23 IMPRESSIVE Scrap Wood Projects you can SELL [box o scrap challenge winners!]

we mailed over 40 boxes of scrap Lumber to Makers all across the country with one challenge in mind build the most impressive thing you can out of our scrap Lumber and boy did we get some impressive projects by the end of this video we're going to pick a winner who's going to get a $300 gift card of the Home Improvement store their choice and bragging rights forever and ever is truly breathtaking you don't want to miss any of the projects but this year's challenge was a little bit different because we were not the ones judging so let's go through all the projects let us know down in the comments what your favorite is and we we see who wins this year I'm excited all right boxo scrap Challenge number three let's get into it made the most impressive project win okay first up lothario Kelly so here's his before picture so here's what his box of scrap looked like it looks like you got a little bit of Walnut but mostly Maple and some cherry strips from our cutting boards yeah and a lot of the C offs so see the layered cut offs those are the ends of our cutting board so once I trim them to length we still have some pretty nice um segments that are glued up so this will be interesting because a lot of times people will use these C off strips to make really cool patterns not always some people don't want to use them they throw them out but a lot of times we'll see some really cool patterns so I'm curious to see what he did with this okay you want to see lothario project yes yes yes oh my gosh isn't that crazy it's it's like a little mini baby grandfather clock so when I first saw this it was in the park and I thought it was like full size I saw the first picture when the emo came in and I thought I was like oh what did you take a picture of something downtown for and then I realized I was like oh it's a zoomed in photo so Props to letharia for taking a breathtaking photo that I thought was a real building at first glance this would do yeah if you posted this this is great staging the lighting is awesome if you were trying to sell this this is a really good way to Stage it and take pictures but this is gorgeous um so it's an actual working clock it looks like you put in a clock kit in there and um which is totally fine theot the goal is to highlight the scrap you don't you can add things to it so he's not disqualified because he added a clock no not at all um he did accentuate the beauty of the scrap Woods he look he little he made little shingles yeah Isn't that cool legit shingles on this thing this is really cool lario how creative we have never had anybody submit a clock before this is awesome yeah I love it all right our next contestant is Dawson Miller Dawson Miller started off with guess what some cherry and some Maple and a couple of cut offs from The Cutting Boards there's usually more in the box so I think this is just what he used for his project because generally the boxes have way more than uh just what's pictured here and I do have some notes um from Dawson but I'll read them afterwards oh fun Isn't that cool yeah so it's like um like wall hangings frames I'm just going to read his notes okay okay okay okay dawon Miller I got some cutting board C offs and a bunch of Cherry in my box of scraps I decided to make a vision sloto board that checks I got it vision board perfect okay along with a shelf for decorations and photos I ended up using The Cutting Board cut offs as framework for the photos and found a bunch of items and photos around the house to show what it could look like once decorated I believe both of these items could look great in an entry way bedroom Etc and could be hung up or leaned against a wall as I have done here this was very fun and I'm grateful for the opportunity to share my craft and skills with other makers I hope you guys continue to make great content for us so we can continue to grow awesome um I love the vision board because if you know anything about us we're all about goals and goal setting and making milestones and all that sort of stuff so I really like that that's awesome I'm really glad he told us and he included the picture of the back of the picture frames because when I first saw this come in I didn't notice that he built the picture frames out of The Cutting Board cuto off so um guys thank you for those of you that uh send us like text with your submissions cuz uh a lot of times we just see pictures and that's great but sometimes the story really sells it so um thank you for including details with your with your stuff because sometimes I just miss stuff yes so great job Dawson oh Benjamin vankirk he entered once again this is his third entry so he won the first year yep last year he entered and had a really cool dog bowl set up but this year he started with uh a couple of Big Blocks so sometimes uh so we have to because of shipping we have to ship the boxes of scrap by weight sometimes you get really big hearty chunks so he's got a really big chunk of Maple and a really big chunk of cherry and then some other Maple uh slats in there too so um man I'm excited we'll see what he does what did he do ooh lamination bent lamination look at that and look at the carving look at the detail he had to yeah he had to have done that by hand that is beautiful yeah isn't that great w and it's like coming out of the block of cherry okay so neat he also has a video he does so he wrote us a note let me read this uh first but he also has a YouTube channel yes please go subscribe to his channel he makes great fun content so you read the thing and I'll overlay some clips from the video okay perfect perfect this project was a challenge because I had never tried Bentwood lamination before much less wood carving the project I intended to make was a pendant light inspired by a hurricane after many mistakes and struggles that didn't work out I quickly had to Pivot and make a new project this is a flower growing out of a piece of cracked wood just like a beautiful flower can grow from a sidewalk crack this project is very symbolic of the entire building process I went through making something failing and persevering in the end to create something beautiful from scraps of wood that's awesome I love that you guys have to go watch his video he tells a really great story thank you for your entry this year Benjamin vankirk if you are trying to sell what you make and you want to sell more of it you want to make more money join the stud stack go to stud stack.net and join we've got an amazing group of makers in there that are all running businesses helping each other out it's it's a truly incredible Community we just had our first meet up live and in person and it was so much fun to see everybody but I have an announcement the price of the stud stack is about to double it's not going to double for the existing members but for any new signups we're about to raise the price we're going to take a little bit of our own advice and raise the price because the quality of our work went up we've made a lot more changes there's a lot lot more value in the group and the price needs to reflect that so this is your last chance before the price increase if you want to jump in you'll be locked into your price forever but otherwise price is about to go up I cannot wait to see you in the stud stock and help you grow your business all right Richard POG okay so all right what did Richard do o okay we got a lot of projects here so we got two what looks like two jewelry stands yeah I think so cuz there's hooks on the bottom so that looks like where you could like hang bracelets from or necklaces or whatever send us any notes um no I do not have notes from him but Richard you got to send us notes send us a story next time but these are beautiful man I love the Curves in it on that one on the left that's beautiful it looks like we have a trivet too yeah a trivet and then some coasters with the pattern from The Cutting Board cut off love I love seeing how people use The Cutting Board cut offs those are so creative cuz you've already got the pattern and it's like what do you do then with the pattern already in the the lumber cuz you can't really I mean you can break it apart but like then you just have like little squares to work with but I love the Walnut it looks very luxurious and very um like formal and fancy I like it yeah I do like it awesome very impressive Richard very impressive all right Matthew Hamilton okay first off Matthew gets bonus points for his display of his before picture even even the display is Artsy yes um Matthew is another uh repeat entry so excited to see what he made this year yes what oh my gosh he made a robot a literal robot look and there's like wires hanging from it oh my gosh okay I've read this you haven't read this read out his read out his notes okay uh Matthew Hamilton I'm excited to participate again for my scrap submission I made a robot who is falling apart into scrap and found a jar of life that's turning him into a human so that he may continue to live hope you all enjoy it I Incorporated wood turning and tried whittling for the first time when making the human hand you can also see uh you can also see it with a little music soundtrack on my Instagram stumped dot by Matt I love look at the little wires I I know the wires were such a good touch oh my gosh guys go give him a follow check out his little uh reel that he made and leave him some positive feedback too this is an very impressive project cool okay so like just to yeah get an idea so it's it's a robot built out of scrap that's trying to come back to life and he's holding his hand over the little pot of light and his hand turns back into a human hand so there's just so much story Incorporated to this this is awesome this is amazing this is an art piece it's literally this is an art piece beautiful wow and the story that goes along with it too man stuff like this um you can really wow somebody at a booth or or an event if you're trying to sell your work so um awesome awesome storytelling Matt y um really really excited for this entry so very impressive very very impressive all right next up Brian Jackson Brian Jackson here we go so Brian got some big chunks of cherry some Maple and what looks like white oak there on the left so he had a little bit of a knot situation we'll see what he does with that ooh very nice kind of like ombre going from like the Cherry to the maple like that big thick cutting board too I know it looks really nice it looks good very impressive so Brian from Jackson Woodworks if you want to go find him and give him a follow I like that very impressive that's a statement piece for sure definitely a statement piece I like how we rounded the edges rather than squared them off I think that looks really really nice yeah well it brings balance because the lines are very harsh and then the curves on the edge yeah very well very well done Brian very nice all right Aaron Grace so a lot of these entries are people that have been participating for multiple years so it's just really cool to see all the people come back hi everybody we're super excited we did recognize we loved seeing your names pop up in the inbox like oh yeah he entered they bought box they bought a box you're number two you're number three yeah so awesome but yeah looks like Aaron started with some Maple some cherry um some big chunks some small strips we'll see what he does with it ooh wow okay okay this is super impressive look at that speaker this is awesome and it actually has like the electronics in it too cuz he sent a picture of the back so you can see that he actually like put speaker Parts into it I like how he did the honeycomb design in the speaker parts that's awesome yeah I love how he used the knot does he have yeah let me oh he did yes yes yes okay um I decided to make these pieces of cherry into a Bluetooth speaker using a Rockler speaker kit after making the Box with awful miters I still need to work on getting better with miters and installing the speakers I made a couple speaker covers out of the White Oak so he did get a little white oak yeah what I decided to be the top of the speaker box had a cool looking defect SL knot that I decided was too awesome to hide agreed I decided to use a cherry cut off and some of the maple to make two bottle openers on the lathe I turned them to two different shapes and finished them with a friction polish awesome bot pictures Bott I feel like we just got pictures of speaker but I'll go back and double check and if not we'll throw them in here but very cool very impressive I that looks great that I would definitely use that speaker I think that's awesome excellent job Aaron wow only seven entries yeah we we mailed out like 40 boxes of scrap you're telling me only seven people participated so here's the crazy part not only did we send out 40 boxes we only had like 402 boxes to send and we sold out within 2 and 1 half hours of the video dropping where we announced the third competition so liter so literally you're the chances of winning are like one and seven right now yeah so all you had to do was submit an entry and your already way better chances than everybody else yep oh my gosh so the seven of you have a really really good chance um so we'll see who wins we also have some box of scrap right now if you want to grab a box right now and hang on to it until the next time we do the contest that works too we just count submissions as they come in so as long as you use a box of scrap that comes from us you're entered to win in the contest so if you want a chance to win the prize next time then go ahead and buy a box now and just hold on to it for your entry next time and make sure to subscribe to our Channel and hit the Bell so that you don't miss the notification of the next competition I know there were a lot of people on Instagram who are like I missed it by 10 minutes I'm super bummed I should have seen the video sooner and they wanted to join but if you hit the Bell you'll know first and foremost when the challenge starts all right now to the hard part which we don't have to do this time we outsourc the judging to the stud stack members that attended the summit we just had our first live and inperson meet up last weekend and that's where the stud stack members got to judge all of these wonderful projects all right everybody it is it's time Jenny get over here all right we are at the stud stack Summit for 2024 everybody say hi all right and we are about to judge the winner of the box of scrap competition so this is a really hard challenge as it is every single year would you guys say would you say it's hard to judge oh my gosh okay well I'm just glad I'm not doing this alone I can pwn it off on these guys um so if you're upset about the decision blame them not me I love it all right so we're going to flip through all the projects and whoever's loudest is going to be the winner so I know it's bright and early but I want everybody to yell and scream and be crazy this is for YouTube not for LinkedIn so yeah all right and the next one [Applause] Wow way to go wowow wow it I think we have a tie we don't remember how loud it was so yeah for now we have a tie so we might have to do this one one more time I think it's between two projects all right so this is for the tiebreaker so we're going to put up the two projects and cheer the loudest for your favorite between the two so [Applause] W I think we have our winner I think we have our winner oh my gosh this was so much fun and so difficult we had to have a tiebreaker this is super fun um Everybody give them a round of applause give everybody a round of applause for all the entries everything looked amazing all right great so well all right so that was really hard to tell who was loudest in the room but we have a winner we do all right so first off in third place we would like to congratulate Ben vankirk W your story was incredible it was very impressive how you were able to pull off that project at the last minute uh despite all of the failures along the way so we just loved the storytelling aspect of it we loved how impressive your final project was even though um it was a last ditch Hail Mary effort to submit an entry but we are super excited and congratulations on third place you have redeemed yourself all right and in second place it is Matthew Hamilton congratulations Matthew Hamilton this was so good this the decision between like first and second place was so so so hard you guys did such an amazing job um what a cool story behind this one too and in first place the winner of the entire third semiannual uh box of scrap challenge is lothario Kelly hey Cong congratulations Tower was amazing this was such a cool project everybody was wowed by it and anyway uh check your email we are going to be contacting you shortly and uh yeah congratulations to you really blew away all of the members here at the stud stack Summit everybody was super impressed and really enjoyed getting to see your project so thank you for doing it and thank you for submitting it man this was so much fun thank you so much for all the participants thank you for uh sending in submissions thank you for pictures thank you for the stories behind your projects that's what really really brings a lot of we do read all the stories that you put in the email about how you built it what your thought process was and everything that goes behind it and if you make videos we showed everybody the videos this morning of your build process so thank you for sending that in it makes it so much more fun to judge um makes it more difficult because you do such a good job but we appreciate it yep one man's trash can become your treasure so that people pay you money for I know right so hopefully this is giving you some inspiration I want you to share this video If you enjoyed this I want you to share this with another maker that you know a lot of times we just need creative uh inspiration and I think that these projects are that definitely that for me and I know that they can be for others out there too so send this to another maker that you know and just let them see the creativity of what you can do with somebody else's trash maybe it just be the inspiration for how they start their next venture so thanks for watching we'll see you on the next one sck to the play ask me do it I S to the to the it ain't nothing to it just who I am I am how do it sck to the sck to the