How Much is "Enough"?

Better get the camera out and start documenting some projects…

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Your wife is absolutely right. I will send my shipping address so you can send me everything she deems more than enough. :-)

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Do the words Envy, Lust, Jealous mean anything to you. Great find – like Wayne said, there is no reason not to use some of it in a few projects.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

How much is enough? You’ll know when you get there. If you’re asking, you’re not there yet. :)

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

and won’t you be needing all this free wood when you host your big summer picnic event next year?? :)

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Lucky fellow. Have fun with it.

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

Yeah, once you’ve reached the “enough” stage I’ll send you my address as well as some money and you can ship me the “extra.” ;)

-- Owen Johnson - aka IowaWoodcrafter

I wish i could be so lucky. Free wood!

• make a little cash by making paint-grade TV stands from the stuff
• line your workshop with more shelves
• make a shoe-stand for the front closet
• make a ramp to your van/pickup for your snowblower/snowmobile/lawnmower
• cut the longer pieces into triangular wedges, glue into circle, trim the outer edge to a nice circle, add some proper legs, and sell it as a table
• < insert idea here >

There’s no such thing as too much… but you do have to make sure it moves its way out of the shop eventually, or you will run out of room for more free stuff!

-- Dekker - http://www.WoodworkDetails.com/Blog/MNagy/

damn lucky!

Free wood is the best wood! It doesn’t grow on trees you know! Oh wait, I guess it does.

-- Branden - Sacramento, California - www.ShopDogUSA.com

You have “ENOUGH” when you can no longer work in your shop, because there is no room to navigate a piece of wood around anymore.

-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28

I would say you do not have enough yet Darryl, as there is still room to stack more. I like Dekker’s ideas of the things you can build with it. I bet we see some projects soon.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

Enough is when she gets tired of the wonderful things you’re going to make for her at almost no cost, multiplied by her mother, sisters, nieces, etc. Nothing will get a spouse off yer back like of host of her sisters and family who think you’re the best thing since sliced bread. :)

Start a new family tradition: re-usable Christmas and birthday gift boxes that can continue to be passed back and forth within the family for decades to come. Can even wood-burn the family “pass-along” rules on the inside of the lids.

-- --==[ Pappy ]==--

When you can’t walk in your shop because of the piles of wood, then you have enough. I’m not there yet.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Hmmmm. I heard you were close Karson. : ^ )

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

I was waiting for a comment like that. LOL

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

i have enuff when i have to live in my shop and store wood in my house

Box bottoms from here to eternity. Great find!

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Next time I’m in NH I’ll be driving around looking for cabinet shops!

-- I've cut that board three times and it's still too short!

You could build a bunch of bird houses and donate them to a worthy (seasonal perhaps) cause.

Yes, when you can’t (or are afraid to) walk through the shop, and you have to start keeping it in the house (and your wife and kids don’t even notice it anymore)... then you have enough.

I’ve got a shop full of scrap, and hardwood hidden all over the house.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

You definately have too much – you can’t even get at your saw anymore! :)

-- Hard work spotlights the character of people; some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all!

Works great for drawer parts, baltic birch the king of fine plywood.

-- RMH Designs

Right on Darryl!! I have a customer at work that does custom woodworking. His customers pay for all the wood. So when he has scraps he just throws them away! All I’m required to do is just le them know that I want to come and dumpster dive, and I’ve got the ok! I didn’t pay for one drawer support or guide for both my Lowboy, and my Highboy. The end tables are all white oak secondary wood!! I’m going there this Friday!!

-- Matt, Houston Texas

sounds like your source is a step up from mine Matt! It doesn’t get any better than picking up free hardwood! sounds like a sweet deal!

I’ve had to stop visiting my local shop, I ran out of room to store anymore wood!

-- ~ www.darrylmasterson.com ~ www.woodworkingdungeon.blogspot.com ~

Wood is kinda’ like tools there is never to much or to many…......

-- Only the Shadow knows....................

My wife says the same thing to me “Don’t you have enough?” I have 2 cardboard drums overflowing and a triton wood rack system full of wood that I am going to use some day. I also have a source for free wood here in MI.

-- Rick Kruse, Rick's Rustics Handcrafted wood products Grand Rapids, MI

I used to pick up the reject dowels at a dowel factory. that was about 40 years ago, & I still have some lying around my shop.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

You never have to much of that, good going.

-- It’s not so much what we know that causes the trouble, it’s what we know that’s not so.