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Hit 1,000 board feet of oak yesterday without realizing it
Was cleaning out the shop and stacking leftover white oak from the last 6 months and counted it up. 1,037 board feet just sitting there from miscuts and small jobs. Has anyone else lost track of their scrap pile like that?
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victor_jones9918d ago
Bet those scraps add up faster than you think. Oak prices being what they are, that's a nice chunk of change sitting there. Probably worth sorting through it before you trip over a gold mine.
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williamm8217d ago
lol "trip over a gold mine" - knowing my luck I'd probably trip over a pile of scrap and land face first on a rusty nail. But yeah you're not wrong, I've been meaning to sort through it for weeks now. My garage looks like a hoarder's paradise with all this oak just sitting there. Kinda feels like I'm storing a retirement fund in there though, so maybe I should actually do something about it before my wife decides to "declutter" my stash for me.
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king.aaron17d ago
Man I feel your pain on the wife wanting to declutter. My garage is basically my second home and I had the same talk about six months ago. What worked for me was just making a small project out of it, pick one piece of oak and turn it into something simple like a cutting board or a shelf. That way you clear a little space and she sees you're actually using the stuff, not just hoarding it. Have you ever done any woodworking before or would this be a first time kind of thing?
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