Things you made from leftovers & offcuts

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Eshmiel

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In another thread the subject of "waste" wood came up, defined as the stuff you have left over at the end of making something - parts you had to remake becaue of a mistake or just the inevitable offcuts from sizing planks into parts or removing the bits with knots, shakes and the like. The offcuts are sometimes sufficient to make something else - something smaller and not so bothered by having the odd knot or shake in them. So, a proposition for a new thread as titled. Show uz pics of things you made from your leftovers and offcuts, perhaps including the thing that generated the offcuts as well as the thing made from them.

I'll start by picturing again three of mine (initially posted in that other thread) that began with several large oak planks to make a queen-sized bed, generating enough leftovers and offcuts to make a small cabinet for the lobby, which itself left enough remnants to make a small oak key cupboard. Post more of your own, oh do!
 

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I tend to use left over wood a fair bit and am also partial to recycling a fair bit too. It would be seldom I buy wood for small things. On the bed theme I bought a load of secondhand rough sawn New Guinea Rosewood about 14 years back to make a bed and there was a bit left over so made a gate leg table for the daughter. Now the table bits were not quite offcuts but left overs. The stool was offcuts from the table however.
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I still have a bit of the NG rosewood I think may be a coffee table one day.
Some other stuff completly from offcuts and old furniture.
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Actually the price of wood now forces you to use as much offcuts and recycled as you can. Changed days from when woodwork saved you money.
Regards
John
 
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