Treasure hunting

On a rotating basis, the various neighborhoods in Brisbane have periods of about a week when they pile junk-ish things on the kerb. People walking or driving by can stop, sift through, and take anything that appeals. And about a week later, the garbage collectors take the rest.



Sunday, on the way home from church I grabbed a few pieces of wood (including a 4" x 4" beam that would make an excellent workbench leg!), three wooden drawers (for workshop storage, once I build a frame around them), and a wooden shelf. Oh! And a metal three-level rack, which is intended to hold a phonograph player and stereo, with the bottom having vertical dividers for your LPs. But I'm using it to hold "in progress" wood, under the eaves.




Today, went back and got a mostly-empty old-timey wooden radio cabinet. It's kinda like the photos, above -- except the radio components, and knobs, had been removed. The only electronics remaining was the somewhat torn speaker, a transformer on the underside of the speaker, and an audio cable coming from them. I'll use this thing as a speaker cabinet for my guitar amps, just for the novelty value -- either with the speaker repaired (I'll give it a try), or with a different speaker.




I also picked up a pair of portable (folding!) plastic sawhorses. They're intact, except for some overspray on the top from a black spray paint can. Also, one of the locking devices on the side of one of the sawhorses is missing -- but I can just use a stout piece of cord, tied as a loop, to keep the legs from splaying.


The sawhorses look pretty much like this, except that the blue bits in the photo are actually yellow.

Nothing fancy. But, not bad, for **free**!!! In woodworking, it's good to have a few extra sawhorses.


--GG