Scrap leftover from stock build ?

[Steeltrap]

Does any member here make a wooden mallet head with the scrap leftover from the maple stock?

[Gaeckle]

Good idea.....I use my scraps for ball boards, file handles, blocks to hold small parts for engraving, cushioning from clamps so the clamps do damage or mar other surfaces, tapping blocks for inlay work....

[Mike Brooks]

Mine goes in the wood stove

[Tenmile]

Waste not, want not. I’ve always saved fair pieces of material and made sundry items. It can get out of hand though.
Lynn

[smylee grouch]

I have made several from scraps. The first was turned all in one piece, head & handle. Worked well for about 5 years then the handle broke off, I assume from all the shock over the years.

[Steeltrap]

I don’t have a wood stove. But I do have a gas fireplace that turns on with a flick of a switch.

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

I usually save my scraps in a big cardboard box, and use what I need for whatever project comes along.  But when rendezvous time comes around, what hasn't been picked over by my friends goes into the stove in my tent.  Burns hot!

[Gaeckle]

Waiting for someone to glue up a bunch and make a gun stock out of it

[Daryl]

That's called yer modern-type laminate stock.

[Clark Badgett]

Use the chunks for smoking.

[bluenoser]

Use the chunks for smoking.

Roll yer owns or in the pipe

[recurve]

I make knapping pads and ball boards from scraps

[Eric Krewson]

A few years ago, I asked for fancy cutoffs to make bow tillering tools to donate to a St Jude auction. The generous people here sent me 45# of cutoffs, I paid shipping.

To date with these cutoffs I have raised $3500 for St Jude on this same auction which is held yearly and I still have a lifetime supply of cutoffs left.

Here is one of the fanciest tools I made from this wood, amazing figure. The pencil marks the high spots in the limb where wood needs to be removed to get the limbs bending properly.

[Gaeckle]

That's called yer modern-type laminate stock.

Isn't that the process of  two sheep making lambs?

[bluenoser]

Eric,
Could you explain how the tool works?  Is the lower surface slightly concave?

[Steeltrap]

That's called yer modern-type laminate stock.

Isn't that the process of  two sheep making lambs?

Ewewwwwwwwwwwwwww.....

[Clark Badgett]

Use the chunks for smoking.

Roll yer owns or in the pipe

Big ole slabs of ribs 😋

[Eric Krewson]

Check you PMs Bluenoser, I got the pictures a little out of whack.

Here is a how to if anyone is interested.

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,61422.0.html

[wmrike]

My wife was unimpressed with the bullet boards and powder horn plugs that I made from scrap, so I went another direction.  It has taken more than a couple stocks, but I have assembled several of these handy tables.  And, I no longer get flak about the cost of good gunstock wood.

[Curtis]

You could make one of these....  All the wood parts are stock scraps.




Curtis

[flatsguide]

My that is fancy Curtis…where did you source the blade?
Cheers Richard

[Curtis]

Richard, I believe it was a Gramercy like one of these: https://toolsforworkingwood.com/store/item/GT-BOW12.XX

Let me see if I have a note in my records of where it came from and I will post it if it is different.


Curtis

[flatsguide]

Thanks Curtis, that is an interesting site.
Cheers Richard