Gloat or garbage, I can't decide

[Brian Brown]

A man from my church had a stroke, and is not doing it well. His kids were cleaning out a storage shed and were going to toss these out. A volunteer who was helping clean up brought them to me. There are thousands of these diamonds. There are a large variety of domestic and exotic woods. I have no idea what he was going to do with them, and because they are only 1/8" thick, I'm not sure I can do much with them. Any Ideas?

[Bill O'Conner]

looks like a seggy project to me

Bill

[Martin Braun]

You could do some pretty elaborate segmented pieces!

[Dean Thomas]

Dare I mention the f word here?

I can see some nifty mosaic type work with lots of diamonds from lovely woods.

[alex carey]

yeah, same as what the others said. Segmenting is about the only thing. That or leveling any uneven tables you might have.

[Rasmus Petersen]

Jewlery .. finger rings segments for bangels earrings and the likes...

i would jump with joy if i cahed that horde... (dooing a lot of small stuff right now)

[Brian Brown]

I like the idea of jewelry. As for segmenting, I don't know how much I can do because they are so thin. I thought of some platter stuff, but I don't know how well it would work especially on a lathe with a 10" swing. I gave up about 1/3 of the load because I don't have any place to put it. They were species like cottonwood, oak and maple. There were many bottles of maple, and I only kept two. One plain grain, and one Birdseye. I kept most of the exotics, most of which I had never seen or heard of before. I'll have to try a few things. Could get interesting!

[Paul Douglass]

I would think they would make some neat trim on serving trays, small tables, all kinds of f--twork. Those are one of those things I would grab onto and than they would sit on my shelf until my kids were cleaning out my stuff after I've gone to the big workshop in the sky!

[Steve Mawson]

First thing that came to mind was a seggy project. Use the thin pieces to contrast between thicker woods.

[John Staerk]

Glue 'em into cubes for turning bottle stoppers?

[Brian Effinger]

The first thought that came to mind is "inlay". Probably for flat work.

[Greg Narozniak]

Splines in Picture frames?

[Richard Madison]

Brian,
Potential for a segmented sculptural piece with only the I.D. turned, all pointy on the O.D., possible closed segs in the smaller dia. areas and open segs in larger dia. areas. Might have to build it one seg at a time like we used to do open seg pieces. Might want to recover the pieces you gave away, for practice. I can hardly wait to see it.

[Jarrod McGehee]

Like Brian said and Dewey Torres if he reads this post, INLAY. I'm sure you could come up with some cool designs to put as trim on a table top or something. I know it's not turning work but still

[Andrew Derhammer]

glue some together on a waste block and turn a circle to inlay into the bottom of a bowl or platter.