I took a few pics while I was building my pallet challenge entry, enough to make this sort of build thread. I worked on the build over about 6 weeks after picking up my first pallet at the local electrical wholesaler who stacks them up against his fence.
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I took the one on the left the first day, a half size pallet, as it would fit easily in my car, but it was missing one of the underside support slats and had chipboard spacer blocks. At this stage I wasn't sure what I was going to make, but I decided to make something practical and as I had a need for somewhere to store turning chisels, I decided on that as a project. I started out thinking it would be a simple chest with a lid and maybe a sliding tray, but I didn't have enough wood. I returned to the free crates pile hoping there would be another similar sized pallet, but all I could find was one slightly larger one.
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In the end this amounted to slightly more timber than one full sized pallet. There is a mix of species here, at least three. As far as I can tell it might be Northwest Ponderosa Pine, Western White Pine or Poplar and something else, maybe even a hardwood (the pinkish stuff). Although there were scabby slats in there and cuts from waney ends, some was crushed and split from nailing, but the pines seem to be old/slow growth stuff with quite fine growth rings and it otherwise felt reasonably nice.
I started out gluing up enough wood to make the box's panels. The dimensions were set by the maximum size panels I could make out of the available wood, avoiding as much of the split ends and crushed boards as possible.
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I then dimensioned these panels to the maximum matching width and thickness I could. I had only jointed one face of the boards before glue up, finishing the thicknessing by hand after the panels were dry. I then patched the larger nail holes and knots using various sized plugs cut from the scraps.
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At this juncture I decided I probably had enough wood to attempt a chest of drawers instead of just a simple box, but I would need to recover as much useable wood from the scraps as possible. I kept aside the stuff which would be drawer fronts and set about recovering what else I could use by gluing up scraps to make other frame material and reconstituting one slat that had been crushed and/or had checked badly during drying/heat treatment, I also cut strips from the four panels at this stage to make the case narrower, giving me another 4 pieces suitable for use in drawer framing. There were no planned dimensions for this project, the number of drawers simply corresponded to the number of suitable slats I had and the final size of the glued up panels.
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IMG_8344.JPG IMG_8357.JPG
I took the one on the left the first day, a half size pallet, as it would fit easily in my car, but it was missing one of the underside support slats and had chipboard spacer blocks. At this stage I wasn't sure what I was going to make, but I decided to make something practical and as I had a need for somewhere to store turning chisels, I decided on that as a project. I started out thinking it would be a simple chest with a lid and maybe a sliding tray, but I didn't have enough wood. I returned to the free crates pile hoping there would be another similar sized pallet, but all I could find was one slightly larger one.
IMG_8356.JPGIMG_8358.JPG
In the end this amounted to slightly more timber than one full sized pallet. There is a mix of species here, at least three. As far as I can tell it might be Northwest Ponderosa Pine, Western White Pine or Poplar and something else, maybe even a hardwood (the pinkish stuff). Although there were scabby slats in there and cuts from waney ends, some was crushed and split from nailing, but the pines seem to be old/slow growth stuff with quite fine growth rings and it otherwise felt reasonably nice.
I started out gluing up enough wood to make the box's panels. The dimensions were set by the maximum size panels I could make out of the available wood, avoiding as much of the split ends and crushed boards as possible.
IMG_8359.JPG
I then dimensioned these panels to the maximum matching width and thickness I could. I had only jointed one face of the boards before glue up, finishing the thicknessing by hand after the panels were dry. I then patched the larger nail holes and knots using various sized plugs cut from the scraps.
IMG_8378.JPG IMG_8379.JPG
At this juncture I decided I probably had enough wood to attempt a chest of drawers instead of just a simple box, but I would need to recover as much useable wood from the scraps as possible. I kept aside the stuff which would be drawer fronts and set about recovering what else I could use by gluing up scraps to make other frame material and reconstituting one slat that had been crushed and/or had checked badly during drying/heat treatment, I also cut strips from the four panels at this stage to make the case narrower, giving me another 4 pieces suitable for use in drawer framing. There were no planned dimensions for this project, the number of drawers simply corresponded to the number of suitable slats I had and the final size of the glued up panels.
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