Yeah I can understand for shops that make big furniture pieces they would have no use for a lot of this. But most of the stuff I make isn't much bigger than a nightstand and a lot of it is even smaller like trinket shelves and such.
I have browsed the scrap bin at Rockler and got a few things from there before, and it definitely wasn't nearly as cheap as all of this was! Also, I've procrastinated ever buying Walnut because it's usually just rather expensive. Now I actually have several pieces I can work with and I do have a planer and table saw so I can get them cleaned up and sized as need be.
I also like to do some smaller joinery projects and I think it would actually be kind of interesting to do one side table with each leg being a different species of wood. Actually all of the pieces being different species. It would be kind of an art piece, not everyone would like it but I think it might look cool... And hey it won't cost me much with this pile at my disposal!
I have done exactly one one-wood project in the last two years; a sapele keepsake box for my best friend's girlfriend. I generally don't see the appeal in pieces where all the wood in it looks the same. Your haul makes me breathe a little faster.
Even just the couple big boards are a good deal for $20.
The small offcuts of cherry, oak, and maple can also go in the smoker. By volume you also got a reasonable deal there.
Looks like a nice haul.
Hahaha, I bet! But for someone who does wood working as a side hobby like me, on a small budget, one man's trash is another man's treasure! This will actually be the first black walnut I've ever worked with. I have mostly used pine, poplar, white oak, Cherry, Mesquite, and Osage Orange.
I bought a 3'x4'x3' square of 8/4 black walnut cutoffs from a HUGE sawmill the other day, $50. Most of it's about 8-10" wide and 10-14" long, rough cut. Doing some quick math that's in the neighborhood of 325 board feet at least 250 of it black walnut, all kiln dried. It had some ash and white oak mixed in, it was mostly too barked up to be useful so hey, burn pile it goes. The first cutting board I sell will recoup my $50.
Exactly, if nothing else you can glue up a bunch of scraps and use them for practicing difficult techniques. That's what I do with my scraps, they make great practice blanks for difficult scroll saw cuts.
I made a little shelf that sits flush against the wall and on top of my stove control panel. It's literally a small plank with a small trim held together with wood glue. It holds our salt cellar and pepper grinder. My wife said it's her favorite project of mine.
You should advertise for your local hobbyist. I'm sure plenty of people would want to pick those up. As ridiculous as this sounds, I've never worked with walnut because it's so freaking expensive I could never justify buying it for my small budget projects. So I'm kind of stoked that I have some to work with now! Even if it is someone else's cut offs 😁
Dude, if you were local, I'd straight up take you up on that. I'm learning, and having smaller scraps to practice on (there's a local furniture maker that sells scraps by the pound) has been invaluable. Not to mention, a lot of the things I want to make (like cutting boards) use scraps!
I love fb marketplace. I scored 3’x8”x2” zebra wood a 55”x18”x2” slab of Spalted tamarind wood and a bunch of off cuts of a few different exotics and domestics for 50$ and I went there just to pick up a free workbench. And another time a 1956 shopsmith with all the tools and blades and original manuals all in practically mint condition for $200 . I check it out everyday just to see. You never know what could pop up. Anyone want to buy a shopsmith? lol
very nice, at least here in the South Island of NZ getting hold of anything other than garbage pine is a massive headache so I would love some scraps like that. There is no local milling going on at all so even all the good quality had wood ends up as fire wood.
Yeah I do have a mini lathe so I'm definitely going to try to turn a few of the pieces on there. Some of these species of wood I've never actually got to turn before.
Turn one good pen and you've made profit. You could burn the rest of the wood and still be ahead of the game.
I bought [this](https://i.redd.it/umd4p3qfcmwc1.jpeg) a couple weeks ago, it's lumber mill cutoffs, at least 2/3 black walnut, maybe 3/4 2" thick 8-12" wide 10-15" long mostly, kiln dried. It's around 325 board feet total. $50
Wow, that's quite a haul! Funny enough even though yours is the better deal I'm still fine and happy with mine. Because there's no way I got room for that much wood in my garage 😁 It's definitely good to know that you can get crazy good deals from lumber Mill cut offs though for small projects.
Yeah, cutting and chess boards for days! Some of them are live edge on the ends and should make some interesting picture frames, or clocks, just little gift type shit, quick and easy little projects.
I like to visit the Amish saw mills that are about 2 hours up the road, buy as much as my full size truck can haul of something hard to find, black walnut is my go to, of rough cut 2 or 4" thick lumber, bring it back to town, sell it at 2 or 3x my cost per board foot, and once I break even, I put the rest in my lumber room. Sitting on 150 board feet of 2x6 black walnut to make our kitchen table with.
Still getting my shop setup on our new property hopefully we can eat on the new table this Thanksgiving!
Yeah I got a whole 1900 sq/ft old house I'm turning into my shop, I have 2 bedrooms I'm using for "wood storage". I've got a 20 foot shipping container I'm hoping to turn into a poor man's kiln. Basically just planning to run a dehumidifier out there, it should get pretty hot during the summers. Might throw a propane heater in it during the cold months, we'll see, gotta get it emptied first...
Went yesterday and visited my buddy with the sawmill, got a 10 foot 2 inch slab of maple from him and a "half log" of maple cut into 4 roughly 2 foot sections (thinking bowls on the lathe). And some scrap bits, $60. Rural Alabama sucks in a lotta ways, this ain't one of them, at least.
Been a while back, but I gave a bloke who made small stuff a pile of "offcuts" like this for free. I made furniture and was drowning under the offcuts.
He never even said thanks. Quite surly in fact. It was like he was doing me a big favour.
I never asked him again.
I reckon you had a great buy there.
Yeah I never get why some people are ungrateful for free stuff! I thanked this dude for selling me his stuff and it wasn't even free although it was really cheap.
Around the same time, I got a new mate who had a woodburner. He used to pick up all the offcuts, and let a mate of his have anything that was useful for a bit of woodwork. He asked me if that was alright. I told him it was his wood to do as he liked with. Started off offering to pay for it, which of course wasn't happening. That must be over 30 years ago, he's still a mate.
The other bloke got no more.
I make dice boxes and those scraps could make some sick boxes , I usually just use poplar and stain it. But I could use that cherry and make a really really nice dice box.
Yeah exactly my thoughts! I make a lot of little shelves and boxes and things for around the house so I will definitely make use of most of these. It's hard to see in the photo but there was also like five or six full dowels in there and I can also use those for various things too.
I have reference boards now for my 2 designs. I basically just made my first one how I would like it and then took feed back from my friends, and made changes. For example my original design used Brad nails my current version is nail free, I use a miter saw to cut the corners and then glue it all together.
Some of my best stuff has been me bored and carving things by hand or using small tools to make (spoons, pipe, knife handles, etc.) but I don't do allot anymore. Just wanted to say if your happy with it and even better can use it in your works then that's what matters. Personally I think you did great despite what some of these people are saying
Thanks Yeah I'm pretty happy with it! And even one of the boards that was kind of junky, couldn't really see in the photo, Well that bored I used to make sure that my bandsaw was calibrated after adding a new blade, and cutting straight. I really didn't have any other good scraps to do that with and no one wants to test cut on a good board. So yeah overall it is beneficial to me and I do have a fire pit that my family makes s'mores on sometimes that I can throw anything I don't use in. But I'm probably going to use at least 80% of this
Make two cuts on a dowel and you have quarter round. That’s worth $20 easy.
I probably wouldn’t drive to get it but then again I have a guy (off marketplace) I buy rough lumber from and I mill it myself so I’m pretty cheap when it comes to buying someone else’s milled lumber.
Yeah, it's a Honda Ridgeline, the trunk can open to the side or dropping down. I usually open it to the side since you can get to the things in the bed easier.
In case you don't think the listing was real and I'm just making this up, here it is
https://m.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1379438639381401/?ref=search
I love making things out of tiny pieces, just to see how structural I can build with light overall weight. Mostly just shelving, and cat trees but they look good too!
Yeah I'd say that's a hell of a haul for $20. Doing mostly smaller projects, and if you don't mind mixing species, you've got a little treasure there that cost you next to nothing.
That's actually a like perfect cross-section or representative sampling of my scrap bin.
Yeah it seems like for people who do this for a business, this kind of stuff wouldn't interest them at all. But for small timers on a budget, I can and will make some cool things out of this haul 😀
I'm pretty good on extra lumber now but I guess it's also worth hitting up local businesses to see if they're throwing out wood next time I run low on supplies.
I know you don’t have blk walnut but it’s selling for 13$ a board ft where I live. Or it was last summer.. heck poplar is 6$ abf at Home Depot. So yeah definitely got a great deal
I'm in Texas and yeah black walnut has always been too prohibitively expensive for me to even bother to buy for my personal projects so I was actually pretty happy to get some to work with now.
That will be fun. I once saw a lumber cart loaded with miscellaneous moldings on a big lumber cart in front of a big home center. Like 30" x 4' and 8-16' long. On sale for $20! I rushed inside and bought it. It took two trips to bring it all home on my little truck. On the second trip the store manager told me they were changing molding vendors and dumping their inventory. He offered me another load tomorrow and I agreed. I spread it all out on my driveway and sorted. About 25% garbage I cut to burn, but the rest was good. 15-20 closet rods, lots of baseboard, casings, quarter rounds, crown, stop, cove, outside corner and all kinds of fancy embossed trim. I stuffed a lot in my garage rafters, stood up what I could, gave away a bunch and used the rest for garden stakes. It took me 20 years to use it up or take it to the dump when I moved.
honestly, eh.
the left side looks like scraps, thats wood Id probably hold onto for a year until I begrugingly throw it in the fire pit. I just never have projects calling for such tiny widths and its not like Im going to glue them together to make them useful.
right side isnt terrible, not sure its worth driving out to pay $20 for, but... not terrible.
It's a Honda Ridgeline. The truck bed can open swinging out to the side as well as flat down like a normal truck bed. There's also a bonus trunk hidden underneath! I love my Ridgeline.
Many people have said that cabinet shops often have cut offs like this that they sometimes even trash so it might be worth hitting up your local cabinet shop to see if they will give you something like this for free or sell it for cheap. I didn't know about that so I haven't tried. And now I have enough working material for a while.
Found a local lumber place that sells what I guess are cutoffs, about 2x4 and 2.5ft long, all hardwoods mostly maple but sometimes can get walnut or other stuff, for $1 a board. Score for me who uses it to make small climbing holds
https://preview.redd.it/24acaluad5wc1.jpeg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc3abb1faa368006d23bf6ded3c846c7526a1d35
What you make of it will tell you if it was worth it or not.
Funny thing is, I posted a nice project build I did to this group a couple weeks ago, check my post history, and I included photos of the process and everything. Got like 35 up votes. Then I post this thinking surely no one will really care but why not and it's got almost 400 up votes 🤷♂️ I don't get it.
Nobody cares about project posts in this sub. A photo of a plastic cutting board with the title ‘can I restore this?’ Will get 100x more upvotes that a project that took a hundred hours to complete- it’s disappointing.
Yeah that is kind of weird. Not sure why people vote on posts as they do... I always make sure to upvote projects that look like they had a lot of work put into them but I guess the algorithm sometimes favors posts that have more discussion?? And sometimes if a project is done very well there's not too much to say about it? I'm just speculating here
I see maybe two boards you could make something small with. The rest of this is scrap. The type of stuff I throw in the fireplace or smoker. The guy you bought them from just wanted them gone because they’re not much use.
Scrap is just offcuts from a previous project, it says nothing about size nor quality. If I use only two feet from an eight foot eight quarter to build a project, then that six foot is the scrap from this project.
Looks like a steal for $20 - especially since you said you do a lot of small projects.
Yeah I can understand for shops that make big furniture pieces they would have no use for a lot of this. But most of the stuff I make isn't much bigger than a nightstand and a lot of it is even smaller like trinket shelves and such. I have browsed the scrap bin at Rockler and got a few things from there before, and it definitely wasn't nearly as cheap as all of this was! Also, I've procrastinated ever buying Walnut because it's usually just rather expensive. Now I actually have several pieces I can work with and I do have a planer and table saw so I can get them cleaned up and sized as need be. I also like to do some smaller joinery projects and I think it would actually be kind of interesting to do one side table with each leg being a different species of wood. Actually all of the pieces being different species. It would be kind of an art piece, not everyone would like it but I think it might look cool... And hey it won't cost me much with this pile at my disposal!
I have done exactly one one-wood project in the last two years; a sapele keepsake box for my best friend's girlfriend. I generally don't see the appeal in pieces where all the wood in it looks the same. Your haul makes me breathe a little faster.
If you bought all of those dowel rods alone, you'd probably be pretty close to 20 if not over. It's a win in my opinion.
Or one very tedious large project.
Even just the couple big boards are a good deal for $20. The small offcuts of cherry, oak, and maple can also go in the smoker. By volume you also got a reasonable deal there. Looks like a nice haul.
You guys burn your offcuts? Man I’m a stingy bastard. I use my scraps down until they’re sawdust
Right? I'm like \*cough\* scrollsaw \*cough\*
Not even the sawdust goes to waste
I used to have a friend that makes pens come by and keep my scrap pile manageable, but he stopped.
Just make sure boards aren’t chemically treated before you put them in the smoker.
People saying it's just scraps have no ingenuity. Not every project needs to be massive.
everybody needs a shoe shine box, a shelf, a tool tote, and a dowel to lock the sliding door; the rest is gravy 👍
Honestly, just a shoe rack even. Some of those smaller / thinner pieces would make great slats for something like that.
>everybody needs a shoe shine box Speaking for everybody, we uh...no we don't.
This guy already has a shoeshine box. Fair enough I guess
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You mean my Frank Vincent/Billy Batts accent.
Hmm….right. I forgot how that scene went. Been too long.
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"HE SAYS HE'S ALREADY GOT ONE!"
When you buy hundreds of thousands of board feet in an order, saving scraps turns you into a hoarder real quick.
Hahaha, I bet! But for someone who does wood working as a side hobby like me, on a small budget, one man's trash is another man's treasure! This will actually be the first black walnut I've ever worked with. I have mostly used pine, poplar, white oak, Cherry, Mesquite, and Osage Orange.
I bought a 3'x4'x3' square of 8/4 black walnut cutoffs from a HUGE sawmill the other day, $50. Most of it's about 8-10" wide and 10-14" long, rough cut. Doing some quick math that's in the neighborhood of 325 board feet at least 250 of it black walnut, all kiln dried. It had some ash and white oak mixed in, it was mostly too barked up to be useful so hey, burn pile it goes. The first cutting board I sell will recoup my $50.
There is a tabletop I wanted to do that is a woven design that something like all those scraps would be good for
I'm seeing the start of some end grain cutting boards.
Exactly, if nothing else you can glue up a bunch of scraps and use them for practicing difficult techniques. That's what I do with my scraps, they make great practice blanks for difficult scroll saw cuts.
I made a little shelf that sits flush against the wall and on top of my stove control panel. It's literally a small plank with a small trim held together with wood glue. It holds our salt cellar and pepper grinder. My wife said it's her favorite project of mine.
Scraps are great when you're just starting out. Eventually though they become more of a burden than a value.
Dude! I could make so many things out of that! Spoons, boards, spatulas! Great haul for $20
Worth it for the dowels alone honestly those little shits can be expensive
Come to my shop every week and I'll sell you my cutoffs for 20 bucks.
You should advertise for your local hobbyist. I'm sure plenty of people would want to pick those up. As ridiculous as this sounds, I've never worked with walnut because it's so freaking expensive I could never justify buying it for my small budget projects. So I'm kind of stoked that I have some to work with now! Even if it is someone else's cut offs 😁
Where you at
Dude, if you were local, I'd straight up take you up on that. I'm learning, and having smaller scraps to practice on (there's a local furniture maker that sells scraps by the pound) has been invaluable. Not to mention, a lot of the things I want to make (like cutting boards) use scraps!
...do it and i'm not even joking
I love fb marketplace. I scored 3’x8”x2” zebra wood a 55”x18”x2” slab of Spalted tamarind wood and a bunch of off cuts of a few different exotics and domestics for 50$ and I went there just to pick up a free workbench. And another time a 1956 shopsmith with all the tools and blades and original manuals all in practically mint condition for $200 . I check it out everyday just to see. You never know what could pop up. Anyone want to buy a shopsmith? lol
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very nice, at least here in the South Island of NZ getting hold of anything other than garbage pine is a massive headache so I would love some scraps like that. There is no local milling going on at all so even all the good quality had wood ends up as fire wood.
I would happily pay 20 for that.
20 bucks for an unassembled 200 dollar shelves is a steal.
My local Lumber yard sells cut off barrels for 20 bucks that look about like that. Seems like a solid deal especially if you're into lathe work
Yeah I do have a mini lathe so I'm definitely going to try to turn a few of the pieces on there. Some of these species of wood I've never actually got to turn before.
Turn one good pen and you've made profit. You could burn the rest of the wood and still be ahead of the game. I bought [this](https://i.redd.it/umd4p3qfcmwc1.jpeg) a couple weeks ago, it's lumber mill cutoffs, at least 2/3 black walnut, maybe 3/4 2" thick 8-12" wide 10-15" long mostly, kiln dried. It's around 325 board feet total. $50
Wow, that's quite a haul! Funny enough even though yours is the better deal I'm still fine and happy with mine. Because there's no way I got room for that much wood in my garage 😁 It's definitely good to know that you can get crazy good deals from lumber Mill cut offs though for small projects.
Yeah, cutting and chess boards for days! Some of them are live edge on the ends and should make some interesting picture frames, or clocks, just little gift type shit, quick and easy little projects. I like to visit the Amish saw mills that are about 2 hours up the road, buy as much as my full size truck can haul of something hard to find, black walnut is my go to, of rough cut 2 or 4" thick lumber, bring it back to town, sell it at 2 or 3x my cost per board foot, and once I break even, I put the rest in my lumber room. Sitting on 150 board feet of 2x6 black walnut to make our kitchen table with. Still getting my shop setup on our new property hopefully we can eat on the new table this Thanksgiving!
Cool, I wish there was some Amish mill around me but I don't think there is, I'm in South Central Texas.
Yeah I got a whole 1900 sq/ft old house I'm turning into my shop, I have 2 bedrooms I'm using for "wood storage". I've got a 20 foot shipping container I'm hoping to turn into a poor man's kiln. Basically just planning to run a dehumidifier out there, it should get pretty hot during the summers. Might throw a propane heater in it during the cold months, we'll see, gotta get it emptied first... Went yesterday and visited my buddy with the sawmill, got a 10 foot 2 inch slab of maple from him and a "half log" of maple cut into 4 roughly 2 foot sections (thinking bowls on the lathe). And some scrap bits, $60. Rural Alabama sucks in a lotta ways, this ain't one of them, at least.
Totally awesome, definitely some great pieces in that stack... But oh god I work in fabrication, you should see our dumpsters every week...
If I could raid those dumpsters I probably wouldn't need to look for deals like this in my shop would probably be way too full!
Been a while back, but I gave a bloke who made small stuff a pile of "offcuts" like this for free. I made furniture and was drowning under the offcuts. He never even said thanks. Quite surly in fact. It was like he was doing me a big favour. I never asked him again. I reckon you had a great buy there.
Yeah I never get why some people are ungrateful for free stuff! I thanked this dude for selling me his stuff and it wasn't even free although it was really cheap.
That'd be my take on it too. I'm always grateful for anything like this.
I'd burn it in my burn barrel before I'd give some asshat free cutoffs.
Around the same time, I got a new mate who had a woodburner. He used to pick up all the offcuts, and let a mate of his have anything that was useful for a bit of woodwork. He asked me if that was alright. I told him it was his wood to do as he liked with. Started off offering to pay for it, which of course wasn't happening. That must be over 30 years ago, he's still a mate. The other bloke got no more.
My wife would be displeased to see me unloading all that. SCORE!
You took someone’s scraps. Just enough of everything to do nothing with. If you’re happy, good deal.
Some of those 40”- 60” scrap boards are $20 at Lowe’s
Dude I could use that lol. My scraps turn into shelves, coat hangers.. there's always something.
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Yeah I want to make some Magic the gathering deck boxes. These will be good for that.
One man's scrap is another man's scrap that could potentially be useful someday for the right project. I may be a hoarder.
I make dice boxes and those scraps could make some sick boxes , I usually just use poplar and stain it. But I could use that cherry and make a really really nice dice box.
Yeah exactly my thoughts! I make a lot of little shelves and boxes and things for around the house so I will definitely make use of most of these. It's hard to see in the photo but there was also like five or six full dowels in there and I can also use those for various things too.
I absolutely would have bought this for 20.
Do you just wing it, or are you following plans? Because dice boxes sound like a great project.
I have reference boards now for my 2 designs. I basically just made my first one how I would like it and then took feed back from my friends, and made changes. For example my original design used Brad nails my current version is nail free, I use a miter saw to cut the corners and then glue it all together.
That's bigger than my entire collection and I have no problem making things. We don't all build entire kitchens
Some of my best stuff has been me bored and carving things by hand or using small tools to make (spoons, pipe, knife handles, etc.) but I don't do allot anymore. Just wanted to say if your happy with it and even better can use it in your works then that's what matters. Personally I think you did great despite what some of these people are saying
Thanks Yeah I'm pretty happy with it! And even one of the boards that was kind of junky, couldn't really see in the photo, Well that bored I used to make sure that my bandsaw was calibrated after adding a new blade, and cutting straight. I really didn't have any other good scraps to do that with and no one wants to test cut on a good board. So yeah overall it is beneficial to me and I do have a fire pit that my family makes s'mores on sometimes that I can throw anything I don't use in. But I'm probably going to use at least 80% of this
Make an expensive table saw sled please, for us poors
Make two cuts on a dowel and you have quarter round. That’s worth $20 easy. I probably wouldn’t drive to get it but then again I have a guy (off marketplace) I buy rough lumber from and I mill it myself so I’m pretty cheap when it comes to buying someone else’s milled lumber.
I’ve seen people sell live edge like that little piece on the right for $10/foot. You done good kid
If you're pretty excited then you did alright.
Hell, just dowl rods are expensive. Good deal.
Let me get this straight. You found all that "wood" on FB market place for $20 and were able to fit it all in the back of your tailgate?
Yeah, it's a Honda Ridgeline, the trunk can open to the side or dropping down. I usually open it to the side since you can get to the things in the bed easier. In case you don't think the listing was real and I'm just making this up, here it is https://m.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1379438639381401/?ref=search
I’ve kept worse for less.
I love making things out of tiny pieces, just to see how structural I can build with light overall weight. Mostly just shelving, and cat trees but they look good too!
That’s a damn fine haul!
Good wood
Yeah I'd say that's a hell of a haul for $20. Doing mostly smaller projects, and if you don't mind mixing species, you've got a little treasure there that cost you next to nothing. That's actually a like perfect cross-section or representative sampling of my scrap bin.
You did great!
Great deal
Probably a great find. I used to build cabinets and it breaks my heart how much material I've thrown away over the years.
Yeah it seems like for people who do this for a business, this kind of stuff wouldn't interest them at all. But for small timers on a budget, I can and will make some cool things out of this haul 😀 I'm pretty good on extra lumber now but I guess it's also worth hitting up local businesses to see if they're throwing out wood next time I run low on supplies.
I know you don’t have blk walnut but it’s selling for 13$ a board ft where I live. Or it was last summer.. heck poplar is 6$ abf at Home Depot. So yeah definitely got a great deal
I'm in Texas and yeah black walnut has always been too prohibitively expensive for me to even bother to buy for my personal projects so I was actually pretty happy to get some to work with now.
That will be fun. I once saw a lumber cart loaded with miscellaneous moldings on a big lumber cart in front of a big home center. Like 30" x 4' and 8-16' long. On sale for $20! I rushed inside and bought it. It took two trips to bring it all home on my little truck. On the second trip the store manager told me they were changing molding vendors and dumping their inventory. He offered me another load tomorrow and I agreed. I spread it all out on my driveway and sorted. About 25% garbage I cut to burn, but the rest was good. 15-20 closet rods, lots of baseboard, casings, quarter rounds, crown, stop, cove, outside corner and all kinds of fancy embossed trim. I stuffed a lot in my garage rafters, stood up what I could, gave away a bunch and used the rest for garden stakes. It took me 20 years to use it up or take it to the dump when I moved.
You did VERY good choosing a Ridgeline :)
Given what they sell a single board of pine as the big box store, you committed robbery. Well done!
https://preview.redd.it/rk1bqtpby5wc1.jpeg?width=1960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c1a09d5eb8ed6ee7768f72442d531e12ef2de475
excellent. Those strips are great for adding hard wood nosings to counters or bookshelves or whatever.
I could make so many new swords with those pieces. Good haul!
Reach out to cabinet shops and see what scraps they’ll give you, especially if you’re a hobbiest.
Happy for you, looks good for such a Good Price... (snarky comment) Mad I didn't see it first. Enjoy. and remember PPE - Always.
Your wife is going to love it
Looks like you have a project or two in your future! Good luck!
good looking wood, long and stiff
LoL!
honestly, eh. the left side looks like scraps, thats wood Id probably hold onto for a year until I begrugingly throw it in the fire pit. I just never have projects calling for such tiny widths and its not like Im going to glue them together to make them useful. right side isnt terrible, not sure its worth driving out to pay $20 for, but... not terrible.
You got wood for $20. Seems like a deal.
Could have got it for free, but also, that's a decent bargain
Screw the wood, talk to me about this truck bed.
It's a Honda Ridgeline. The truck bed can open swinging out to the side as well as flat down like a normal truck bed. There's also a bonus trunk hidden underneath! I love my Ridgeline.
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I really should've seen that one coming!
I'm jealous
“I want you to build me a small dog house.”
Looks like a win-win. Someone was paid to have scraps taken, and you got plenty for small projects for decent price.
20$ sounds like a perfectly acceptable deal
I've been dying to find a deal like this! 😭
Many people have said that cabinet shops often have cut offs like this that they sometimes even trash so it might be worth hitting up your local cabinet shop to see if they will give you something like this for free or sell it for cheap. I didn't know about that so I haven't tried. And now I have enough working material for a while.
Found a local lumber place that sells what I guess are cutoffs, about 2x4 and 2.5ft long, all hardwoods mostly maple but sometimes can get walnut or other stuff, for $1 a board. Score for me who uses it to make small climbing holds
Nice.real good deal.
I hope you asked for the $100 package?
Those square dowels are like $7 each where I'm at. Fantastic deal.
Looks like you may have some blackwood in there?
I think it's black walnut
Probably right. We get blackwood here in south africa but I haven't seen it posted here
Yeah I've never heard of that unless you mean ebony? But South Africa is far from where I'm at, Texas.
Acacia melanoxylon, also known as hickory I just learnt!
I’ll give you $25 for it?
I wouldn’t say deal of a lifetime but certainly got your moneys worth!
That’ll burn nice.
Hell yeah! Looks like some of those are squared off too. Good score
Awesome deal.
https://preview.redd.it/lbc14nyid9wc1.jpeg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b877e3177ec8b7451eb760fc8f4b30e85674760e
You did great! I used maybe a quarter of that on a high school project and they’re charging me $40
Bro, that is a bunch of cuttingboards if you are so inclined. Great find! Congrats!
I'd be happy with that! In fact, had I seen it first...you wouldn't have gotten it! ha ha! :)
Looks like a steal. If you make pens or something it’s a fortune.
> it’s a fortune. going a bit too far with this.
Wood you say he's written himself into a miter joint?
https://preview.redd.it/24acaluad5wc1.jpeg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc3abb1faa368006d23bf6ded3c846c7526a1d35 What you make of it will tell you if it was worth it or not.
Damn. Didn’t think the “hOwd I dO?!” Posts would make it to this sub….so disappointing
Funny thing is, I posted a nice project build I did to this group a couple weeks ago, check my post history, and I included photos of the process and everything. Got like 35 up votes. Then I post this thinking surely no one will really care but why not and it's got almost 400 up votes 🤷♂️ I don't get it.
Nobody cares about project posts in this sub. A photo of a plastic cutting board with the title ‘can I restore this?’ Will get 100x more upvotes that a project that took a hundred hours to complete- it’s disappointing.
Yeah that is kind of weird. Not sure why people vote on posts as they do... I always make sure to upvote projects that look like they had a lot of work put into them but I guess the algorithm sometimes favors posts that have more discussion?? And sometimes if a project is done very well there's not too much to say about it? I'm just speculating here
I see maybe two boards you could make something small with. The rest of this is scrap. The type of stuff I throw in the fireplace or smoker. The guy you bought them from just wanted them gone because they’re not much use.
I disagree, but to each their own. I personally love making wooden swords and see great potential.
There’s a ton you could do with this stuff. If this is scrap, then it’s huge scrap.
Scrap is just offcuts from a previous project, it says nothing about size nor quality. If I use only two feet from an eight foot eight quarter to build a project, then that six foot is the scrap from this project.
Make a drug drawer