Turn scrap wood into a project

Throwing away scrap wood is probably one of the more wasteful ways we dispose of wood. I truly believe that even a tiny bit of the amount of timber being cut down around the world that can be preserved in the form of a woodworking project is worth the day or part of a weekend for us to spend some time on. The wood species does not matter. The humble pine that was used to make this project has earned its place in our home. So do oak, walnut and other exotic and some actually endangered species from forests in far away places.

The starter projects I talked about were done with pocket hole joinery. This one, as an example, was done with a little bit more advanced form of joinery. And, like everything else as in woodworking or other crafts, proper tools will do the trick. So, here mortise and tenon was employed but it will require tools beyond the bare minimum that I suggested in my previous topic.

Here clamps and glue were used to put it all together.

But I will go more into that in later postings. Just wanted to show a different method. Again, as you get comfortable doing projects using pocket hole joinery, and you are willing to do more, then mortise and tenon is a good one to learn. What started out as scrap wood has found its place in our home.