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9 Responses to “Quiz: Are You a Cheapskate Woodworker??!!”

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   Heck yeah I'm a cheapskate woodworker! Says:
   August 20th, 2008 at 4:48 pm

   I once made an entire workbench from dunnage. It took about 6 months because we only got one delivery a week with about 2 or 3 ratty 2×4’s as dunnage. Slather them with glue, shoot them in with a zillion nails and before you know it, you’ve got a 3-1/2 in thick workbench top that weighs a ton and takes a beating, fer nearly nothing!

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   toolcrib Says:
   August 20th, 2008 at 7:56 pm

   Yup – definitely a cheapskate.

   This quote’s goin’ in the newsletter ;)

   Thanks for stopping by.

   G

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   Obi Says:
   August 27th, 2008 at 11:42 am

   To everything there is a purpose… Ecc 3:1

   people who throw away wood have no vision for the smaller things that too have their place in the world.

   I was stopping at 3/4″ x 3/4″ x 12″ until i bought a dowel maker now anything 3/8″ square can be a dowel.

   And then i started saving the thin strips of leftover wood for pinstriping laminates…

   there is no waste. And the router lumps make firestarter

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   Jim Says:
   August 28th, 2008 at 8:31 pm

   I admit I even save the fine sawdust from the orbital sander collection bag – might need to make filler out of it!

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   Michael Says:
   August 29th, 2008 at 6:59 am

   Like Jim, I save sawdust to make filler. I have a bag from a deck I made years ago, I don’t even live at that house anymore! I packed up the bag of sawdust and it moved with the shop.

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   Brew Says:
   August 31st, 2008 at 1:23 pm

   This quiz is rigged. No matter how you answer the questions you get the same answer. I took it normally, then tried the “least frugal” answers, and last the most frugal, and each time it had the same results.

   Brew

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   toolcrib Says:
   August 31st, 2008 at 4:36 pm

   Hey Brew – it’s not rigged deliberately. If it’s returning the same results then it could be we have some problems with the quiz application (which we’re still perfecting). I will check into it.

   You *should* be able to manipulate the results by selecting the answers that suggest one of three results. Frugal’s the middle one.

   Again, I’ll take a look.

   G

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   toolcrib Says:
   August 31st, 2008 at 4:43 pm

   I was able to get all three results when I just now tested the quiz… I did weight the quiz towards frugal when I made it because I think most folks are frugal rather than truly cheapskates…

   Here’s a cheapskate:
   http://stusshed.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/cheapskate-woodworker-quiz/

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   dpocius Says:
   May 31st, 2009 at 6:12 pm

   Tearing down an old shed, I ended up with a bunch of odd-sized 1/2″ plywood that should have rightly been trashed. It was horribly weathered and quite warped in spots. I figured out that I could cut it into 12″ wide strips and laminate it into 1″ thick shelves of any length. I used subfloor construction glue (the stuff in the big caulking tubes) to laminate the layers and used 3/4″ drywall screws at the piece ends and plenty of rocks and concrete blocks to flatten the stack while drying. The trick is to overlap the joints between sections in the middle of the piece on the other side. The shelves are really strong and almost free, after a coat of leftover primer and house paint I wouldn’t use on my house.

   To complete the cheap shelves, I used those folded sheet-metal triple-shelf brackets you used to see at all the big-box home stores years ago. I had to order them online from Ace Hardware, but at a dollar per support, they’re the cheapest thing going, and again, quite strong, even on 32″ centers. Now I have a 6 shelf 1′ wide by 14′ long floor-to-ceiling storage wall in the garage for perhaps 50 bucks.

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