site.

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#6 ·
I had the same question about the board foot thing. I have a MESS of reclaimed fence pickets, waterbed panels, and found wood sawn into lumber from Hurricane Ike that is just itching for a project… My only complaint is that the rules will keep me from using my pin nailer. I am getting addicted to that thing…
 
#13 ·
HEHEHEHEHE! My kind of contest!

My log in is "Scrappy" for a reason!

Good luck to all that enter.

Scrappy

Martin, What about finishing? Is having a partial can of "wipe on poly" count as scrap? Or are the projects to be submitted with out any finish on them?
 
#15 ·
I want to make a desk out of some 3' x 3" pcs of 100 year old maple that I took out of an old farmhouse (was a hardwood floor) but I don't know about making the drawer slides out of the wood. I would have to buy new and I think this would disqualify it.
 
#21 ·
If you had some finish that wasn't enough to do a large project so you were thinking of tossing it, then yes it is used. If you found some partial cans of paint/stain that someone else was throwing out, that works too. :)
 
#22 ·
"What about finishing? Is having a partial can of "wipe on poly" count as scrap? Or are the projects to be submitted with out any finish on them?"

The answer is simple: don't over-think it ;) it's a fun project so if you are reusing a partial can of poly that's fine (as Judi mentioned above).
 
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