Scrap wood

[jrc]

This is a few pieces of scrap wood I got today from a mill that make alot of flooring. He burns this in his kiln. First is crotch walnut the other is whith oak and ash. This guy has given me some of the wood I have used.

 

[JimGo]

Is that white oak curly or is that from the saw? The walnut and the oak should make great pens! Not sure about the ash, except maybe that middle piece where the color changes; that might look interesting. Well, and the middle of the bottom piece where the grain patterns come together. I'm still new at this, so forgive my ignorance, but won't the grain at the bottom left of the bottom piece be too broad for use in a pen?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking the wood; they're all REALLY pretty! I'm just still trying to get a handle how how a board translates into a pen blank, and into a pen.

 

[driften]

Cool! Good save. That wood should turn out nice for pens or other turning projects.

 

[alamocdc]

Great find, Jim! Once in a while I can pick up pieces like that in Indiana, but it takes more patience than I tend to have sometimes.

 

[jrc]

What I do is cut it all up into pen blanks and pick out the best. The walnut I will use almost all of it. The white oak about 2/3 and the ash, the curly parts and around the knot. What I got today was about all I could carry in short pieces and will get maybe 150 pens from it. Check you local woodshope the use hardwood and you might be suprised what they throw out.

 

[Fleabit]

You should get some really nice looking stuff out of those. Nice scrap.

 

[rtgleck]

Great score there... Nice job. SOme creative cutting in there and you should get some great looking pen blanks.

 

[53Jim]

Nice find. If you have more than you can use, let me know..

Jim
(I'm not a fast turner and I'm not a slow turner - I'm a half-fast turner)

 

[atvrules1]

Nice find. Free wood is always acceptable.

 

[rtjw]

Man I got to find a sawmill near me.

 

[Ron in Drums PA]

One man's trash is another man's treasure. Great find!

 

[jrc]

I get a load like this twice a month.

 

[ryannmphs]

wow, those are nice. Hope you get some nice pens out of that wood.

Ryan

 

[Ligget]

That is one great haul, it will keep you going for a while, good work Jim ![]

 

[melogic]

Beautiful wood Jim! Ain't it amazing what some people consider throw away?

 

[jwoodwright]

Nice wood. Most shops throw away a lot of useable wood. The problem is storage. Cheaper to buy what they need instead of storing. Allows more production area, instead of storage racks...[]

 

[MDWine]

Free wood is great!

My wife brought home a Dogwood trunk yesterday! Nice! I waxed it up and will let it cure for as long as I can stand it. It's stacked next to my Plum! [][]

 

[jdavis]

Don't you like the word FREE. Nice looking wood.

 

[jrc]

For almost 3 years the only wood I had to pay for was some birds eye maple.