ctboy
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i have acquired many used bowling pins. does anyone know what i can make with them, besides lamps?
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penhead
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That has got to be some hard wood. Have you tried cutting it into pen blanks? Just curious what the wood wood look like 
freedomhouse
Member
Usually, once you get the plastic cover removed you will find a series of 'glue up's" you can cut to size and have at it.... Some interesting filler woods. Let us know what TURNS up!
WriteRev
Member
I've heard that they are good stock for turning mallets, but I've not turned one myself.
Steve
Steve
Trapshooter
Member
Get a 45 and shoot them....... Sorry first thing that popped into my head.
Really, if you can't find a good use for them many local gun clubs would be interested in them for pin shoots.
Really, if you can't find a good use for them many local gun clubs would be interested in them for pin shoots.
Rifleman1776
Member
Is pin shooting still popular? I thought that it had died out.
BTW, I believe most older bowling pins are made of hard maple. More suited for turning into mallets than pens.
workinforwood
Member
If it was me, I'd turn myself a bowling ball, teach my kid how to set the pins up and I'd bowl in my back yard. Build a wooden frame, or just dress the kid up in football gear and a catcher pad with catchers mit to stand behind the pins.
TBone
Member
My wife painted some to look like Santa Claus for Christmas, painted one to look like a Jack-O-Lantern and one to look like a witch. She had several people that wanted them.
ctboy
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thanks to all for the ideas. ye, it is made of laminated maple. orry my computer has been down for a few days. i think ill try the shooting idea first.
Trapshooter
Member
Not so much here, Nw Ohio. There are small gun clubs that do this once in a blue moon. Last one I heard of was at an Izak Walton near Old Fort Ohio. Sporting clays gaining ground here.
alxe24
Member
cut in pieces and meke jam chucks for turning boxes so you don't use nice wood for it