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Kitchen Cabinets from old barn scrapts
2 commentsThis is our new kitchen. All the panels for the outside of the cabinets and the doors were made from an old barn from 1860 approx that had to be torn down on the property. Instead of just...
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Oink, Ollie, Ubercow and the Bird
1 commentI am a disabled Sheet Metal Worker that just started to get into woodworking. When on a fixed income I had to get creative about how I got my "wood fix!" I became a member of Freecycle. Freecycle is...
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Multi-Wood Mirror
My scrap bin pile was getting full after building the bedroom suite. So we combined these with a few other types of wood that I had smaller pieces of to make this mirror frame. There were five...
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Bristle#1
2 commentsBristle #1 -I had these small scraps of African Wenge and needed a small project. The chair ended up winning two awards at a local art show and inspired a seven chair series.
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Ring box with magnetic hinge
1 commentScrap pieces of black walnut and birdseye maple. Size is ~ 2 inches square. Magnetic hinge is neat little idea I came up with and utilize in many projects.
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Coffee Table
4 commentsI made three coffee tables as Christmas gifts last year I sanded all the strips of timber glued them into panels when dry planed and sanded flush placed the three panels on top of each other held...
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floating tops
2 commentsjust a few scraps of wood + some small magnets = coooool aleast thats what the kids said. they like to see how long they can make them spin.
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Tortilla Press
1 commentMy wife wanted a present for our daughter and family, they like to cook, so I decided to make this Tortilla press using only scraps. Woods are poplar, cherry,walnut and purpleheart.the finish is a...
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Scrap wood turned back into mosaic tree.....
1 commentThis project was made entirely of recycled flooring and scrap material from my wood shop. There are roughly 2000 pieces of recycled wood in this project consisting of 13 species of...
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Knife Display Case
3 commentsMy younger brother's wife "commissioned" me to make this knife display case for him as a Christmas gift. The case (12" wide by 16" high) is made from walnut scraps from a large project I made...
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Puzzle Box
1 commentI watched Roy Underhill make one of these boxes on his "The Woodrights Shop" PBS series. They orginated in Europe and were used by woodworkers to keep their tallow for "waxing" their...
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Desk name plate
Marguetry scraps; Birdseye maple for background, walnut and cherry inlay. Walnut frame.
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scrappy sea fish
3 commentsWhat's a California carpenter to do when the chips are down, and surf is up? When he's got too much time on his hands, and a garage full of wood scraps? What else - build a wooden...
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Scraptacular Gallery Challenge: Official Rules
2 commentsShare photos of your most beautiful scrap wood projects and you might walk away with one of three FWW Archive DVD-ROMs!
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Congratulations to our winners!
Congratulations to our three winners! Argyllshire for Eye Candy, larrysak3 for Dulcimer; and Triumph1 for "Home is where the hearth is".
Three prize packages were awarded.
First Prize
Fine WoodworkingMagazine Archive DVD-ROM
Second Prize
(1) copy of The Complete Illustrated Guide to Furniture and Cabinet Construction
(1) copy of The Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery
Third Prize
(1) copy of The Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery
Contest ended March 11, 2010
Winners were selected by the community and announced on March 22, 2010.












