Hit the Wall on Ideas

[robbjrc (John Cary)]

I’ve practiced on my Shapeoko Pro XXL now since the first of this year when it arrived. I feel a need to do something worthwhile now and not just practices and tests. I have a 2’ x 4’ piece of birch playwood. I’d like to make something out of the entire piece or maybe multiples of a useful tool made from this piece of plywood.

Any ideas what I might do with it?

sorry…3/4" thickness

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Thickness of the plywood?

Do you have any other materials which you would wish to include in the build?

[72begin (Bill Tumbleson)]

Not sure how thick the plywood is but a couple of ideas comes to mind.

A toy helicopter from CutRocket.com

Or - if you are a woodworker - wooden knobs for jigs are always useful.

Bill

[Julien]

make a (small) piece of furniture and then use the opportunity to test Osmo oil finish on that ply, like @LiamN did on the cool desk in that post:

XXL with new enclosure

It’s a really nice finish on furniture, I used it on baltic birch ply for the desk I built for my friend; https://www.instagram.com/eikarumba/?hl=en You just wipe it on and buff it off, a couple of coats and you get a dry, satin, tactile finish. It still feels like real wood and there’s just enough sheen to look finished, you need to catch the angle right to get any reflection though. If you use it on BB ply, when they say sparingly and spread it thin, they really mean it, really really thin,…

[robbjrc (John Cary)]

I’ve tried walnut and have some of that and some 1" rough stock - not sure what it is but it’s very stringy.
I’ve used resin/epoxy with some success. I thought about gluing together two 18" x 8" pieces of this 3/4" plywood and trying to make make-up holder for my wife with various sized holes for her brushes, lipstick, tweezers and other things like that. Even 1 1/4" thickness is probably not enough and needs about 2 1/2". These brushes and things are top heavy and need to fit about 70% into the thickness to stay upright.

Thanks for the ideas.

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Is your wife a gardener?

I think you could manage to make a kneeling bench out of that much wood (depending on height).

[neilferreri (Neil Ferreri Ω)]

@robbjrc

trying to make make-up holder for my wife

Don’t use solid layers and you’d have no problem making that.
Something like this:

CNC Makeup Organizer

Or one like this, but with hexagons of course.

[Tod1d (Tod (with 1 'd'))]

What about some clamps & guides for the machine. Something like Bamboo clamp set made using an IKEA APTITLIG

[Bobster (Robert Plante)]

I made a few organiser when starting a year ago with birch plywood, There are simple and useful. Here are two of them. First one is finished with shellac and the second is waiting for a black paint. The second one requires a 3d software to round the edges, it was a good practice.

Also like suggested by Tod, I have done some clamps. Done also a bit organiser…

Hoping that it might inspire you something…

[robbjrc (John Cary)]

Thank you all . Great ideas and inspiration!!!