A chronicle of ideas and projects from an expert thinker in repurposing obsolete technology and discarded materials.
Scrapwood Shelving for Knick-Knacks and Tchotchkes
My wife, Melody and I have been hard at work all this week in preparation for the Cold Spring River Festival. Melody designs and sews some awesome and hilarious apparel, and I'll be selling all different sorts of things made from recycled and repurposed materials.
It doesn't take me a lot of time to accumulate all sorts of scrap lumber from different projects, and I can't bear to see it go to waste, so I designed and built these shelf units that are perfect for keeping your odds and ends and action figures and bric-a-brac that you don't know what to do with.
I tried to make everything look a bit less hacked together by filling in the gaps (with homemade wood filler made from screened sawdust and wood glue) with a putty knife, shaping it with the jigsaw, and sanding everything down.
I've got some other tricks up my sleeve for our table at the festival, but I really do hope a couple of these pieces sell.
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