Pallet crafts
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Pallet crafts are crafts and projects which use discarded wooden shipping pallets.
Wooden pallets are often used for shipping products, but when these get old, they are often thrown away. However, there are many ways to recycle old pallets.
Issue 14 of Readymade magazine issued out a MacGyver challenge to find some way to reuse shipping pallets. In the following two issues of the magazine, plans and pictures for winning submissions were shown. Winning submissions included:
One can also find plans online for other craft projects using pallets, such as plans for:
- Composting bins
- Birdhouses
- Sheds[1]
Also, one can read about how people have made various things out of pallets, such as:
- A coffee table
- Guitars
- Bunkers for woodsball, a variant of the sport of paintball
- An ignitable pirate raft, filled to the brim with fireworks and flying the Jolly Roger [citiation?]
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- ReadyMade Magazine
- Readymade: Pallet Bench
- Pallet Compost Bin, from DIY Network
- Pallet Compost Bin, from DIY Network and Home Depot
- Pallet Birdhouses
- Pallet Guitar
- Various Pallet Craft Ideas
- Pallet Art Project
- Pallet Side Tables
- an article about where to find pallet waste
