Little things - Woodworking Talk

**Daren** · 09-22-2009, 10:59 AM

I was just piddling in the shop Sunday and made a few things from scrap I had laying around to kill some time. I saw a set of machined aluminum dominoes at a buddies house and got to wondering if it would be any fun to make some wood ones. It was...but it did take longer than I thought. I had a couple short strips of cherry sapwood in the corner I had ripped of a board and saved for "something", I guess that something was dominoes. I drilled the pips and shoved my woodburner tip in the holes to blacken them. While I was messing with that I decided to make some (oversized for fun) hard maple dice too. The dominoes needed a box of course so I made one out of a little scrap of sycamore (it has no finish on it in the pictures, never got around to that yet).

**Daren** · 09-22-2009, 11:01 AM

And lastly a friend gave me a really good smelling candle so I spun out a holder for it real quick from cedar to match the table it is on. Hey, I used up a few scraps and killed a rainy Sunday afternoon

Allthumbs27 · 09-22-2009, 11:40 AM

Those dice look loaded. That cedar candle holder is awesome. Love the swirl in the grain

cabinetman · 09-22-2009, 12:36 PM

Nice work Daren. Innovative use of scraps. Here is another idea someone had for scraps. Craftsmanship sells.

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woodnthings · 09-22-2009, 12:40 PM

Maybe the price would drop by $1.00?

bill

phinds · 09-22-2009, 02:18 PM

beautiful candleholder & that quartersawn sycamore really makes the plain box stand out.

dominic16 · 09-22-2009, 04:56 PM

Daren love it. great job man. i really like the dice. for the dominos did you use the rockler domino jig. wondering on how it is. anyways love the dominos with a very nice lookn box. keep it coming man.

**Daren** · 09-22-2009, 05:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dominic16

for the dominos did you use the rockler domino jig.

Didn't know they even made such a thing...I just used a small metal rule for a straight edge and to measure layout of the dots, center punched them with a finish nail and drill/burned them. (same high tech method for the dice)

Chad · 09-22-2009, 08:18 PM

Very cool, nice scraps. I think the candle holder and the box are my favs.

**Leo G** · 09-22-2009, 11:58 PM

Love the sycamore. Made a cane for my Dad out of it.

So, do you play domino's, or are they just ornamental?

**Daren** · 09-23-2009, 09:10 AM

I know a couple of the different game rules and have played in the past, I am giving these to my brother.

Ella Menneau P. · 09-26-2009, 09:54 AM

Daren, the dominoes look great! I had been thinking of making a Mah Jong set (it's a pretty popular game down here in Dixie) until I realized how many tiles one would have to make--152 for one set. I simply don't have that long an attention span!!!