Up in Flames

[upstatenybowyer]

Not sure about you folks, but I sure do love to burn up failures, scraps, and shavings! Something kinda cleansing about it. 

[DC]

I've got a huge pile of scraps under and around the bandsaw that I can't burn until they take the burning ban off. Should be soon, it's been raining for three days

[Marc St Louis]

Broken bows heat me 3 times, once when I cut the tree, once when I make the bow and once to help heat my shop in the winter after it breaks

[Eric Krewson]

Sometimes I have to grit my teeth to take a piece of bow wood scrap to the fire pit. I am always thinking "tool handle" "overlay" or whatever.

The hard part if putting it on the pile, after all my collective scrap has been burned I don't even remember what I burned and don't fret about it.

[bjrogg]

It sure cleanses my shop at the very least.lol. I actually bag up most of my shavings for my buddy Randy. He loves em for starting fires for cooking Maple Syrup.
Bjrogg

[BowEd]

Good post Jeff....I get it!!!!I do the same after Robin looks at it for use to hold her exotic plants up.....Ha Ha.Many a busted arrow shaft she's used also.Time to make some more room on the shelf of shame.I have no shortage of wood stove fire starter here either.

[upstatenybowyer]

I knew there'd be some common ground on this one.  I sure can relate to all you guys. I definitely salvage all I can before I lite the flame... (handles, overlays, lams, powerlams, shims, tool handles, smoking chips (for food), kindling). The crazy thing is I still have a ton left over to burn! I guess I really do make a lot of bows.  lol

[JEB]

Got a buddy that burns the half that breaks and makes an atlatl thrower out of the half that doesn't break.

[mullet]

I've been whittling spoons out of my broken stuff and saving all of my sawdust. I fill empty toilet paper rolls with sawdust then fill them with melted wax. harden them in the freezer and then slice into wafers on the bandsaw. Great for starting fires.

[Eric Krewson]

God idea Eddie. I save my sawdust as well, at least for a while, if I let my dust collector get over 1/3 full the bag is too heavy for me to handle easily. I dump the bag on my garden.

[mullet]

Eric, I did the same in my garden till I killed my Blueberry plants with Ipe and Walnut dust.

[Pat B]

Never use walnut sawdust or even the ashes from burnt walnuts. They produce a chemical called juglanoids that inhibits other plant growth.

[upstatenybowyer]

I've been whittling spoons out of my broken stuff and saving all of my sawdust. I fill empty toilet paper rolls with sawdust then fill them with melted wax. harden them in the freezer and then slice into wafers on the bandsaw. Great for starting fires.

That is an awesome idea Eddie. Think I might give it a try 

Never use walnut sawdust or even the ashes from burnt walnuts. They produce a chemical called juglanoids that inhibits other plant growth.

I've heard of that Pat. I believe it's why you never see any other trees growing close to a large BW.