Cleaning up the scraps and offcuts

[Shawn Pixley]

My scrap / offcut pile had gotten a bit unwieldy. So I made a couple of boxes to use up as much as I could before I start a larger project. My scraps were cherry, walnut and curly maple; too nice to burn. My only rule was it had to be totally built from scrap, no new boards.

I took a class on casting last fall. I made this pull from silver and bronze. The silver was patinaed by liver of suphur.

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I ended up dropping the lid while finishing, hence the nick. This is obviously cherry and curly maple. Finish is waterlox.

The next piece is mostly Neader (I am a blended or hybrid woodworker).

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Sorry these are quick iPhone pictures this is walnut and Curly maple with some ebony accents. There are trays for the inside as well.

[Hans Braul]

Love em Shawn - especially the second one. The handle is particularly fun.

[Jim Becker]

Mighty fine looking "scraps", Shawn!

[Mark Ball]

really like the 2nd one, if it was me I might have punched out the whole knot, like the way the grain swirls around the hole

[Paul Saffold]

Nice Shawn, good use of scraps.
I like the cast fish. What process do you use? Lost wax?
Paul

[Walt Caza]

I took a class on casting last fall. I made this pull from silver and bronze. The silver was patinaed by liver of suphur.

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Looking Good Shawn,
You pulled those beauties 'out of the fire' so to speak!
For me too, the second oozes charm.

wait... what???
you cast those handles? that is the coolest thing I've heard all day!
There are just so many ways to spend our creative energy...
now I am tempted to look into adding casting my own hardware to my short list of 7362 desired hobbies.

thanks for sharing a peek with the Creek
gorgeous work,
w

ps
I take it back, upon closer inspection, I like both
:P

[Tony Streible]

Nice looking boxes!

[Shawn Pixley]

Nice Shawn, good use of scraps.
I like the cast fish. What process do you use? Lost wax?
Paul

Thank you Paul. Yes, the two components are from lost wax. They were done in a jewelry scale centrifugal casting set-up.

The base was carved wax and cast in bronze. The fish was molding wax and cast in silver. I then drilled a hole in the bronze and into the botttom of the fish, these were then silver soldered together. The handle was then patinaed in liver of sulpher and coated in lacquer.