Overly obsessed with scrap or what?

I love Dougs idea I plan to try this soon.

-- Patrick, Helicopters don't fly. They beat the air into submission.

I seem to keep all kinds of scraps, odd shapes and lengths, I have the same problem… :(

-- Randy "You are judged as much by the questions you ask as the answers you give..."

I keep all my scraps and have made some stuff out of them before.

-- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein

Anything I can make a tooth pick out of is still valuable ;-))

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence

I recently saw a mosaic made from very small wood pieces. I am now convinced that there is no such thing as a scrap.

-- brown shoes don't make it...

I’m pretty quick to get rid of scraps of the cheaper woods. However, I also work with expensive exotics and I keep even very small pieces of exotics.

Exotics are often used for small accept pieces and, thus, small pieces still have value.

Also – Small pieces of exotic wood make great refrigerator magnets. It seems like everyone likes refrigerator magnets made with nice pieces of exotic wood. I know I have made and given away over 100.

-- Rich, Cedar Rapids, IA - I'm a woodworker. I don't create beauty, I reveal it.

Great idea on the refrigerator magnets. I keep all my scraps too. I’ll usually keep them around to use as stop blocks, clamp protectors, or test pieces (such as testing the depth of a cut on a router). I hardly actually end up using them in projects though.

-- "hold fast to that which is good"

Toss a piece of wood !!! How dare you even say that !!!!
Yea I’m guilty but I always find myself using them

-- MARK IN BOB, So. CAL

Scraps? What are scraps? Do you mean useful small pieces of wood?

-- Every step of each project is considered my masterpiece because I want the finished product to reflect the quality of my work. http://www.FineArtBoxes.com

I’ve made some small items guitar picks, business card holders, stir sticks, jigs etc. I thought I was having a separation issue with getting rid of the smaller pieces J/K. I never thought of the idea of a refrigerator magnet, good idea.

-- An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin

I only regret throwing things away, but then I have over 1,000 sq feet to fill up. I make my assistant go through the scrap box to throw things away. I keep everything.. I don’t even want to see what he tosses, but I told him any thing pretty gets saved.. that I check out and he has a good eye.

-- ~ Eric P Jorgenson: Jorgenson Design

If it doesn’t fit on the lumber rack, it goes into the wood bin. If it isn’t reclaimed for a project by Christmas time or Camping season, it goes into the fireplace/campfire.

If neither of these happen, I get yelled at by the wife to clean out the garage ‘cuz she’s tried of tripping over my scraps overflowing the wood bin!

-- "Hard work is not defined by the difficulty of the task as much as a person's desire to perform it.", DS251

I build scale models, so I use small pieces of wood. I have kept small pieces of wood for years and as soon as I get rid of it, a day or two later, I am in need of that small piece.