Need ideas for wood

[Dragon]

I have some pieces of tiger wood. It has a reddish tint. The wood is 2-5/8" wide only but some pieces are up to 30 inches long. I need ideas as to what I can make with it. It is 1/4" thick.
Diane

[kerry_nf]

How 'bout some Tigers?

[workin for wood]

Face glue 3 pcs together and you can make six pens.

Could make for some interesting looking tree bark or leaves in an intarsia, or perhaps face glue them together and make the flower petals for an intarsia flower like a tiger lilly !

[Minnesota scroller]

Face glue 3 pcs together and you can make six pens.

How in the heck do you make pens with a scroll saw?

[PuzzledMoose]

How in the heck do you make pens with a scroll saw?

I'm waiting for the answer to that too?

[CanadianScroller]

Well I don't knw about pens but I do have an idea for a walking stick that I want to try.
I will keep you posted on it

You could make a nice fretwork potpourri box with the wood.
Music boxes, picture frames, letter openers, word art.... so many things so little time.

[tcleckler]

I think the pens are a good idea. Some of us that have scroll saws also have other tools, like say, wood lathes.

[Dragon]

I only have a scroll saw and I'm waiting for the instructions for the pens!!!
Thanks for all the ideas. I have quite a few of those boards and I guess I will use my imagination somewhat. I have not done intarsia yet.
Working on the mask right now and that will be my first one.
Diane

[miamw]

You're really limited in what you can make with that wood since it's only 2 5/8" wide. I've been thinking about this and just realized you can make a bunch of letter openers. I made mine from 1/4" thick wood and it worked well.

[Dragon]

Thanks Mia I will look into letter openers and I also thought of Christmas ornaments. Not sure what size they are because I've never made them yet.
Diane

[Rolf]

"How in the heck do you make pens with a scroll saw? "

You hold the wood next to the blade and spin your fingers very very fast.
It really gives you a nice texture that is hard to achieve on a lathe.

[CanadianScroller]

I still think you could make a pen with traditional scrolling.
We tend to think of pens as round and turned on a lathe but there are other ways.

But I do like your post Rolf

[workin for wood]

Don't have to have a lathe to make a pen, but it helps. buy the pen kit first, it has the instructions for the lengths of the two ends. I suggest starting with a slimline, but a scrolled pen would probably better in a cigar kit because it is fatter. Cut the wood 3/4 by 3/4 by 5 1/2 long. set the two tubes beside the blank in the order the kit tells you and then mark the two length onto the wood with a pencil. write on both sides the front and back of the pen, then cut the two lines so you now have two pieces the lenths of the tubes. Mark an x on the two ends to find the center. For a cigar pen, use drill press to drill a 10 mm barrel hole. Rough up tubes with sandpaper. Pour CA glue into holes and coat the tubes then using a pencil or dowel, push tubes into holes. Trace the outside diameter of the pen parts to the ends of the wood...you have an ink end, a center band and a cap...so you want to trace the diameters of these to the ends of your wood (if you were using a lathe you would use bushings, but this is a no lathe pen). Now carve or sand your pen to shape...an octagon or triangle shape would be easiest to do on a belt sander. At the ends, you can spin the blank on the sander down flush to your pencil lines. Sand and buff the finished wood and then press the pen parts into the blanks using your drill press and some scrap wood to prevent marring the metal.
I'm slowly accumulating parts so that I can seriously scroll some pens. You can inlay your name into the blanks to later turn on a lathe..you can inlay designs, you can cut and glue curved and or compounded segments into a pen blank...Sky's the limit!
Here's two examples...the first is a pen that could be done without a lathe and the second is a scrolled pen that obviously needs a lathe..it's a "Gisi Pen"
Definitely something to aspire to...just what I need, another hobby to bankrupt me.

[Bill Wilson]

Diane,

Most ornaments can be any size you want. If you find a pattern you like, just reduce the size when you copy it until it fits your material. I have access to the office copier here at work, so I do this all the time. May be a little more involved if you have to use a copying service to accomplish this, but it's a thought.

[Minnesota scroller]

I still think you could make a pen with traditional scrolling.
We tend to think of pens as round and turned on a lathe but there are other ways.

But I do like your post Rolf

Actually, when you think about it, you could make octagon shaped pens with a scroll saw and sander. Interesting concept.