finished products.
Well-after pondering what to do beside burning in the firepit, I hit on a simple project to make something kind of useful out
of those spent pieces.
In general, I wanted to :
1) consume as much of the unknown dimension scraps as possible- this meant the working unit had to be pretty small as my scraps vary in size but tend toward small sizes..like cutoff 2x4 material etc.
I ended up settling on sticks about 1/2" square by atleast 3" long. At this size, most of my scraps could be used to
form at least 1 if not a lot more "sticks".
2) Don't make it overly complicated to end up with a working unit of some sort. Otherwise I'd get bored of making the building blocks which would
not help reduce the scrap pile. So I wanted to limit tool use to bandsaw and sanding disks.
3) Figure out something to make from the sticks. Well-with a simple building block, the skys the limit. As a first test product, I made some funky coasters.
You can see the progression from left to right.
1. bandsaw sticks and dimension with sanding disk.
2. glue sticks into a flat "board"
3. glue "boards" into block
4. bandsaw block to make coaster shape
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Sanding the sticks could be quite time consuming, and they are too small to send thru the planer without rigging up a carrier etc. So i made
a little jig to ride the fence which holds 6 sticks at once and gaps the sanding surface away from the fence and fingers...also made from scraps
Shown in the pic is the conical sanding disk, which Id hoped would work well but didnt (not sure why) so in later trials Ive been using the flat sanding disk with more repeatable results. - sandingjig.jpg (152.4 KiB) Viewed 2323 times
