Is anyone else here a Womble?

[AndyT]

For my 'formative years' as a woodworker, back in the 80s, I was generally pretty skint. Skips were my best source of materials.
I made quite a few big things out of discarded wood, including a double bed.
Anyone who followed my step chair and chest of drawers projects on here will know that I still like to use old wood!

However, I don't agree with the fashion for using really obviously poor materials - rough sawn scaffold planks and bits of pallets - as some sort of visible badge of virtue. Find the good stuff and plane it properly!

 

[Wuffles]

I currently have two old bikes knocking about the container (they were being given away for scrap) that I intend to do something with, at some point. I don't mind the small bits of nonsense I "can't let someone throw that out", it's the bigger bits that cause a problem.

 

[mind_the_goat]

I have discovered that the best way to find a use for the stuff I hoard is to throw it away. It's pretty much guaranteed that within 2 weeks of doing that that object will suddenly become essential.
I get really funny looks from the guys at the tip when I ask them for it back

 

[monkeybiter]

I regularly get criticised by friends for hanging on to stuff, for years, that they would throw away in an instant. Yet as soon as they have a need for something I'm usually their first port of call!
It makes me wonder if I've fallen into some sort of unwitting symbiotic relationship and in the grand scheme of things I'm actually their storekeeper.

 

[ColeyS1]

Sooner or later I'm gonna have to start gaining or losing i think

Still got thinner bits that need dealing with !

Coley

 

[Fitzroy]

I like the pot-noodle screw pot! Mine are all those big yoghurt pots as the wife eats loads of the stuff. It's the small offcuts of wood I struggle with, I always think i'll get a woodburner one day and burn them all but....... Perhaps once the new workshop is complete I could get a little stove in one corner, you know just for wet cold rainy days, there are plenty of them here!

 

[ColeyS1]

You can never have too many empty pots !!! Be careful not to burn too much
Just got over half way

I marked all the boards on the tape then had a look at what I had to deal with

I've got about 22 boards to go so should be able to hide it. I'm gonna get on YouTube and listen to the womble song

Coley

 

[No skills]

I think we need a 'good projects for tiny bits of timber' section.

Draw sides and fronts/bits of door frames/bits of doors ad infinitum..

Then of course theres the offcuts of offcuts..