Door Stop
What can you make from rubbish found in the bin?
2016
Working in a handmade kitchen workshop means that there are lots of small scrap pieces of wood that are thrown away as they were too small to make anything for the kitchens. However this does not mean they are completely useless pieces of wood.
Some pieces were beautiful bits of oak or walnut that seemed a shame to be wasted, chopped up and used for fire wood.
Every now and then a job I was given was to go through the scrap wood bins and chop the pieces of wood into smaller bits so that they could be burnt on fires. When I did this I would find pieces that clearly would be no good for making kitchens but I thought to myself "what I could make from them?"
One day I found a nice chunk of oak that I kept to one side. Later that evening after work, I made it into a simple door stop. Sketching the design onto the wood, roughly cutting it out with a bandsaw and shaping it with a belt and spindle sander to finish. Finally drilling the eye hole on the drill press.
I love this simple project as it proves how much potential there is in pieces of material that have been disregarded and would have been wasted without a little time and creativity applied to them.
