Leftover Hardwood

[JA5544]

I've got several bundles of hardwood that is left from our house we just built sitting on a pallet in the middle of my detached man cave. I can't really think of a good way to store/use it, and I hate to get rid of it. It is unfinished #2 red oak. You guys got any good ideas?

 

[PCustoms]

Save some for any future repairs. Keep it dry and preferably in a temperature/humidity constant area.

Beyond that:

Acent wall
Bar top
Bench top
Firewood

 

[PAToyota]

What dimensions? Much different projects for 5/4 planks 10' or longer than 1x1s of random lengths...

 

[Kevin54]

Benchtop.

 

[JA5544]

What dimensions? Much different projects for 5/4 planks 10' or longer than 1x1s of random lengths...

Random lengths. Longest being maybe 3'.

 

[kbs2244]

At 3 foot max you are talking patching and craft projects
Do a youtube search on hardwood crafts

 

[gahrajmahal]

Works great for furniture and book shelves. I use it for custom thresholds between tile and carpet, or wood and carpet. Set your table saw at 15deg and run it through on it's edge. Gives you that taper you need between surfaces. Also makes nice picture frames. Combine with some nice router bits, some paint details. The uses are endless.

 

[KEH]

Relatives built a log house, cut oak from their place , had it kiln dried and T & G flooring made. I took the leftovers and made them a blanket chest, making raised panels for it. The oak looked good in a piece of furniture.

KEH

 

[fourjeepin]

I am planning to build a coffee table from mine.

 

[Tom Sestito]

Red Oak = firewood.

And I say that only because here in my hometown everything is red oak!!!

 

[isb cornbinder]

Here are a bunch of ideas.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=mach...z7jZAhUVwGMKHT5qCDMQ_AUICygC&biw=1920&bih=963

 

[Fyrme]

It makes a great bench top. I've abused this one for 5 years now.

 

[matt_i]

That stuff is brilliant for any kind of cribbing, set heavy machines on it, use for a jack pad under the car. Can glue them into "bricks" by stacking it at 90 deg and gluing with construction adhesive for thicker blocks.

I like the benchtop idea.

 

[Milton Shaw]

I made some furniture from some oak flooring years ago. One caution is that the tongue and grove does not meet on the bottom. If you try to glue into a panel it will be bowed. The tongue and grove needs to be re-cut on router table to make the grove match right. This is this way on the flooring so that the top is tight and not being kept from closing by the bottom. On a panel you want both to be tight as you clamp the panel.

 

[77Birdman]

#2 red oak = firewood! Its cheap, abundant and nasty to build with.

 

[CJ7VFR]

It makes a great bench top. I've abused this one for 5 years now.

Excellent bench top! Just beautiful!

I bet working on that bench makes any project seem more pleasurable!

Jim

 

[engineer2]

Since it's a new house, you might need some coat hooks, key hooks, picture frames, a front hall storage bench for shoes. I've made coat hooks with mounting holes 16" OC and hidden behind two of the hooks.

 

[ez-duzit]

Random lengths. Longest being maybe 3'.

That is not "leftover" material--it is offcuts/scrap. You could advertise it on c/l.

 

[NUTTSGT]

If you do any kind of wood working, you could save it to make all sorts of puzzle games.

 

[ChaseDE]

That is not "leftover" material--it is offcuts/scrap. You could advertise it on c/l.

Probably not, most t&g hardwood comes in boxes with mixed sizes from 12" to about 36+" long. I just did a whole room in my house with real 3/4" hardwood, like 12 boxes and that is how it came.

 

[rzims]

I'll second the benchtop idea....did this with leftovers from my daughter's condo

 

[Fyrme]

Excellent bench top! Just beautiful!

I bet working on that bench makes any project seem more pleasurable!

Jim

Thanks. Yes it does, and it helps motivate me to keep it cleaned off, which is a challenge for me.

To be honest, it works good for any table/benchtop. This is the same white oak as the workbench.