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I allow myself one bin of scrap pieces and cut-offs. They get used for end blocks, head stock overlays, end grafts, other decorations or other small projects. When it gets too full I sort out by wood type and size and dump the rest....usually wondering why I kept that tiny triangle of wood or that sliver of neck stock
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Filippo Morelli wrote:
I have a lot of scraps. I keep spruce scraps in long and cross grain, since they are useful for repair and bracing. I keep a banker box for miscellaneous hardwoods. I frequently use hardwoods to make jigs ... fancy eh, but if you think about it the amount of excess hardwood scraps in guitar making can keep you in jigs for a lifetime. Smaller hardwood pieces are kept separately for everything from rosettes to you name it. Finally I have a place to keep long pieces of scrap, typically in the 2' length - good for laminate necks.

Each guitar I make, I keep scraps of all the pieces. They go in a ziplock and get filed. If the guitar ever needs repair, it's nice to have original wood.

Well ... with the dust from the dust collector ... that goes into the compost piles.

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I've heard you should be very careful with what you do with black walnut sawdust. There's a compound in it, Juglone, which will kill certain plants.
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If I'm not mistaken, cedar also has natural herbicidal properties. Though I haven't actually bothered to look that up to confirm (I just remember that form somewhere).

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That's alright, I kill all the plants I touch anyway! gaah

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I used my sawdust to fill up a big hole in my yard. Even threw some scarps in there, and a few end cuts off of 2X4's. Not sure where the hole came from, I suspect armadillos. Took a while, but eventually it worked!

And BTW, I learned the termites only ate through the first couple of inches, and seemed to leave the rest alone. Go figure.

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First fire of the season last night. Started with scraps from some hog that wouldn't bend without fracturing.

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I gave of box full of small Texas native chunks to a fellow who carves fishing lures.

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I don't know what scraps are. I make big pieces of wood into smaller pieces of wood, but I keep everything to use later for rosettes, toothpicks, etc. My custom, hardwood toothpick business is really taking off. Unfortunately, the time involved in whittling them from small pieces of wood is not exactly cost effective. I am losing about $20 per toothpick. But I think I can make it up in volume if I keep plugging away.

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I don't know what scraps are. I make big pieces of wood into smaller pieces of wood, but I keep everything to use later for rosettes, toothpicks, etc. My custom, hardwood toothpick business is really taking off. Unfortunately, the time involved in whittling them from small pieces of wood is not exactly cost effective. I am losing about $20 per toothpick. But I think I can make it up in volume if I keep plugging away.

You are such a card, Tony. You know which one.

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Tony, what are you doing with the whittlings from your hardwood toothpick process? I'm really into tchotchkes and miniatures. I would love to carve some miniature hardwood toothpicks from your scraps!

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is not exactly cost effective. I am losing about $20 per toothpick. But I think I can make it up in volume if I keep plugging away.


...this surprises me. i'd think there's be plenty of well heeled folks in manhattan that are in need of old growth, hand selected, finely crafted, unsustainably farmed bubinga toothpicks. i know there are in chicago.
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I'm pretty sure that black walnut shavings and sawdust are deadly to horses. Lance would probably know.

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is not exactly cost effective. I am losing about $20 per toothpick. But I think I can make it up in volume if I keep plugging away.


...this surprises me. i'd think there's be plenty of well heeled folks in manhattan that are in need of old growth, hand selected, finely crafted, unsustainably farmed bubinga toothpicks. i know there are in chicago.


Plenty. I charge $60 per toothpick but my labor costs are killing me. I should hire cheap labor. Then my profits will skyrocket!

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Sheesh Tony, I just burnt up about $2400 worth of your toothpicks. But my toes are sure nice and warm :)

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I use the off cuts from the toothpicks to make designer splinters. For the CEO who wants to pretend they are a weekend wood worker.

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Alex Kleon wrote:
I'm pretty sure that black walnut shavings and sawdust are deadly to horses. Lance would probably know.

Alex



Humans too I think...walnut makes me break out with a rash if I don't wear gloves. I bet I would kill over if I ate it.
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I'd like to throw all my fancy wood scraps in a woodchipper, and use the result to make high end OSB. There must be a use for luxury OSB.
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Looks like someone already has the artisanal toothpick business all wrapped up.

http://www.daneson.com/collections/front-page
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Brazilian OSB! Excellent!

I knew I should have patented my idea for the high end toothpicks. The only flavor I currently offer is blood, sweat, and tears. Not very tasty.

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I have a big box full of may different species and they come in handy for truss rod covers , nuts, headstock overlays and some marquetry.
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