Up-Cycling

[Bryan Milham]

As a follow-on from Paul Disdle’s Ballduck and his source for the pool balls. There is a movement, slowly growing but gaining ground, for Up-Cycling old items.

What items do you look for to add to or aid your work and what way do you source them?

As a start;

• Previously I've posted pictures of glass bottles and pots I've found in Charity Shops for which I’ve made new lids – they sell well.

I use Car-Boot sales for;

• candles to seal the end-grain of my blanks.
• Seashells to add to my turnings.
• Cheap ceramics with attractive shapes I can use as a starter shape on a vase or somesuch (I’m getting a bit of a collection and some toe-tapping from SWMBO!)
• Anything I can hang ornaments from as I’ve not found a reasonable source in the UK.
• Nail varnish – wonderful colours (and textures) to add to some of my coloured work.
• Old Cast Steel chisels for making ‘one-off’ tools,
• And more, but lets hear from some of you as well.

[Les Symonds]

Well-weathered old oak fence-posts and any interesting scraps out of the woodpile. Chair legs and table legs.

[The Bowler Hatted Turner]

I up-cycle Oak trees into door wedges amongst other things,...........does that count?
regards
John BHT

[bodrighywood]

Pewter tankards to melt down, Old furniture especially 50's for oak, parana pine and Spanish mahogany. Old stools often have elm seats as well. Glass ware for T lights and lidded jars, old chisels same reason as Dragon. Old jewellery and glass beads for various decorative purposes.

Pete

[John D Smith]

I have posted this picture before these weed pots were made from old Cleaved Oak fence posts.

                                                          Regards John

[Les Symonds]

I'm currently up-cycling things like this...



and like this...



into things like this...





I'll put a bit more info about them in the gallery.
Les