What do you do with wood shavings?

[Rocketman]

Hi all, 76 year old newbie here. I've been turning pens for a couple of months now and am enjoying it. My wood shavings have been going in the compost heap, too soon to see if they are breaking down yet.
I've now just started turning with acrylic and wood.
My question is what do other turners do with the waste? I'm not going to be spreading acrylic around the garden!
Any suggestions?

 

[Gadget-UK]

Hello Ray
Welcome to the forum.

For my Acrylic Waste (a fair amount of it) I compact it down into a little block.
Think of the Paper Log Presses and that's what I use, something like this:

My son has mine at the moment as he is compacting wood shaving / sawdust for wood briquettes

I then put those blocks into a plastic bag and drop them in the recycle bin.

 

[Rocketman]

That sounds like a good idea, never thought of compressing it.
Maybe I could compress it and then turn it back in to pens!

 

[Gert Fitcher]

Wood shavings and sawdust get stuffed into small cardboard boxes (from cereals, frozen foods, Amazon containers etc.) sealed with hot melt glue and put away for the stove in the winter.

 

[Rocketman]

Another good idea
I'm beginning to regret having the log burner taken out when we moved into this house

 

[geordie0928]

I have seen them into pen body's and it looked good too.

 

[Rocketman]

I think I'll have a go at that, make an acrylic pen with wood chips in it. But first, household and gardening jobs!

 

[Bill Mooney]

Mine all go to the local recycling centre

 

[Gert Fitcher]

. wrong thread.