wood scraps: what are some things you all do with them?

[Mike Mecredy]

Hi everyone.  It's been a good while since I posted anything on here, but I figured I do it today.  Anyhow,  As some of you know, I gave up the professional bowyering gig last spring.  Well, I have many small peices of wood, around 10 years of it it, here and there, of all specicies, exotic and domestic, natural and manufactured.  I find  them useful for a few projects and I thought I'd share a few with you guys.  Forgive me that these aren't bows, but tis the season right? [attachment=1][attachment=2]

[Mad Max]

9:25 a good time to do it
Nice clock

[Mike Mecredy]

10:35 actually, it hangs purple corner pointing up. 

[wood carver 2]

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Since I bought a small wood lathe, I have been using up my stash of scraps.
These are a few of my game calls.
Dave.

[kennym]

I give them to knife guys and other crafters, and sometimes get some cool stuff back made from them...

[Kirkll]

https://goo.gl/photos/JVMpk4Y1PAkU3eXS9

https://photos.app.goo.gl/kwuMZfFhFRbQEMnT9

[wood carver 2]

Wow Kirk, I'll bet that table took a good few hours to build. Very nice!
Dave.

[Mike Mecredy]

dang Kirk, that's hard core.

[Kirkll]

A couple years ago i thought id try my hand at a roll top Toy box for my grandson that i built from some scap red oak flooring.... This was a fun project too.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/wHECJnQetBL14Y8K9
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Now you want to talk hard core?  ....... Our old farm house was built in 1883 and the original foundation was pretty crude. They put a real foundation under the main house in the 50's some time, but didn't do a very good job of leveling the floor. This 18 X 22' family room was almost 2" out from side to side, and 3" out of level end to end.... I had to use a laser and cut custom tapered firing strips to level it out before putting the new plywood down. Then i put solid hickory flooring in. Did the whole thing solo and it took me a week. This was done in 2019 at age 64.... Wish i had done it in my 30's... LOL   This was hard core.   Check out that scribed piece of plywood at the stone hearth.... That was wild!

https://photos.app.goo.gl/JiTvPpXmQXSxeeheA

[KenH]

These Anglo-Saxon era lyres found in archaeological dig sites in Germany, dating back to the time of Charlemagne.

[Longcruise]

Knife scales

[bdsmith1]

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[Kirkll]

Whoa!  A luthier in the house!   cool....

[KenH]

KirkII -- I was a luthier before being a bowyer  -- folk fiddles and banjos, citarra, lyres, mountain dulcimers, fretted zithers, psalteries of several kinds, ukuleles, and a dreadnaught guitar once.  Bows are what I make from my scraps.... not the other way around. 

[bdsmith1]

Guitars for me into wood working, bows made me stay.

[onetone]

Got a couple of guitars and I refer to my bows as my other stringed instruments. 
Scraps make dandy door stops, pulls and handles for cabinets, and thumb rings.

[Kirkll]

I have quite a bit of research material on building guitars, but never took the plunge myself. I looked into to building an acoustic 6 string  seriously a few years ago, but never found the time. i admire the craftsmanship needed to pull that off.   

[pditto613]

Kirk- those spiders you made out of limb cut offs are really cool!