John — I have often thought about these sorts of laminations as I’m a scrap hoarder myself — however have been warned about being mindful of the differences in the moisture content of different species and how each reacts to seasonal movement. Is this something you have encountered or know how Penta deals with it?


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Yes, nice box and great use of wood!

David, if you want some inspiration about ways to use small pieces of wood take a look at some examples by my good friend Frank Penta. Frank glues up different woods to make blanks for woodturning but they could easily be used for boxes, cutting boards, and more.

He's made many hundreds of these with different colors of wood and veneer. I have one of his 16"x16"x2" glue ups in my shop waiting for me to do something useful with it. All wood is natural color except for some veneer

A variety of laminations:
(Make sure "Display Num" is set to "ALL" at the bottom of the page to see the latest entries)
http://www.frankpenta.com/index.php/...minations-2015

A few more, some plates:
http://www.frankpenta.com/index.php/...ht-inch-plates

Frank also has a document that may be useful for general woodworking as well as turning:
http://www.frankpenta.com/index.php/...ood.pdf/detail

BTW, instead of using "scraps" Frank buys new lumber from a wholesalers and importers and cuts boards up into little pieces for glueups. I've seen his huge stash of exotic planks waiting for slicing, imagine 16 foot long 2" stock of purpleheart, bubinga, wenge, etc. He has a bunch of big drawers fuil of bundles of strips of wood he has sliced, drum sanded, sorted and arranged into stacks of patterns so he can grab bundles when he feels like gluing something up!

He often uses contrasting veneers as separators and accents in his creations.
One "busy" example from Frank's gallery that includes black veneer:
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JKJ