Don't forget your local art teachers!
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Originally Posted by
Leigh Betsch
In my old shop I used file 13. All my shorts went into file 13. If I hadn't taken them back out in 30 days they got burned. File 13 is a 30 gallon trash can.
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Those pieces I can't use I put into big plastic tubs. I occasionally offer them to the art teachers at local schools. I offer to cut them into other sizes if they want.
They love them - it gives students a new medium to work in - glue, cut thin pieces, paint, color with markers. One of the most popular was extra 5-6" wide strips of smooth radiata pine plywood I cut into squares and rectangles and smoothed the corners. Lots of little kids used these to draw pictures with markers. They get paper but hardly ever get wood!!
I've also take styrofoam which gets cut up, glued together, colored or spray painted. One year I took 10,000 small cardboard microfiche boxes. The high school art classes used these for years. I'M still using some in my shop!
If I have exotics too thin for woodturning I sometimes find a knifemaker and make his day.
JKJ