reclaiming wood?
Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2014 12:50 pm
So I got a wild hair and decided to reclaim wood from a Lazy Boy recliner. Surely there would be some gems of good hardwood hiding deep inside the structure yes? Small or large pieces; I thought I could find something to carve on.
I set to with my leatherman tool, drill motor with torx bits, and a little 5?lb sledge to knock apart glued joints.
Wow, I didn't know what I was in for. If I try this again, next time I will start with perhaps a 1/4 stick of dynamite and see where that gets me. I think there is more metal in the chair than wood, by weight at least. And far more glued woods, particle board, than there was real wood.
The indestructible fabric seems to be made from some kind of blended spidersilk, spun titanium thread and kevlar nano strand technology. My knife blade almost wouldn't cut through it, and it's fairly sharp!
I didn't lose an eye from flying springs, and I lost very little knuckle meat so that's a bonus. I ended up by switching full time to the sledge hammer with a few muttered curses, and obtained maybe 3 or 4 usable little planks of wood that were certainly not worth the time and frustration.
Next thing I think I will try is one of the great big old couches I frequently see tossed out on the curb. Surely that will have more wood than finger-removing metal trap pieces eh? Oh and my tools will be a large milwaukee sawsall and maybe a chainsaw this time.
I set to with my leatherman tool, drill motor with torx bits, and a little 5?lb sledge to knock apart glued joints.
Wow, I didn't know what I was in for. If I try this again, next time I will start with perhaps a 1/4 stick of dynamite and see where that gets me. I think there is more metal in the chair than wood, by weight at least. And far more glued woods, particle board, than there was real wood.
The indestructible fabric seems to be made from some kind of blended spidersilk, spun titanium thread and kevlar nano strand technology. My knife blade almost wouldn't cut through it, and it's fairly sharp!
I didn't lose an eye from flying springs, and I lost very little knuckle meat so that's a bonus. I ended up by switching full time to the sledge hammer with a few muttered curses, and obtained maybe 3 or 4 usable little planks of wood that were certainly not worth the time and frustration.
Next thing I think I will try is one of the great big old couches I frequently see tossed out on the curb. Surely that will have more wood than finger-removing metal trap pieces eh? Oh and my tools will be a large milwaukee sawsall and maybe a chainsaw this time.