I’m sorry that happened to you, and I appreciate you sharing that with us.

gail

how awesome Rosanne! A planer…. on my wish list!

thanks for sharing your ideas.

gail

My husband and I totally remodeled a 1912 4-square house 2 years ago. We saved a ton of the old lathe. Since then we have made hundreds of little boxes from this wood. I put them through the planer first and before brad nailing them together we sand the individual pieces on the belt sander to remove splinters. These are used to sell my homemade soaps in. The more holes in the wood (knots and nail holes) the better they sell. We just hope to have saved enough lathe for future projects. He just made me a valentine heart using some of the damaged old flooring we could not savage. I had in the back of my mind that we should have tried lathe. I just may do it yet!

MJ,
don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t criticizing the project. It came out well and looks good. Lathe hasn’t been used in such a long time, and whatever is still on the walls has been up on the walls even longer. Like I stated previously, it’s very dry, brittle wood. Most times you find it, they are in short unworkable pieces. From my POV not even worth the trouble to work with. For the time, effort used and cost, it’s not feasible. It’s cheaper
to purchase that at the dollar store. Ladies, ask you man for his opinion on working with lathe. You time will be well spent using a better medium, and longer lasting as well.

Gail, Do try not to embed the splinters in so far that the glue can’t reach them! Which would require a minor surgical procedure to do on yourself……ouch!!!
I’m going to use what I have and try to get a wooden valentine made for my sweetheart’s new DIL’s wall. Pallet scraps in this case. I should be lucky enough to get house parts from a place with walls of wood lathe…!!!!!Not gonna happen where I live.

Isn’t it great to live in a free country where everyone can speak up? (Well, so far, anyway…)

Great points from you as well MJ.

Nope, no splinters, and I love FREE wood, no matter where it came from or who was paid to remove it. All I had to do was pick it up. The guy who was paid to do it earned his money. 🙂

Super tip about the glue. Since I don’t have anyone to help me remove splinters, this is one I need to remember.

All opinions are always welcome.

gail

Edward,
Good points from the POV of a practical person. But this is a little quick project to make a temporary decoration, not about a new firewood source. And Gail didn’t complain about splinters, so i expect she didn’t have a problem with that. With your warning at hand other crafters might take notice, but i imagine that if splinters were the issue, with anyone’s project, everyone reading this blog would be aware of that from the get-go and act accordingly.

You might have helped by pointing out that to remove those splinters, were it necessary, one can paint on a coat of white glue, let it dry and then peel off the glue– and the splinter. It’s worked for me every time, so far, while building a trellis for my grape vines.

Life is short, enjoy it, and let the DIYers learn for themselves whatever they need to learn about.
I kinda think it’s nice you bothered to read in the first place……cheers, friend, and happy decorating to you……

And thanks to gail for inviting us to speak our minds…….