Scrap wood projects

[martinm13]

Hey,

Got a bit sidetracked cleaning up tonight and made a few things. I always have so much **** laying around so I thought a small materials rack would come in handy.


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I had previously built a steel frame to hold my tool box off the ground and had planned to put a garbage can beside it. That plan kind of fell through and I decided to use it for storage of scraps and the vaccuum hose. I had some more wood after making the wall rack and I made a door for the opening.

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-Martin

 

[Amitygravel]

Good ideas !
Really like the contrast of the wood door next to the stainless.
Its nice using up stuff that would otherwise cost money
to have to throw it away.

 

[BPJOOP93]

all i see are blue lines????

 

[jamesemery728]

all i see are blue lines????

me too

 

[PECVD2]

Double clicking on the blue lines worked for me

 

[BPJOOP93]

what he said^^^^^^^

 

[jasonreck71]

Way to be green man...I had some scrap wood and all i saw was kindling...Good tips thanks

 

[5lima30]

Looks great! I build a lot of stuff from rough sawn 1"x12" white pine and end up having lots of scraps. What doesn't get used for kindling makes shelves, etc.

 

[CraigP]

I built most of my workbench out of scrap wood that had been in my dads garage for years and a couple new 2x4's from the local big box store. For the top I cut down an old desk top left in my house by the previous owners.

Also just put together a rack for some pipe clamps out of cedar left over from our a deck which was finished this past summer. Couple flower boxes were also built from the same cedar leftovers.

Built a little storage box for glues and canisters out of left over pallet materials, which also helped me practice precise cuts.

All of which I haven't posted yet, or taken pictures of for you guys. I'm a bad poster...

 

[bullfrog123]

Love using scrap wood!!!!!
Built this rattle can rack out of 3/4" scrap plywood leftovers from a box build that holds my wall tent and camp stove.

 

[chickenfarmer]

Great ideas! I made a lean two out of scrap wood for my scrap wild last year, I'll see if I can find some pics

 

[shannonw]

Here's mine and what the scraps were from! sand paper storage was driving me nuts for years.

nothing original borrowed it from here or a wood working site. Made it quick like from left overs of building my sons playtable..still needs some labels.

 

[shannonw]

And a crazy scrap one..

the little shelf riser in back on top of the counter top in the laundry room was made out of left over shelves i had rigged up in the garage years ago which at one time i had used for a make shift desk. The trim from something else. The ikea counter top left overs from THIS project then became the top to my toolbox.

The reason for the work in the laundry room was to split it in half to use for a closet in the garage holding h20 heater, watersoftener and some shelves. The door to that space was then made from left over 2 bys from doing my garage soffits.

The scraps from the door slatwall was THEN used to put behind the toolbox/cabinet area...and the lights i put under the cabinet had been left overs from doing a kitchen years ago lol

btw don't bum the ikea counter top in laundry room idea, dumb idea, i didn't think of the heat the dryer would put out. I eventually had to go back and put a piece of foam under it to keep it from warping and i know you're asking...

what about the left over foam board ?

Haven't decided what to do with it yet =P

 

[wintermute]

Nice work! I like that material rack. The door is a bit jarring visually with the surrounding cabinets, but it's still a really nice piece.

My workbench was all scrap I had laying around with a couple of 2x4s from Building Salvage. My current project is also all scrap materials so far–it will eventually get some new material for finishing though.

 

[martinm13]

And a crazy scrap one..

the little shelf riser in back on top of the counter top in the laundry room was made out of left over shelves i had rigged up in the garage years ago which at one time i had used for a make shift desk. The trim from something else. The ikea counter top left overs from THIS project then became the top to my toolbox.

The reason for the work in the laundry room was to split it in half to use for a closet in the garage holding h20 heater, watersoftener and some shelves. The door to that space was then made from left over 2 bys from doing my garage soffits.

The scraps from the door slatwall was THEN used to put behind the toolbox/cabinet area...and the lights i put under the cabinet had been left overs from doing a kitchen years ago lol

btw don't bum the ikea counter top in laundry room idea, dumb idea, i didn't think of the heat the dryer would put out. I eventually had to go back and put a piece of foam under it to keep it from warping and i know you're asking...

what about the left over foam board ?

Haven't decided what to do with it yet =P

I really like the toolbox topper!

Nice work! I like that material rack. The door is a bit jarring visually with the surrounding cabinets, but it's still a really nice piece.

My workbench was all scrap I had laying around with a couple of 2x4s from Building Salvage. My current project is also all scrap materials so far–it will eventually get some new material for finishing though.

It does appear that way in the picture but my workbench area is under a loft in the garage which is built out of wood that looks similar so it all ties in

 

[shannonw]

Martinm13, sorry meant to compliment your work too! (late and i got to babbling and thinking about scrap projects)

I agree with the first response, that stain looks great with the toolbox, nice contrast. The rack came out good and pretty common scraps to have too! I may have to use that technique...the shelf i was using to store scraps i've used for other things like the laundry room as it was decent plywood

 

[BigEd]

I've got a dozen or so balusters left over from my deck build and I'm trying to come up with ideas to use them. Anyone ever used them for something else?

 

[jcm44]

My scraps are generally too small for most things and end up in the burn pile, but for this catapult, I used whatever I had that was the right size. I think there is oak, maple, pine, cherry, and poplar in there.

I ended up and switched out the tension pins for steel rods. They don't collapse like the poplar dowels and you can tension the catapult much more.