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Practice any art, however well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to find out what's inside you.
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Even if you are not a woodworker but you like some or all of the projects, have your local crafts person make them for you from the ideas and photos you see here. For a particular project just click the specific title on the Blog Archive list (right side column below).

For anyone willing to learn or begin to do woodworking for the first time, please read first from the Blog Archive, "How and Where to Begin a Woodworking Hobby.

And it is not for men only. Read my note on "Women in Woodworking" from Blog Archive, April 2010.


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Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Pen/Pencil Holder from Scrap Wood



Like many woodworkers I know, I find it difficult to throw away scrap wood, specially if they're exotic hardwood. Typically they're small pieces; so one should make small projects out of them. Here, the species is marble wood.

I cut thin slices so I can clad more of them over a common hardwood - oak in this case. Also, oak is a lot easier to drill into than marble wood.




Drilling into end grain (below) of oak is easier than had it been into marble wood.



Each block is a pencil holder. Purely for aesthetic reasons I cut them to different lengths and glued them to a configuration that, while solely subjective, would be just as pleasing (or not boring, anyway).









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