Fri, Nov 11, 2005, 6:31am (EST-3) [email protected] (stryped) only
drops one boot:
I am wanting to get into woodworking and maybe make some cabinets for my
garage. My dad works for a wood flooring company and has scrap wood
strips about 3/4 inch think and 3 1/2 in wide.
Can I use this for my purpses? What else?
What else? Maybe how long? You'd look pretty stoopid with 6" tall
cabinets.
JOAT
If it ain't broke, don't lend it.
- Red Green
On 11 Nov 2005 06:31:27 -0800, "stryped" <[email protected]> wrote:
>I am wanting to get into woodworking and maybe make some cabinets for
>my garage. My dad works for a wood flooring company and has scrap wood
>strips about 3/4 inch think and 3 1/2 in wide.
Oak, maple or something similar ? Yes, they'd be very useful.
However they're narrow. They'll be good used crossways for shelves, but
I'd suggest buying some wider timber for making the uprights in one
piece. You'll find it easier.
If they're machined on the edges (most of this flooring is) then they'll
join easily. Otherwise you'll want to look up the noble art of "edge
jointing". You'll also be needing some glue and lots of clamps.
As long as they're solid and not laminate, they should be
good. Some of the newer flooring is beveled at the edges
and you might have to plain it down a bit to eliminate it.
stryped wrote:
> I am wanting to get into woodworking and maybe make some cabinets for
> my garage. My dad works for a wood flooring company and has scrap wood
> strips about 3/4 inch think and 3 1/2 in wide.
>
> Can I use this for my purpses? What else?
>
On 11 Nov 2005 06:31:27 -0800, "stryped" <[email protected]> wrote:
>I am wanting to get into woodworking and maybe make some cabinets for
>my garage. My dad works for a wood flooring company and has scrap wood
>strips about 3/4 inch think and 3 1/2 in wide.
>
>Can I use this for my purpses? What else?
Hardwood? A friend was looking for a friend of his and caught up to
him taking a truckload to the dump. It was the ends from hardwood
flooring for semi trucks being manufactured. His friend waited until
he went home for his large trailer, and the wood never made it to the
dump. He now has a room divider, a kitchen counter top and a large
bar.
I'm too old now, but if I started again and was born with a business
mind, I'd do research into just what does get thrown out from large
businesses and go into the recycling business big-time; not glass and
metal, but wood and plastic.