Swiss Inspired Scrap Wood Art
Time waster. That’s what I call those things that I mess around with because I’m avoiding something else like: other projects, calling my insurance company, or organizing iphoto.
Put simply, I just have to remove myself from my current direction, and waste time.
Most of the time that means going out to my shop to start cutting wood scraps into smaller wood scraps for no reason.
I’m telling you this because this art piece started as a time waster and I feel that I should disclose that. I had no idea what I was doing, or what I was going to do with these scraps. I was aimless, and without a plan.
Put simply, I just have to remove myself from my current direction, and waste time.
Most of the time that means going out to my shop to start cutting wood scraps into smaller wood scraps for no reason.
I’m telling you this because this art piece started as a time waster and I feel that I should disclose that. I had no idea what I was doing, or what I was going to do with these scraps. I was aimless, and without a plan.
Basically, I think these pieces were some kind of chunky moulding or something… I’m not sure. (Salvaged from a local wood shop “throw out” pile.) I was interested in the shape the cross section would make.
**Note: I don’t expect this type of scrap to be at everyone’s fingertips, I’m just hoping my experience with odd shaped scraps will help someone out there who might have odd shaped scraps as well.
And, in case anyone wondered about measurements of these two pieces of scrap…
Keeping along with the time wasting, I did this a lot of times:
…and played around like this:
(I ended cutting up that second strip you see above, so basically, I cut up all of the two strips that I started with.) (Let me know if that didn’t make sense. I feel like I’m making this more complicated than it is…) (and I’m using too many parentheses. Sorry.)
Next, I found a 1/8 in sheet of plywood that would work to mount the pieces on.
At the end of the day, it was all glued and dried. The next step was making a box frame for it using my Kreg Jig.
Once I completed the frame, I hesitated painting it. I really liked seeing the end grain and didn’t want to covered it so…. I covered it. With paint. (There is no going back once you paint end grain.)
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So clever! I agree about the natural wood color, but your color project looks nice too!
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I can completely understand/relate to "time wasting"! I waste time reading all of these Hometalker posts! LOL😲😒! I get really great ideas but have little time to execute - cause I wasted time reading...lol! Beautiful job - turned out not to be a waste of time - you have something unique & lovely to show for it!!! Thanks!
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