Laminated stock

[Jim McDonald]

Had a bunch of short scraps laying around and used a whole lot of Titebond3 and nearly every screw clamp I own to make a laminated blank for birdhouses.

I cut one into the face of the blank and rotated the other one 1/4 turn and cut into the lamination. Used #5 crown tooth blade (one per birdhouse). Got some burning on one of them, but some good old 220 make quick work of that.

Just an idea to use up small scraps. Might have been better with some thinner boards, but you play the cards you're dealt.

Edited July 4, 2020 by Jim McDonald
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[Denny Knappen]

Those are stunning, Jim

[dgman]

They look great Jim, very nice work!

[Rockytime]

Those are beautiful!

[amazingkevin]

 Choice creations craftily done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the tip on using thinner stock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Oges]

Great use for that scrap wood, the bird houses look fantastic

[wombatie]

They look terrific, great way to use up scrap.

Marg

[daveww1]

very nice work

[Blaughn]

Nice!  I have so many scrap pieces, I can hardly move without stepping on them.  I will have to give this a try.

[BadBob]

I did this awhile back. It was very time consuming but I got a lot of practice using my plane.

[scrollerpete]

It takes longer to prepare the wood to get the proper size then it takes to cut the houses. Excellent choices of wood and the sky is the limit as far as choice of colour combination, and the pile of scrap wood goes down.

Edited July 5, 2020 by scrollerpete

[Dragonkort]

great birdhouses!!  now let me see if i understand this right you glue several pieces of thin wood together until you get it thick enough to make compound cuts out of? 

[Jim McDonald]

Correct. The trick in my mind is lots of glue and lots of clamping. Then trim the stack to size after giving the glue plenty of time to fully cure.

I had glue running everywhere when I started clamping. I clamped from the middle outward to make sure I didn't have voids.

[Dave Monk]

Nice use of scraps. They look great!