Hard Wood offcuts needed/question

Hey guys i need to raise my desks a bit, by approximately 10 cm.

i have 1 with drawer units under it and 1 that has 2 legs and a drawer unit.
i was thinking of fabricating some small square pieces about 70mm x70mm x 100mm to raiser above the drawer units and for the legs just making a higher piece and drilling a hole to get it down to 100mm.

Not sure if this is the best way. but i would need some offcuts (hard wood) not sure, maybe some other kind of wood would do, not sure i just thought i’d give hard wood a try see how it handles.

I found some on ebay it’s a box of offcuts. Does anybody have a project that require these and interesting in sharing the cost?

Or maybe somebody has some spare offcuts that roughly match the size?

:smiley: Thought i’d ask here before i do anything.

Thx for reading.

I have purchased a similar box of Iroko off cuts from this seller; no issue with service or product in any way, just wanted to warn that what you get in the box will probably only be a multitude of pieces approx 38-40mm thick.

It was perfect for what I needed for scroll saw projects/ practice, I shared it with a friend who is using her pieces for pyrography practice.

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That is good to hear, and thx for the info, i was thinking i might have to glue them as you can’t really find thick pieces like i need.

I definitely need to practice my woodworking :))

Thought you might be interested to see the content of the box of Iroko off-cuts I got from my purchase.

Just as a guide the piece bottom right was about 160mm by about 120mm; everything I got was about 38-40mm as I said earlier.

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I’m about to start a new project in sapele this weekend, so I should have a fair number of 45x45mm sapele offcuts you can use if you want them.

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awesome, i’ll be in on sunday if you can leave them somewhere with a note, if you don’t need them that is i can glue some pieces together to get the size needed. should be good.

Thank you

Hi mate,

Sorry about this - seems like I slightly jumped the gun on the new woodshop, once it’s up and running I’ll have some sapele offcuts for you

Hey no worries i found a piece that i can use in the scrap pile. :smiley:

How much was it? Looks like a good selection

We paid £45 for the box.

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