What Projects have you made from shop scraps..

Mallets come to mind, especially for harder woods.

Lew

Yep it is really hard for me to get rid of scrap wood.

Here is a little cross (~ 9” tall) I mad for my wife using scaps of cocobolo and maple.

Feather boards, runners for jigs, and most of my jigs are made from scraps of hardwood, mdf, and plywood

-- Glenn, New Mexico

Hi Carl,

I suspect that I’m like most woodworkers and see all kinds of wonderful things in the scrap pile, here are just a few projects I’ve made from my scrap pile.

All the best
Gord

Push sticks and toy cars

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

I use scrap hardwoods to turn pens to give as impromptu gifts. I always keep a few pens on hand for those times I forget a birthday or someone does a big favour for me.

-- Anything worth doing is worth overdoing

Push sticks, resaw jig for the tablesaw, featherboards, birdhouses, jigs in general, etc.

I use a lot of my extra pine scrap for setups, to make sacrificial cuts in to make sure that my router is set up correctly, or my finger joint jig, etc.

Once they’ve made the “rounds” in the shop and can’t be used anymore, then they go in a box for the woodburner in the winter.

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)

Check out my projects. I have posted a few made from drop offs & etc. bbqKing

-- bbqKing, Lawrenceville

Scraps bins or box is useful too.
What’s the criteria of a scrap anyway? The size, dimension .. is there a common thumb rule for that?

-- Regards, Woodworm

I built a cabinet for stuff in my shop with scraps of 2×6 and 2×4 lumber from a yard shed project. Does that count? Most of my projects are made from scraps which is a bit like always eating leftovers for dinner but never having firsts.

-- Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?

I’m a horrible pack rat. I have a kitchen waste basket, two cat litter containers, a Rubbermaid underbed box, two other cardboard boxes and an abandoned porch swing project heaped with scraps. Everything from 2×2x0.5” on up. My main thrust is small box work. I make my own knobs, inlay and now marquetry, I have the perhaps unrealistic goal of using them all up. Someday, if the bottom doesn’t fall out of the economy, I hope to retire to days of puttering around the shop.
I hope to live long enough to use it all up.
If the economy should tank, I should be able to stay warm for a week or so with a wood fire.

Or maybe a Viking funeral…=^}

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

I have recycled almost everything that was too small to fit into a project into coasters. I’ll post the project soon, as not all the set is ready. basically i glue together thin stripes of contrasting wood, cut on the mitre saw to horizontal stripes of varying width and glue them together again, but from different batches or flipped. you can see the process in details here

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...

I too am a pack rat with many cubby hole full of small piece of wood I will use someday. Key chains and book markers.

-- Ron Central, CA

I seem to never throw anything away, quite a few of my projects are made from scraps.

If you look at my projects, a great percentage of them are made from scrap.

This is one of my favorites.

-- -** 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

Almost everthing I make comes from the “shorts” bin at a local mill or from my own “scrap” bin. I am a cheap packrat. I hate paying retail prices for wood.