A little acrylic thingy I made for a bee-keeping friend has turned into a cottage industry for him – I just finished 100 of them, and he already wants 100 more. These are the scraps from them. I can’t throw them away. They have to be made into something. Any brilliant ideas?
You could weed them, put them in a cup and pour in clear resin to make blanks for the lathe (pen, bowls, etc.) like Nick Zammeti does with colored pencils, legoes, crayons, what have you:
That would be awesome, and actually I’ve always wanted a lathe…but it’s just one more of those expanding hobby things that I keep getting sucked into that require the purchase of more tools and additional supplies and the rearranging to make more space, and the finding of more time…
As Dave Barry says, there is a very fine line between “hobby” and “mental illness.”
Well, actually, my day job involves figuring out just that sort of thing. I think, however, that I will refrain from investigating too closely in this case, because I might have a hard time coming up with rationale to exclude my own symptoms from consideration!
Mini ring toss game? Back in the day you could just put a few divets on something and make an ash tray. Perhaps, given the forums verve for coasters, you can epoxy them together to make coaster or layered wall hanging. Necklace would be fun, too.
My original thought was same as already mentioned - put them into a pen blank to turn on a lathe. (that’s what I keep mine for… some day may actually do it…) Now looking at the colored acrylic, what if you made a colorful cylinder with LED in them? you could make stand-offs out of them ! Or a tall enough tube a bud vase. pen/pencil holder. They could be used for “feet” for trivets or plaques… the little lines could be "handles for boxes (to lift the lid - more of a lip )…