Dumb question. What tool makes these wood shavings?

[onlinename]

Hey guys,

this might be quite an obvious one but I'm looking for a way to produce these thick non-dusty wood shavings.

What tool best produces these?

thanks for the help

 

[Woodcrafts]

A handplane; set it to take a coarse shaving.

 

[charvercarver]

A plane, unless I'm missing something.

 

[Cheshirechappie]

Yup. Jackplane set fairly coarse, working the edge of a board. Choose your wood with some care - some just break up and make dust (mahogany), some smell better than others (pine is quite pleasant).

If you want them as posh packing material, tissue paper might be a better bet - you can buy great wodges of it online quite cheaply. The shavings didn't do much to protect the flask bottom left.

 

[t8hants]

Can you still get wood wool packing? I haven't seen that for years.

G

 

[MMUK]

May sound silly but what about MegaZorb. It's virgin wood pulp and designed for horses but I've used it as a packing filler for delicate materials before and it works wonders.

 

[MMUK]

May sound silly but what about MegaZorb. It's virgin wood pulp and designed for horses but I've used it as a packing filler for delicate materials before and it works wonders.

 

[Dangermouse]

I think the man wants shavings because they look arty farty :ho2

 

[onlinename]

I think the man wants shavings because they look arty farty :ho2

that is true. I want to use them as packaging for products I will be selling.

So the question now remains, where can I find some in the region of the Southeast? :?:

 

[Reggie]

find someone with a jack plane and a length of wood Try your local chippy, furniture restorer/maker, a mate etc.

 

[Cottonwood]

This has made me think, years ago there was a product called wood wool which was replaced by poly styrene in packing boxes, (now they tend to use recycled paper....) But I often wondered as a little kid how do they get all that many joiners shavings together to pack all the boxes :lol: ....I guess they must have had a specialised machine and used cheap wood like willow or poplar?

 

[bugbear]

Hey guys,

this might be quite an obvious one but I'm looking for a way to produce these thick non-dusty wood shavings.

What tool best produces these?

thanks for the help

You want a low angle, open mouth plane. HIgh bedding angles break shavings (which is normallty desirable).

You might consider a skew mouth, to make curly shavings.

In the days of baskets, there were baskets made of shavings called spelk baskets, and the special planes used to make these
were called spelk planes. Worth looking for?

BugBear

 

[Lee J]

I've just had a dragons den moment.
I'm seeing a business opportunity here ... forget making furniture etc, lets just make and sell the shavings.

I'm on it!

 

[nanscombe]

I'm afraid that a quick Google suggests other may have already had a similar idea.


:mrgreen:

 

[bugbear]

This has made me think, years ago there was a product called wood wool which was replaced by poly styrene in packing boxes, (now they tend to use recycled paper....) But I often wondered as a little kid how do they get all that many joiners shavings together to pack all the boxes :lol: ....I guess they must have had a specialised machine and used cheap wood like willow or poplar?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_wool

BugBear

 

[Jamesc]

I have seen something very similar (it is actually wood wool) for sale on the Viking web site

http://www.viking-direct.co.uk/catalog/ ... od+wool&N=

Regards

James

 

[Cottonwood]

This has made me think, years ago there was a product called wood wool which was replaced by poly styrene in packing boxes, (now they tend to use recycled paper....) But I often wondered as a little kid how do they get all that many joiners shavings together to pack all the boxes :lol: ....I guess they must have had a specialised machine and used cheap wood like willow or poplar?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_wool

BugBear

Interesting link, thanks for posting.

I had a sift through the various shvings on my shop floor this morning, here are a few of them
Ash from a wooden spokeshave

Thick set jack plane, redwood pine

Coarse cut scrub plane, pitch pine

Medium set jack plane, pitch pine

Smoothing plane fine set (redwood pine)


As for spelk planes, if I saw an existing one I'd build one. I remember seeing one online being used to make strips to weave up chair seat's. I cant remember if the wood was planed green or dried, but they get a continuous, unbroken strip that is sufficiently pliable to bend around the chair rails without splitting, most probaly hickkory oak or ash, cant remember....obviuosly you need a stock of straight clear knot free boards to do it....

 

[onlinename]

wow more responses than I expected thanks for the tips guys.

However I think I am looking for short small curly shavings.

I had something similar come our of a forstner bit a couple of times when I drilled into sapele.
Because the item I will be packing is small and there is up to 1 cm max of bedding I don't know if the large shavings would do :/

 

[bugbear]

wow more responses than I expected thanks for the tips guys.

However I think I am looking for short small curly shavings.

I had something similar come our of a forstner bit a couple of times when I drilled into sapele.
Because the item I will be packing is small and there is up to 1 cm max of bedding I don't know if the large shavings would do :/

You could just buy them...

http://www.sylvacurl.com/packaging-and- ... g-material

(love the logo!)

BugBear

 

[Cottonwood]

You would get finely curled shavings out of a narrow rebate plane, havent used mine this last few days, so no pics...
Or you could use some saw dust instead?
Or how about custom made little cedar boards (nice grain, nice smell) to fit snugly in the box with the shape of the small flask (is that what they are?) cut out?
Good luck with your project