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Thread: Offcut, Sawdust ideas?
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1st February 2014, 09:15 PM #1Senior Member
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Offcut, Sawdust ideas?
Hi Guys,
Wondering if anyone has any ideas/uses for their offcuts and sawdust?
Sawdust is easy enough to use on the garden or bag and sell for a few bucks - but what do you do?
The 'unusable' sized offcuts (anything under 300mm long in my case) are piling up with no profitable or practical use I'm aware of.
Varying timber, in varying widths and thicknesses. What does everyone else do?
Thanks in advance,
Cam.
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1st February 2014, 10:49 PM #2Taking a break
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Sell it as pen blanks or firewood.
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1st February 2014, 10:50 PM #3
See if a nearby school can use them. Damien.
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1st February 2014, 10:53 PM #4
With a wood lathe its amasing just how little bits you can use. Yes but, there a limit. We have a wood fire for winter warmth. So the firewood stack get shorts that are a bit splitty as well as bits that can't be used anywhere else and there is the pieces that may be 3 minutes to completion on the lathe ......damn......more firewood. Through summer though I try not to stack too much because I don't want to create a haven for white ants (termites), so most of them end up as landfill. I am choosy too with the saw dust. Because I use a lot of Pyneboard and MDF I will take a 44 gallon drum of this stuff to the green waste area of the tip. Because it is so fine any thickness over about 25mm starves the garden of water as it just rolls off the saw dust. Chainsaw chaff, from milling and planer chaff, no problem as it goes well on the garden
Just do it!
Kind regards Rod
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2nd February 2014, 08:27 AM #5
Cam
While small pieces like that have limmited commercial value to the professional they are gold to the hobby woodworker who dabbles in turning and small items like boxes etc. You could always put a mixed box of off cuts up in he market place and see if there is any interest.
cheers
WHI don't suffer from stress, but I have been told I'm a carrier
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2nd February 2014, 03:13 PM #6
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2nd February 2014, 04:39 PM #7
You could always send those small offcuts to me.
I'm with WH - separate the pieces that aren't too small, package & sell in the Marketplace.
Good for segmented turning, pen blanks, jewellery and, if thick enough, tealight candle holders etc.... Steve
-- Monkey see, monkey do --
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2nd February 2014, 04:57 PM #8
Mixed bag of kids blocks? I know the local toy shop (which is close to a styner school which only like natural toys) has bags of mixed blocks that are not necessarily all square and even. Even quite enjoys natural edges, wacky shapes and sticks. Long bits that can do bridges and roofs. Sanding might be necessary. But not finishing perhaps.
anne-maria.
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2nd February 2014, 06:27 PM #9Senior Member
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Brilliant. Thanks everyone. I think I'll most likely package them all up at the end of each month or 2 and sell them on here for a bargain - win, win.
Cheers.