Browsing through abook that I recieved for my birthday and I came across this little gem. I can finally use up all the small skinny scrap that has been around forever. First I routed & ripped the strips, Then sanded, stained & poly’d the strips prior to cutting the pieces. When cutting the pieces I set up two chop saws. One for the trimmer and one for the final size. As you can see by the pictures that I try to cut as close as possible to the waste, this gives me the max amout of pieces per strip. Ceramic tiles are square so one size does all 4 sides. Hope you like it
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jockmike2
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#1 posted 1833 days ago
Very very nice, the dark wood enhances the white tiles. mike
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lew
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#2 posted 1833 days ago
Beautiful work,
Well, it looks like you have your Christmas presents ready.
Lew
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Scott Bryan
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#3 posted 1833 days ago
Eagle,
You did a good job on these and nice use of “scrap” material too.
Thanks for the post.
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GaryK
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#4 posted 1833 days ago
Great use of wood. Nice job.
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#5 posted 1833 days ago
Good Idea… And Lew’s idea of using them for Christmas presents is a good idea too.
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Dusty56
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#6 posted 1833 days ago
very nice work …what are you using for a blade in your chopsaw ?
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jjohn
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#7 posted 1833 days ago
I love ideas where you can use up some of the scrap wood. Came out really nice.
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sharad
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#8 posted 1833 days ago
Very good use of the scrap up to the last milimeter. The white slab looks nice. Any other light color would also look good. I presume it is used for keeping hot vessels.
Sharad
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Grumpy
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#9 posted 1818 days ago
Great job Eagle. I never throw out scraps except the tiny bits.
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