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Furniture makers a couple of miles away chucks their offcuts out every week and oh boy the haul I came away with this time 🥵 (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by CelloMike@lemmy.world to c/woodworking@lemmy.ca

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Mostly oak and cherry, and a little bit of walnut and maple

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[–] toofpic@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Are they crazy? They don't use any of that to make byproducts? You can glue a few pieces to make new wood slabs for example - of course, usually one-piece things cost more, but it's a lot of material so it's just weird it is not used at all!

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 days ago

They've probably crunched the numbers, where storing inventory and the labour to piece stuff together is more costly than just tossing out the value of the wood.

[–] CelloMike@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I think they make beds and sideboards and other big stuff, so these really are just tiny bits as far as what they're working with, I guess as the other comment says they can just write this stuff off as it'd cost more to retool to use it