For build plans, head over to my website: www.4cubedwoodworks.com or to Etsy: www.etsy.com/listing/1382883872/acoustic-cell-phone-speaker-build-plans?ref=listings_manager_grid
Late to the party, but the wooden circles could be used as locking rollers for french cleat tool holders. Just drill an off centre hole in them and add a screw or dowel as the lever. They can then be attached to the back of a tool holder and then rotated to lock it into place so it doesnt come off the cleat.
Suggestion for the circle cutouts: My neighbor is a retired gentleman from the Ford motor company. He worked the assembly line. In his retirement he makes dozens of wooden vehicles (dump trucks, pick-ups, planes, bulldozers, fire trucks etc.) All have working parts and completely made from wood alone. He uses the cut outs for wheels. Come Christmas time he'll have made maybe 50 toys made from scraps and donates them to daycares, orphanages, Toys-4-Tots etc. so that underprivileged kids get something special and made with love. Now that my son is all grown up, I can't give up the trucks Bobby made for my boy. I have them displayed proudly in my workshop!
My daughter received a tiny wooden cradle (about 6”) with a tiny baby doll (5”) once when she needed to spend a day outpatient at our local children’s hospital. It was such a precious little gift that she adored. It completely overshadowed the very unpleasant testing she endured that day. It was all she talked about and the only thing she played with for a long time afterwards. It was probably 15 years ago, and she still has it. Never underestimate the power of a handmade-with-love gift. It was just 5 little pieces of wood, but it transformed my daughter’s traumatic day into one filled with love and wonder. As a family, we are now learning woodworking together. She wants to make tiny cradles for scared little girls like she was.
For the round cutouts, if you route the edges and put a dowel in it you have wooden tops. The dowel can be pointed with a pencil sharpener. You can also make yo-yos, feeder-rollers for your saws, drawer pulls, coathooks, furniture wheels, container stoppers, and if you put a wide rubber band on it and lazer engrave the sides they can be roller stamps for applying designs to your projects.
2:30 An idea for those hole-saw circle offcuts: How many times have you had a metal patio chair with legs designed to set on a concrete patio or deck, but you have it in the yard or on a gravel pad, and the legs poke into the dirt or dig into the gravels? Usually those legs have a plastic plug, like a stopper in the end of the tubing. Simply drill a hole up into the bottom of that plug and attach that circle onto the leg with a washer and screw. The circle functions like a little snowshoe for the leg and prevents that poking or digging in. Paint them the color of the chair leg if you like. And if you want to remove them later, the drilled hole left behind in the plastic plug is no problem, as it'll function like a weep hole for any moisture that gets trapped anywhere in the tubing!
@@4cubedwoodworks My pleasure! And I don't have a deck for those screw heads to poke or scratch the wood, but for those who do, just take a larger paddle or Forstner bit and make a countersink for the washer and head.
Loved the stand. Put the rounds in a bag and sell them as a crafters bundle of wood rounds. I'm a crafter and I would see these as a fun challenge to use in craft projects.
George Stevenson already mentioned "drum sanders" and I think that is a solution to another issue mentioned in this video itself: Lots of leftover round cutouts, hard to sand the inside of the round cutouts... just knock another 1/8" (or however thick your sandpaper is) off the outside of a couple of circles, bind them together with glue and/or dowels, glue some sandpaper around the outside, and you solved both problems at once. You could also round off and smooth out those leftover circles and bind them together to make a bar for paper towels or toilet paper (depending on the OD of the circle and the ID of the paper towel roll). Or to make any kind of roller you need around the shop or house. You can also bind 2 or 3 of those together and hard-mount them to anything with a backing fence and use them for bending metal scrollwork (you might not need more than 1 depending on how thick or tall your metal piece is). Or cut them in half so they have a flat bottom and use the round tops wherever you want to make some kind of scale or balancing decoration. Or turn that upside down and mount the flat part to anything you want to make into a rocking/seesaw motion.
Make a puck shooter. All of those pucks become ammo. Or use them like clay pigeons for a skeet shoot. Or do both. The things you can do with those is countless. Knobs, wheels for toys, wind chime center piece, jump stops on barn doors, coasters if they are wide enough, glue a bunch together to make a blow gun, put a piece of all thread throw like 20 of them at a time and make a roller table for the end of your table saw, string a bunch together to make one of those rain spout things they use instead of a down spout, put them on the sound box you made so they look like a toy wagon, put two together connected with a dowel in the center to make a yoyo, glue them all together with a piece of all thread thru them to make roller pins for the kitchen, turn them into jar lids like you see on candles, string a bunch together to make those door way bead things that hang from the top of a doorway, make toy tops (the kind you spin and let go on a table),etc etc etc. Or you can feed the wood burner with them. Lol
Thanks for the heads up. I've actually been to Savannah once and it was absolutely beautiful down there. Try rolling pins, wheels for wooden cars or notch out teeth in your scrap circles for wooden gears to make for a childs toy
@@4cubedwoodworks I'm thinking abacus (substitute for the beads) & especially giant modern art kind of wall clocks. Similarly wooden fruit bowls, cylindrical chandeliers (like the fabric ones at ikea)
Use those little circles for the center of wind chimes. Attach them to the longest sting on the wind chime. That piece is there to swing. Great job on the spreader boosters!
@@4cubedwoodworks yep… you may be able to even sell them to someone who makes wind chimes if you don’t want to make them. I’m always trying to figure out how to use my scrap wood too.
I had some drawer pulls that I made for drawers in my shop and I made them by cutting an oval hole the width of my hand and simply putting a pull over that so I could reach into the cavity and pull it out. In making the ovals I used a circle cutter and that left a circle with a flange on it that looked like a train wheel, so my grandkids and I made some train engines out of wood and used them as wheels. Yours doesn't have the flange, but they would make great wheels for kids autos, buses, trains etc. One wooden train set would take several wheels. I mounted them using copper tubing that I inserted into the wheel as a bushing so it would not wear so quickly and then used a lag bold thru that into the body of the engine which was simply a plank of wood with an octagonal shaped body fashioned and placed on the plank for the engine itself. A little cabin was placed behind the hex to depict the cab of the train. It was a steam train of course. A good time was had by all!!
Clever item, love the way the sound travels out from the ‘speaker’ hole, genius! You could use the left over rounds, put a metal rod through centre hole (glue them together, sand n fill), for a bird table pole. 😊 Can you tell I don’t do much wood working😅, but I enjoyed watching a pro at work!
Those little circles make great wheels for custom wood toys like cars and trucks. Or you can glue and stack them to make a block for turning trees on a lathe with one circle as the base.
Awesome design. I'd suggest you make a glue up jig which keeps all the boards aligned for quick clamping after applying glue. It would look something like an rectangular feeding tray with both side ends panels removed.
Nice job. The acoustic speaker idea should increease the volume in addition to projecting the sound. I have used offcut plugs as checkers on an oversize/outdoor chessboard and as throwing pieces for cornhole games. The hard disks increase the difficulty.
When i have round scrap I use them for wheels on cars, pickup trucks, & tractors I use up all my small scrap this way. For the tractors & monster trucks I take the wheels to the band saw and put tread on them. Only thing I purchase is the 1/4 in bolts, washers and nuts for the axel. I put a drop of LOCTITE on the nut so the kids can not take them off. I have fun watching the kids play with them.
Great design and that’s awesome that you’re getting so many orders for them! They look great! Have you considered making an American Flag version? I think you could pull it off and potentially charge more, depending on how much it adds to labor & materials. If nothing else, it could be a cool follow-up video to this one, which often helps boost your channel. Keep up the good work!
@@4cubedwoodworks it would sell like hotcakes on a cold morning!!! Make color and washed out versions blue gray ... And ... and.... if ya make some MAGA w/ skull & Blonde wave hair you could become RICH ❤ ROFL 🎉TRUMP 47🎉
Idea for circles. Cloth check board set. Use the circles as checkers. The hole in the middle can be used for a string or dowel. The cloth checker board to be wrapped around the checkers. Secured with string, strap, velcro. A little paint some cord and atoll of cloth that you could spray a checker pattern on. Not a bad idea even if you had to make the checkers.
Build wooden cars and trucks with the circles. Years ago when our son was in grade school the class was supposed to build something to go along with the old west. We worked together on building a covered wagon. Dad welded metal parts, son and I worked on the wooden parts and the canvas covering. Turned out pretty awesome but that might be another idea.
My dad use to make Toy train sets by the tons. In the cars and engine, the windows are cut with a hole saw art the top. He had piles of them too. Then he started making 3d tick tac toe boards. You cut a square base and put 9 dowel rods in the place of the normal tic tac toe squares. Then stack them 3 high so you will have 27 per game board. Take 14 of them and stain them one color and do the rest natural or a different color. Then to play the game you can score points a lot like connect four. Straight in a row on any level diagonal across any level or straight up one post 3 in a row plus the normal ways times 3 levels. It is a hell a lot more fun than the normal tic tac toe. Also YO-YOs Hope it helps.
@@4cubedwoodworks I live in Bakersfield, CA and it snowed 2 times in the last 50 years. I make yard art snowmen out of wood. I cut the buttons with a hole saw.
You could use those cutoff circles as wheels for kids to make little cars or trucks. Actually made a semi truck and trailer cribbage board in middle school.
Leftover circles: Write the letters TUIT on both sides. Put it in a small jewelry type box. Have a small piece of paper inside that says, you said you would _________ when you got around to it. Well here you go!
You could make bottle openers with the circular cutouts by putting a bottle opener insert in them. You just need a couple of forstner bits for the insert and cavity.
I would make a magnetic soap holder from the cut out: a piece of dowelling about 25mm thick and 75mm long, screwed into the cut out from the back. Screw a countersunk magnet to the end of the dowel, pointing downwards. The magnets I use have a diameter of 15mm and are 3mm thick. A beer bottle top pressed into the top of a moistened soap bar makes a great "receiver" for the magnet. You can use double-sided tape to attach the holder to the wall in your bathroom or kitchen. Make sure the soap is moist before you press the bottle cap in, otherwise the soap will likely not be caught properly by the bottle cap. You only have to do this moistening exercise once.
On your circles, I will run a quarter inch carriage bolt thru, then put a large washer and nut on the other side, then tighten the nut on the washer until the head of the bolt is pulled into the other side. Makes a fine, hand screw for certain projects. I use them to make a knock-apart table where I used these to tighten the legs to the table top.
I was contemplating on what to make today, viola, your video popped up. I usually set my phone on my chop saw and bounce the sound off of the fence, this is a great idea, thanks. There's so many things to do with those round left overs, selling them in bundles would make many craters happy, for me i'm going to make drum sanders and sanding wheels, wooden turn knobs, maybe a few games and group some together for a tape dispenser.
My grandson is a self taught woodworker. He was asking me for suggestions, and I turned to RUclips and found your channel. I’m now a subscriber. I think your phone box is brilliant! May he get your permission to make these to sell? He would be using inlaid patterns he likes to make, but he would acknowledge your design, of course! Thanks in advance for your time and for your design skills!
I love projects like this. Simple and fun. I would trade out the hole saw for a nice forstner bit. They produce such a clean hole, no sanding required. My favorites have carbide tips.
You can make knobs for jigs and shop fixtures. You need a small 5"x5" board with the same diameter hole as the round pcs you have, cut out of the center of the board. Next using a 3/8" to 1/2" drill bit, drill 4 holes evenly around the cutout in the board so half of the drill bit bites into wood and the other half of the bit is in the empty area of the cutout. Then place the round of wood into the cutout and drill into it with the corresponding drill bit you used,(3/8 or 1/2") into the holes already drilled out. They are now a guide for the drill bit placement to make each knob. It's a reusable jig for making that size knob. I usually use a bolt washer on top and the bottom of the knob. It's a good way to use them. Or you can glue several together on a long threaded rod. Once dry cut a line through them length-wise about halfway. Don't cut right to the bolt. Then cut a piece of sandpaper to fit around the wood cylinder, and tuck the ends into the slot. If they are tight in the slot great, but if they are loose, cut a piece of wood as a wedge into the slot to hold the ends in. Just cut it a little longer than the cylinder and flush with the sandpaper.
@@4cubedwoodworks ooo, or even, cut in half for handles with a m and t style connection. Maybe a small flourish jigsaw cut away even. Ideas are coming together!
This would make much more sense for the scraps I have than some of the all day cutting, sanding and glue up of one table. People just starting out with woodworking, especially selling their work would find this so much easier and less frustrating that building bigger items. Thanks
Round blocks with the centers drilled out with forstner bits or into about a 1/4 to 1/2 an inch will make great furniture leg risers, or anti-wobbling table spacers, or planter feet for setting ceramic planters on glass tables...
You could glue all of the circles together to make a big dowel that you could use as a leg for some furniture. Or could once as a dowel type thing, could use on a lathe or drill type set up and turn to make banisters or any other type things people make with lathes Or you could glue the circles onto the bottom of boxes or furniture as little legs either one thick or stack to get desired height. Just some ideas
So one thing you can use those discs for is legs for a tray that you might put a candle, a plant & a framed photograph. You might also make some wooden beads on jute with a tassel at the end. No one says the beads must be spherical. I think those disks would look great as a beaded garland.
I recently done a job that left me a load of wooden circles just like yours I glued them together to the lengh of my choice sanded them and used them as legs for some side tables
Camber the edges of the circles, shove a rigid rod through the center and make table legs, cancel sticks... Use a hollow table and make a lamp. You can stain or paint the discs in different colors or shades for a fun twist.
A 1-1/2” diameter drum sander, like attaches to a drill, would make sanding the holes easier. Or, you could easily make one from one of the cutouts. Cut a slit to hold the ends of the sandpaper and use a bolt for a shaft. If a slightly larger diameter is needed, just put thin foam-backed sandpaper on the round disk or double up the sandpaper.
Laminate the circles, make some rolling pins, or use them for tires on wooden toys, or use them as a decorative embellishment for frame, or on a mirror frame, cut them in half and use them for scallop decoration on a frame or moulding, use them in your shop to hold tools on the wall with a screw through them cut them in half and use them for spacers, for tools in a drawer, use the circles for wheels on boxes, in your shop
For the circles put them all together and put a rod of some kind through them glue them all and make a nice curtain rod would be a nice wood grain in them stained up.
If you have a source of wax or heavy grease from cooking, you can put four or five of your wheel cut outs on a stick, like a shiskabab and dip it in a little wax and blow wood shavings from your shaper or jointer or planer to make them prickly like a shrub and then set them ablaze in your wood burning stove or fire place as a fire starter.
Sand the splinters off the edges of the circles.. Glue the center of the circles, and press them on a dowel of snug fit.. Also gluing the circles together as you stack them along the dowel.. Leave the dowel about 1" out at both ends.. Once clamped and dried, clean off excess glue.. You now have a roller for an outfeed stand for your planter, jointer, table saw, etc.
I noticed a comment that suggested toy car wheels for your circle cut outs. You could also make them into knobs for jig making, sell them by the dozen pack. Just add the 1/4-20 bolt.
For the round cutouts you could sell them as little carving blanks for folks who make jewellery or as I’m sure someone will have already mentioned make little handles - use another hole saw and partially take bites out of the rounds (equally spaced) to create dimples and put a threaded insert in the centre and hey presto …..a knob! 😂
you can use the left over round pieces for a cutting board, just fill up an area with the rounds then cut to fill the other areas, then use resin to hold it all together.
Great video and great build. I live in Bloomingdale not far from Savannah and I dabble in woodworking. I have the same tablesaw as you. Its great seeing someone locale on the old RUclips. Take xare.
Not sure if anyone has already said it but that round pieces would make some pretty cool Christmas trees, pumpkins, even carrot shapes by putting them flat onto a board or canvas or something like that.
Christmas ornaments was the first thing to come to mind. Maybe do something special to decorate them and have your neighbor send one with each toy! The rest of the rounds can be your business cards. If you go to shows they can be handed out. New subscriber, enjoyed the video. Thanks!
You can either take the cut ups and give them to people that say they'll do something when they get around to it, and tell him it's a round to it. Or wheels for wooden toys. Put several together to make a sanding drum. Just off the top of my head. Have fun with it.
@@4cubedwoodworks You are welcome! Your videos are fun! 😊 I hope you have a chance to make some more! It is nice to see others apply what they have learned from utubers - it is very helpful so thank you!
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Late to the party, but the wooden circles could be used as locking rollers for french cleat tool holders. Just drill an off centre hole in them and add a screw or dowel as the lever. They can then be attached to the back of a tool holder and then rotated to lock it into place so it doesnt come off the cleat.
Guys…… I don’t think he was really on the phone….. give that man an Oscar!
Reenactment of actual call…LOL. Thanks for the Oscar nomination.
I think most of us knew that
Suggestion for the circle cutouts: My neighbor is a retired gentleman from the Ford motor company. He worked the assembly line. In his retirement he makes dozens of wooden vehicles (dump trucks, pick-ups, planes, bulldozers, fire trucks etc.) All have working parts and completely made from wood alone. He uses the cut outs for wheels. Come Christmas time he'll have made maybe 50 toys made from scraps and donates them to daycares, orphanages, Toys-4-Tots etc. so that underprivileged kids get something special and made with love.
Now that my son is all grown up, I can't give up the trucks Bobby made for my boy. I have them displayed proudly in my workshop!
Very nice idea. Thanks!
Great idea
I used to make Conestoga wagons for my kids. A little canvas for the top, bailing wire for the hoops, and the extra round cutouts for the wheels.
My daughter received a tiny wooden cradle (about 6”) with a tiny baby doll (5”) once when she needed to spend a day outpatient at our local children’s hospital. It was such a precious little gift that she adored. It completely overshadowed the very unpleasant testing she endured that day. It was all she talked about and the only thing she played with for a long time afterwards. It was probably 15 years ago, and she still has it. Never underestimate the power of a handmade-with-love gift. It was just 5 little pieces of wood, but it transformed my daughter’s traumatic day into one filled with love and wonder.
As a family, we are now learning woodworking together. She wants to make tiny cradles for scared little girls like she was.
@@anniathome God bless you and your daughter. I hope you are all well and paying the joy forward.
For the round cutouts, if you route the edges and put a dowel in it you have wooden tops. The dowel can be pointed with a pencil sharpener. You can also make yo-yos, feeder-rollers for your saws, drawer pulls, coathooks, furniture wheels, container stoppers, and if you put a wide rubber band on it and lazer engrave the sides they can be roller stamps for applying designs to your projects.
Cool. Thanks!
2:30 An idea for those hole-saw circle offcuts: How many times have you had a metal patio chair with legs designed to set on a concrete patio or deck, but you have it in the yard or on a gravel pad, and the legs poke into the dirt or dig into the gravels? Usually those legs have a plastic plug, like a stopper in the end of the tubing. Simply drill a hole up into the bottom of that plug and attach that circle onto the leg with a washer and screw. The circle functions like a little snowshoe for the leg and prevents that poking or digging in. Paint them the color of the chair leg if you like. And if you want to remove them later, the drilled hole left behind in the plastic plug is no problem, as it'll function like a weep hole for any moisture that gets trapped anywhere in the tubing!
That’s excellent. I love that idea. Thanks
@@4cubedwoodworks My pleasure! And I don't have a deck for those screw heads to poke or scratch the wood, but for those who do, just take a larger paddle or Forstner bit and make a countersink for the washer and head.
Loved the stand. Put the rounds in a bag and sell them as a crafters bundle of wood rounds. I'm a crafter and I would see these as a fun challenge to use in craft projects.
I agree!! I'm a crafter, too, and I would certainly buy these should I see them somewhere!! Cute and inventive contraption you've made!!
Cool. Thabks
Very cool, will have to make one to see how they sound.
On the round leftovers put the letters T U I T so they become Round Tuits!
Thanks!
Yep had them MFKers....don't work lol
George Stevenson already mentioned "drum sanders" and I think that is a solution to another issue mentioned in this video itself: Lots of leftover round cutouts, hard to sand the inside of the round cutouts... just knock another 1/8" (or however thick your sandpaper is) off the outside of a couple of circles, bind them together with glue and/or dowels, glue some sandpaper around the outside, and you solved both problems at once.
You could also round off and smooth out those leftover circles and bind them together to make a bar for paper towels or toilet paper (depending on the OD of the circle and the ID of the paper towel roll). Or to make any kind of roller you need around the shop or house.
You can also bind 2 or 3 of those together and hard-mount them to anything with a backing fence and use them for bending metal scrollwork (you might not need more than 1 depending on how thick or tall your metal piece is).
Or cut them in half so they have a flat bottom and use the round tops wherever you want to make some kind of scale or balancing decoration. Or turn that upside down and mount the flat part to anything you want to make into a rocking/seesaw motion.
Wow. Thank you!
Make a puck shooter. All of those pucks become ammo.
Or use them like clay pigeons for a skeet shoot.
Or do both.
The things you can do with those is countless.
Knobs, wheels for toys, wind chime center piece, jump stops on barn doors, coasters if they are wide enough, glue a bunch together to make a blow gun, put a piece of all thread throw like 20 of them at a time and make a roller table for the end of your table saw, string a bunch together to make one of those rain spout things they use instead of a down spout, put them on the sound box you made so they look like a toy wagon, put two together connected with a dowel in the center to make a yoyo, glue them all together with a piece of all thread thru them to make roller pins for the kitchen, turn them into jar lids like you see on candles, string a bunch together to make those door way bead things that hang from the top of a doorway, make toy tops (the kind you spin and let go on a table),etc etc etc.
Or you can feed the wood burner with them. Lol
All great ideas! Thanks!
Thanks for the heads up. I've actually been to Savannah once and it was absolutely beautiful down there. Try rolling pins, wheels for wooden cars or notch out teeth in your scrap circles for wooden gears to make for a childs toy
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed Savannah.
@@4cubedwoodworks I'm thinking abacus (substitute for the beads) & especially giant modern art kind of wall clocks. Similarly wooden fruit bowls, cylindrical chandeliers (like the fabric ones at ikea)
That's such a simple idea , it's " diabolical"
Hahaha-evil laugh
Use those little circles for the center of wind chimes. Attach them to the longest sting on the wind chime. That piece is there to swing. Great job on the spreader boosters!
Great idea!
@@4cubedwoodworks yep… you may be able to even sell them to someone who makes wind chimes if you don’t want to make them. I’m always trying to figure out how to use my scrap wood too.
I had some drawer pulls that I made for drawers in my shop and I made them by cutting an oval hole the width of my hand and simply putting a pull over that so I could reach into the cavity and pull it out. In making the ovals I used a circle cutter and that left a circle with a flange on it that looked like a train wheel, so my grandkids and I made some train engines out of wood and used them as wheels. Yours doesn't have the flange, but they would make great wheels for kids autos, buses, trains etc. One wooden train set would take several wheels. I mounted them using copper tubing that I inserted into the wheel as a bushing so it would not wear so quickly and then used a lag bold thru that into the body of the engine which was simply a plank of wood with an octagonal shaped body fashioned and placed on the plank for the engine itself. A little cabin was placed behind the hex to depict the cab of the train. It was a steam train of course. A good time was had by all!!
That sounds great. I love that. Thanks
Clever item, love the way the sound travels out from the ‘speaker’ hole, genius! You could use the left over rounds, put a metal rod through centre hole (glue them together, sand n fill), for a bird table pole. 😊 Can you tell I don’t do much wood working😅, but I enjoyed watching a pro at work!
Your too kind. Thanks. 😁
Those little circles make great wheels for custom wood toys like cars and trucks. Or you can glue and stack them to make a block for turning trees on a lathe with one circle as the base.
Yes. Thanks!
Congrats.
Coming up with nifty original ideas like that, that sell well, is the holy grail of woodworking.
It sure is!
For the circle cutouts, flatten one side of them so they glue up and make snowman ornaments for the Christmas tree.
Nice idea. Thanks
Awesome design. I'd suggest you make a glue up jig which keeps all the boards aligned for quick clamping after applying glue. It would look something like an rectangular feeding tray with both side ends panels removed.
Yes, that’s a great idea. Thanks!
Just add a little salt and then it won’t slide at all. The salt bites into both boards and keeps it from sliding.
Make a table top with the circles and resin. That would be awesome!!
That’s interesting. Thanks
I thought of that also. 👍🏻🙋🏻♀️
Nice job. The acoustic speaker idea should increease the volume in addition to projecting the sound. I have used offcut plugs as checkers on an oversize/outdoor chessboard and as throwing pieces for cornhole games. The hard disks increase the difficulty.
Yes. Thanks! That’s a good idea.
That's a good idea
When i have round scrap I use them for wheels on cars, pickup trucks, & tractors I use up all my small scrap this way. For the tractors & monster trucks I take the wheels to the band saw and put tread on them. Only thing I purchase is the 1/4 in bolts, washers and nuts for the axel. I put a drop of LOCTITE on the nut so the kids can not take them off. I have fun watching the kids play with them.
Great thanks.
Great design and that’s awesome that you’re getting so many orders for them! They look great! Have you considered making an American Flag version? I think you could pull it off and potentially charge more, depending on how much it adds to labor & materials. If nothing else, it could be a cool follow-up video to this one, which often helps boost your channel.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks. I have considered it because of the shape and look. It would definitely be different/unique.
@@4cubedwoodworks it would sell like hotcakes on a cold morning!!!
Make color and washed out versions blue gray ... And ... and.... if ya make some MAGA w/ skull & Blonde wave hair you could become RICH ❤ ROFL
🎉TRUMP 47🎉
I was just thinking that.
Idea for circles. Cloth check board set. Use the circles as checkers. The hole in the middle can be used for a string or dowel. The cloth checker board to be wrapped around the checkers. Secured with string, strap, velcro.
A little paint some cord and atoll of cloth that you could spray a checker pattern on. Not a bad idea even if you had to make the checkers.
Cool idea. Thanks.
I installed a door deadbolt for a friend who had a small boy. He thought it was great I left him a round bale for his tractor and wagon.
Love it.
Your dry humor and relatability earned my sub. Looking forward to deep diving all your vids. Keep up the good work!
Thank you. I’m just getting started. 😁
When I posted my comment, I see you sell your plans! Great!
Thanks
Build wooden cars and trucks with the circles. Years ago when our son was in grade school the class was supposed to build something to go along with the old west. We worked together on building a covered wagon. Dad welded metal parts, son and I worked on the wooden parts and the canvas covering. Turned out pretty awesome but that might be another idea.
That’s pretty cool. Thanks for the idea.
Yep.@@4cubedwoodworks
Wood circle cutout idea. Put a wooden dowel through them and glue them up in different lengths and put them up for sale as small lathe blanks.
That’s a cool idea!
Sanding is my favorite part! ♥️
Haha. Great! It’s alone time inside your head.
Make wheels from the little circles for toys. I do that often. Happy wood working.
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My dad use to make Toy train sets by the tons. In the cars and engine, the windows are cut with a hole saw art the top. He had piles of them too. Then he started making 3d tick tac toe boards. You cut a square base and put 9 dowel rods in the place of the normal tic tac toe squares. Then stack them 3 high so you will have 27 per game board. Take 14 of them and stain them one color and do the rest natural or a different color. Then to play the game you can score points a lot like connect four. Straight in a row on any level diagonal across any level or straight up one post 3 in a row plus the normal ways times 3 levels. It is a hell a lot more fun than the normal tic tac toe.
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That’s very cool. Thanks for the ideas.
The circles make good snowman buttons for wooden yard art.
That’s an interesting idea, but I live in South Georgia and it snows about every 10 years around here.
@@4cubedwoodworks I live in Bakersfield, CA and it snowed 2 times in the last 50 years. I make yard art snowmen out of wood. I cut the buttons with a hole saw.
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This is the one project I could use. Why didn't I think of that!
Haha. Glad you like it.
You could use those cutoff circles as wheels for kids to make little cars or trucks. Actually made a semi truck and trailer cribbage board in middle school.
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The little circles make great wheels for toy cars n trucks
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Leftover circles: Write the letters TUIT on both sides. Put it in a small jewelry type box. Have a small piece of paper inside that says, you said you would _________ when you got around to it. Well here you go!
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Great video! A suggestion for the cut outs... look into wooden toy food. Those could be little cookies (puddy the hole).
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Use the rounds to make old school Tinkertoys. Sell a bunch of wooden dowels to go in a set with them for kids to build with
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Paint the circles, pastel colors and thread them on a ribbon and hang them as a garland. They look like the old time candy necklaces.
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You could make bottle openers with the circular cutouts by putting a bottle opener insert in them. You just need a couple of forstner bits for the insert and cavity.
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You can use a pinch of table salt instead of brad nails to hold them together to clamp, it really works,
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😮 Never heard of that 🎉
I do segmented bowls and it is a life saver.
😊😊title reminds of friend that saved excess materials from every house he built until he was able to build most of his own home.
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Great tip using poly and sanding it to fill gaps! That’s one I’d not heard of before. I’m going to try that out!
Thanks! It leaves less of a mess than glue.
I would make a magnetic soap holder from the cut out: a piece of dowelling about 25mm thick and 75mm long, screwed into the cut out from the back. Screw a countersunk magnet to the end of the dowel, pointing downwards. The magnets I use have a diameter of 15mm and are 3mm thick. A beer bottle top pressed into the top of a moistened soap bar makes a great "receiver" for the magnet. You can use double-sided tape to attach the holder to the wall in your bathroom or kitchen. Make sure the soap is moist before you press the bottle cap in, otherwise the soap will likely not be caught properly by the bottle cap. You only have to do this moistening exercise once.
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On your circles, I will run a quarter inch carriage bolt thru, then put a large washer and nut on the other side, then tighten the nut on the washer until the head of the bolt is pulled into the other side. Makes a fine, hand screw for certain projects. I use them to make a knock-apart table where I used these to tighten the legs to the table top.
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thanks for sharing...put a dowel rod through them and make stands to hold your work while the finish is drying
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I was contemplating on what to make today, viola, your video popped up. I usually set my phone on my chop saw and bounce the sound off of the fence, this is a great idea, thanks. There's so many things to do with those round left overs, selling them in bundles would make many craters happy, for me i'm going to make drum sanders and sanding wheels, wooden turn knobs, maybe a few games and group some together for a tape dispenser.
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Look up the word VIOLA, it is not an expression!
My grandson is a self taught woodworker. He was asking me for suggestions, and I turned to RUclips and found your channel. I’m now a subscriber. I think your phone box is brilliant! May he get your permission to make these to sell? He would be using inlaid patterns he likes to make, but he would acknowledge your design, of course! Thanks in advance for your time and for your design skills!
Yes absolutely, it’s why I shared it.
I love projects like this. Simple and fun.
I would trade out the hole saw for a nice forstner bit. They produce such a clean hole, no sanding required. My favorites have carbide tips.
That’s great. Thanks for that suggestion. I went with what I have, but you’re right.
Got a great idea for the “pucks” and sooo simple. RUclips search the impossible nail balancing puzzle. You’ll need 6 nails per puzzle.
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You can make knobs for jigs and shop fixtures. You need a small 5"x5" board with the same diameter hole as the round pcs you have, cut out of the center of the board. Next using a 3/8" to 1/2" drill bit, drill 4 holes evenly around the cutout in the board so half of the drill bit bites into wood and the other half of the bit is in the empty area of the cutout. Then place the round of wood into the cutout and drill into it with the corresponding drill bit you used,(3/8 or 1/2") into the holes already drilled out. They are now a guide for the drill bit placement to make each knob. It's a reusable jig for making that size knob. I usually use a bolt washer on top and the bottom of the knob. It's a good way to use them. Or you can glue several together on a long threaded rod. Once dry cut a line through them length-wise about halfway. Don't cut right to the bolt. Then cut a piece of sandpaper to fit around the wood cylinder, and tuck the ends into the slot. If they are tight in the slot great, but if they are loose, cut a piece of wood as a wedge into the slot to hold the ends in. Just cut it a little longer than the cylinder and flush with the sandpaper.
Very nice! I’ll definitely do this. Thanks!
@@4cubedwoodworks ooo, or even, cut in half for handles with a m and t style connection. Maybe a small flourish jigsaw cut away even. Ideas are coming together!
Do you remember tinker toys? That's what came to mind seeing the leftover circles.
I do and yea I thought of that too. Drilling the holes on the edge of the wheels would be difficult 😂
You could taper the circles and make tiny hanging christmas trees. Or put a pin between two of them and make them look like barbells/dumbbells.
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This would make much more sense for the scraps I have than some of the all day cutting, sanding and glue up of one table. People just starting out with woodworking, especially selling their work would find this so much easier and less frustrating that building bigger items. Thanks
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Round blocks with the centers drilled out with forstner bits or into about a 1/4 to 1/2 an inch will make great furniture leg risers, or anti-wobbling table spacers, or planter feet for setting ceramic planters on glass tables...
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You could use the circles to make a giant sized checkers and build a checker table to match.
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You could glue all of the circles together to make a big dowel that you could use as a leg for some furniture. Or could once as a dowel type thing, could use on a lathe or drill type set up and turn to make banisters or any other type things people make with lathes
Or you could glue the circles onto the bottom of boxes or furniture as little legs either one thick or stack to get desired height.
Just some ideas
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So one thing you can use those discs for is legs for a tray that you might put a candle, a plant & a framed photograph. You might also make some wooden beads on jute with a tassel at the end. No one says the beads must be spherical. I think those disks would look great as a beaded garland.
Good idea!
Nevermind I should have read the details. Very cool.
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I recently done a job that left me a load of wooden circles just like yours I glued them together to the lengh of my choice sanded them and used them as legs for some side tables
Cool idea!
Make little hearts out of them. Join them together at the point making a clover coaster. LOL
That’s creative for sure.
Camber the edges of the circles, shove a rigid rod through the center and make table legs, cancel sticks... Use a hollow table and make a lamp. You can stain or paint the discs in different colors or shades for a fun twist.
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A 1-1/2” diameter drum sander, like attaches to a drill, would make sanding the holes easier. Or, you could easily make one from one of the cutouts. Cut a slit to hold the ends of the sandpaper and use a bolt for a shaft. If a slightly larger diameter is needed, just put thin foam-backed sandpaper on the round disk or double up the sandpaper.
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Laminate the circles, make some rolling pins, or use them for tires on wooden toys, or use them as a decorative embellishment for frame, or on a mirror frame, cut them in half and use them for scallop decoration on a frame or moulding, use them in your shop to hold tools on the wall with a screw through them cut them in half and use them for spacers, for tools in a drawer, use the circles for wheels on boxes, in your shop
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For the circles put them all together and put a rod of some kind through them glue them all and make a nice curtain rod would be a nice wood grain in them stained up.
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With the circle scraps, you can make connect 4 games, mini shuffle boards, plinko, pedestals for models, wheels for cars, pulleys....
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If you have a source of wax or heavy grease from cooking, you can put four or five of your wheel cut outs on a stick, like a shiskabab and dip it in a little wax and blow wood shavings from your shaper or jointer or planer to make them prickly like a shrub and then set them ablaze in your wood burning stove or fire place as a fire starter.
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I've made custom drawer knows with my circle cutouts a few times. Being able to see the screw head can make the furniture piece a little industrial.
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Those round wheels work great for toy trucks
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You can do snowman with these pucks.
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For the cut out rounds, you can glue them up, and turn them on a lathe
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Use the circles to make hiking sticks or canes.
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Use the circles to make wheels for wooden toy trucks
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Sand the splinters off the edges of the circles.. Glue the center of the circles, and press them on a dowel of snug fit.. Also gluing the circles together as you stack them along the dowel.. Leave the dowel about 1" out at both ends.. Once clamped and dried, clean off excess glue.. You now have a roller for an outfeed stand for your planter, jointer, table saw, etc.
That’s a nice idea thanks. Hadn’t thought of that.
I use those round bits to go under furniture legs. Drop a hole in big enough for the leg and put some felt under it.
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Those are aweosme proubly really good gift!
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The wheel cutouts can also be used to make luthier clamps for glueing tops and bottoms onto the sides of stringed instruments builds
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I noticed a comment that suggested toy car wheels for your circle cut outs. You could also make them into knobs for jig making, sell them by the dozen pack. Just add the 1/4-20 bolt.
Yes that’s a good idea too.
Make knobs with the circle cutouts
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Awesome........ You have to have a video of how it sounds..... with your video being played.... obviously....
Haha yes. The audio doesn’t pick up well on mics so it’s hard to show the sound difference.
For circle parts, glue them together, stick a sand paper to them and attach to a drill press.
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very nice. pretty relaxed when you build too!!
Thanks. I enjoy it.
Sell the circles as knob blanks... These cellphone acoustic devices are awesome...
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the left over circles you can make wheels and make small derby cars and checkers chips
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Oooo, I love this idea. Well done on the design, sir.
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Use the cubes like mosaic pieces, embed them in epoxy. For counter tops or table tops, or chair seat and back panels. Mix and match colours.
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For the round cutouts you could sell them as little carving blanks for folks who make jewellery or as I’m sure someone will have already mentioned make little handles - use another hole saw and partially take bites out of the rounds (equally spaced) to create dimples and put a threaded insert in the centre and hey presto …..a knob! 😂
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Glue those circles together and turn them. Should look cool.
May have to try this
Wood turners can use the holes to protect projects between live centers.
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you can use the left over round pieces for a cutting board, just fill up an area with the rounds then cut to fill the other areas, then use resin to hold it all together.
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Leave the gaps between the rounds and sell them as trivets.
Great video and great build. I live in Bloomingdale not far from Savannah and I dabble in woodworking. I have the same tablesaw as you. Its great seeing someone locale on the old RUclips. Take xare.
Thanks! I'm actually in Pooler, right down the street from you. :)
I use those "circle cut outs" as spacers in clamps
Thats interesting!
Cool little project
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I use the circles for drawer knobs.
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Not sure if anyone has already said it but that round pieces would make some pretty cool Christmas trees, pumpkins, even carrot shapes by putting them flat onto a board or canvas or something like that.
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Christmas ornaments was the first thing to come to mind. Maybe do something special to decorate them and have your neighbor send one with each toy! The rest of the rounds can be your business cards. If you go to shows they can be handed out. New subscriber, enjoyed the video. Thanks!
Thanks. Great ideas.
You can either take the cut ups and give them to people that say they'll do something when they get around to it, and tell him it's a round to it. Or wheels for wooden toys. Put several together to make a sanding drum. Just off the top of my head. Have fun with it.
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Circles would be perfect for tinker toy sets :)
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@@4cubedwoodworks You are welcome! Your videos are fun! 😊 I hope you have a chance to make some more! It is nice to see others apply what they have learned from utubers - it is very helpful so thank you!
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Great to fire nice little wood starters
That’s what I’ve normally done. 😁
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The little circles can be used for violin building clamps or acoustic guitar building clamps. Add threaded rod, plastic hose and 2 wing nuts.
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Another idea for the circles would be to stack and glue into a cylinder and lathe them into candle stick holders, kind of outdated, but maybe.
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Not outdated at all