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General Category => General Scroll Saw Talk => Topic started by: king310 on April 10, 2013, 08:41:11 pm

Title: SAWDUST
Post by: king310 on April 10, 2013, 08:41:11 pm: I was busy making sawdust Tuesday. The fact is it filled a lawn leaf bag. All aromatic red cedar that was approx. a 33 gallon trash can over flowing. I have put twice that amount out for trash pickup the last few weeks.
Running rough sawn cedar through the jointer and planer.
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Post by: Al W on April 10, 2013, 08:43:03 pm: Makes for a fine smelling shop!
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Post by: dirtrider73068 on April 10, 2013, 09:46:12 pm: Love the smell of cedar, if I could have a house smell like cedar all the time I would be in heaven, as a kid I loved going into the lumber store and smell fresh lumber.
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Post by: IBMer on April 10, 2013, 11:45:24 pm: I have to agree. I turned a bowl with Red Cedar a few weeks ago and my shop still smells of it.
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Post by: Scroll Down on April 11, 2013, 06:18:55 am: I wonder of it could be used somehow?

Bag it in mesh and toss in a drawer or closet, spread it around the garden to keep insects away?

Got to be a good use for it, any ideas or has anyone done something with it before?
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Post by: rob roy on April 11, 2013, 07:31:57 am: Nothing to beat the smell of cedar, King. The other benefit of cedar, you won't have MOTHS in the workshop. ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
Rob Roy.
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Post by: Billy in Va on April 11, 2013, 08:38:28 am: My wife is a spinner. she spins mostly alpaca but some sheep wools also. When I have scraps or shaving of aromatic cedar, she puts it in her raw fiber th help protect from moths and other critters.
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Post by: Kepy on April 11, 2013, 08:44:44 am: It makes great animal bedding. I know a guy who made more from the planer shavings than from his cedar projects.
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Post by: Marcellarius on April 11, 2013, 09:33:19 am: red ceder smells great indeed! love working with it.

they sell little hangers (3/8" thick +/- 2x4") for between clothes here at the dry wash for the smell and the moths!
(http://www.deonlinedrogist.nl/images/res/_i_Cederhout_anti_mot_hanger3wwm_204_546.jpg)
with some extra ceder oils to refresh the scent.
$5 for the wood and $ 5 for the oil (0.33oz) ......
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Post by: Jim Finn on April 11, 2013, 08:18:48 pm: I also toss out a lot of cedar sawdust. About a 30 gallon bag a month 12 months a year. I had a guy that took it to compost but he has lost interest I guess.
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Post by: ShadowB6 on April 13, 2013, 01:24:03 pm: Jim, 360 gallons a year of cedar sawdust. You must be getting close to finishing building your city sometime soon. That's a lot of board feet.

Mike
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Post by: Jim Finn on April 13, 2013, 07:01:14 pm: Yes I buy rough cedar a pick up load at a time every nine months or so. 360 gallons of sawdust is a low estimate.
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Post by: bow152 on April 14, 2013, 06:52:48 am: they used to put it into little lace bags and put them in wardrobes and cupboards