DIY Scrap Wood Earrings | HW|Designs

With a mountain of oddly shaped scraps, I decided to start testing out some fun, smaller ideas that could be great as gifts. These earrings came to mind on a whim of wanting to spend some time turning.
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**Transcript of Voice Over
How to make, or how I made, these scrap wood earrings.
Let’s get into it.
I started by collecting a pile of scraps ranging from walnut, to cherry, to maple, to rubber wood.
Then used the cross cut sled to cut thin slivers from each
First person to guess correctly what project this laminated piece came from gets a new HW|D shop shirt on me :)
Once I had a decent pile of slivers, I laid out a fun random pattern,
Then, glued the stack together.
After it cured, I used the bandsaw to cut all the edges flush
Pretty cool
Then, I cut the blank in half to get closer to a square blank, AND to give myself a spare in case the lathe and cutter don’t get along later. Good thing too.
I found the center on either side and began rounding the cylinder.
Once I got to a dimension I fancied, I sanded it down.
Then cut the wobbly ends down
For the other earring, I stuck with just walnut, wanting to try out adding a little shine to the piece.
After getting the cylinder to size, I used a parting tool to cut a few small recesses
Then, filled them with super glue, before laying in some gold leaf.
I used accelerator to get them to stick
Then, sanded down the excess.
With both earring shaped done, I used the drill press to cut a slight recess for the earring pin (sets of which I picked up on amazon).
Then used super glue to place them
I used an orbital sander to tidy up the end grain.
Then applied some tung oil before deciding I didn’t like the ambering and switched to a semi gloss poly instead.
And that’s a wrap.

[@steveferguson1232]

Never throw your scrap wood away. You can always use it. Really cool. Gonna have to try this for my wife

[@HonestWorkDesigns]

Preach, Steve! I’m such a hoarder haha - and you should! They’re super easy and come out so cute!

[@davidcraemer8227]

Looking Good.

[@HonestWorkDesigns]

Thanks David!

[@centeringdowels-argentina]

beautiful. muy beautiful !!

[@hmsiegel79]

Very chic! Great job!

[@HonestWorkDesigns]

Thanks so much, Harlan! 🙌🏻

[@natalyddane]

love the music! these are so lovely and i am so hype for the candle stick holders 😍

[@HonestWorkDesigns]

Thanks babes! 😘😘

[@cabman86]

Awesome! My wife makes jewelry and I make her displays. I may have to go through my scrap now.

[@cabman86]

You are both pretty and talented too.

[@HonestWorkDesigns]

Thanks, Roger!

[@SSRT_JubyDuby8742]

Really pretty, excellent job! 😎🎙🪚✅

[@HonestWorkDesigns]

Thanks, Jules! 🙌🏻 getting all girly for a few mins haha

[@donnah5378]

Nice 👍🏾

[@TimsBitsnPieces]

Lovely looking earings.. the scrap is from the "L" shaped bartop or the round disk with HWD at the start of Making it in Congo .... ~;0)

[@jrhenry24]

I like the music

[@HonestWorkDesigns]

🙏🏼

[@NotThatJuicebox]

Looks great! Is the scrap from the "Ply-Spangled" Challenge Coin Display?

[@HonestWorkDesigns]

Thanks so much! And unfortunately no, but good guess though! Pretty close!

[@patrickolgado8363]

gave me wood, love your shop setup

[@cerberus2881]

It was a cutting board! I know I didn't win the shirt. Lol

[@HonestWorkDesigns]

Haha! The shirt is still on the table, but it wasn’t a cutting board per se…