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My homemade plastic scoop

If you use plastic construction grade pipe as they use for gas lines it will last a long time.I made a couple that I have been using for years.The only thing that took time was the laying out of the holes to be drilled.I cut the front on an angle and ground the bottom to make an edge that would penetrate the sand easy.What makes it nice is you just run the scoop over the detector head.No metal=less work.The hand scoop, just cut a slot the size of your hand and cement a piece 1/2" tubing for the handle on top.For the back end I cemented clear plexi-glass and drilled.Just don't space the holes too far apart.The sand will lay there. Good luck if you build one.They are easy to make.
 
the end grain is way pourus it isnt any oak I have ever seen , in fact it is particle board ..........if it is oak why does the end grain look like a sponge ??? I think you are mistaken .....
 
You can tell alot of thought went into that scoop. My first scoop was the basket that you put into a deep fryer. If your sand is very fine you can get away with that in the dry sand if you don't have to dig to deep. First deep dig and I think that it will probably snap somewhere. Hey everyone has to start somewhere! HH
 
I can see how one might interpret it as particle board, but it has a "solid" look to it to me and I see the side as just wood grain.
 
I'm impressed! Sounds like you think you can determine a type of wood from a photo so let's play a game. I may be new to detecting, but wood is my specialty. I consider myself a woodcrafter. I use exotic wood to make fine furniture. Here are some pictures of smaller items I made using a variety of woods. For fun, lets see if you really know your wood. I will send a pic identifying the types after your keen eye tells me what is what. Here's an extra, the table the paper holder box is on I made out of Red Oak.

Hint- particle board is NOT one of the answers.:nono:
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pic 2
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pic 3
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Good eye cubfan. I just sent a test to "adam in cal", to see what he really knows. On pic 3 I used 7 wood types as an experiment to see the wood contrasts. I had just purchased the router set that makes double box joints and I wanted to see what it could do.
 
That's cool Brian, It is a pic before it ever made the water. I wanted proof of what it looked like because I too was sceptical. I was not too sure it would be coming back home after the first use. I honestly have used it on ten hunts and have found every item I've posted with it. Sorry about my return comment. This site is a fun place to be and I will try to keep that in mind before I hit "post". I understand the scepticism, but I am not trying to sell anyone on my scoop. I saw others who recently posted their scoops and I thought I'd jump in. Didn't know it would stir up so much emotion. So my next step is the in use photos. But that will have to wait for my machine to be back in business. Then the final step will probable be the death photo and my confirmation to all that it didn't hold up. Stay tuned. Charlie
 
Honduras Mahogany is a little darker but you score on the mahogany. It is African Mahogany which was used on

the side of the paper holder box,
short side of wine box (pic 1),
long side of wine box c (pic 2).

Looks like you know exotic wood. They are called double box joints. I cut box joints into wood that I had jointed together with a box joint, hence the double part. It is very time consuming and one slip ruins the whole project. The paper box was made in one attempt, but the others took several tries (allot of wasted wood).

Thanks for the impressive comment. I think of my wood projects as art. Nice to know it's approved of.
 
I don't quite understand why reactions to threads like this can sometimes take on lives of their own. Here's how I look at it...

1. Since I hunt water and beaches, I'm obviously skeptical that your scoop works well.

2. I've been proven wrong before and I'll be proven wrong again at some point in the future, therefore who am I to question whether your scoop works or not - I don't use it, haven't seen it work or not work etc...

3. If your scoop doesn't really work and you're just trying to pull people's legs here, what do I really care and who is it really hurting?

4. If it does work for you, I say more power to you for coming up with a very inexpensive means of accomplishing what you want to accomplish.

5. I don't have enough energy to spend arguing with someone over something that really had no affect on me :)
 
I too was surprised at how this thread grew. Now it has taken a new angle (wood). I think it's cool, I so enjoy the conversation.

I like your way of thinking. Having a good attitude may not lengthen your life, but I believe it will make it more pleasant to live. I hope you enjoy your day.
 
I used the most variety of wood in the box with the lid so here are the different types. This was the first box I made and wanted to test the contrast between the woods and how an inlay would look. Artistically it is too much, but it came in handy for this game.
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more than you would think actually. I happen to be a pessimist by nature (or maybe nurture!) and I've struggled with that my entire life. It was only 5-7 years ago that my life took some turns that I didn't expect and I realized not only how difficult of a person I was to be around, but how unhappy my life was. Changing an ingrown attitude has been an incredibly difficult thing to do and I still struggle with it and will for my whole life I'm sure but here is the key to what I learned...

As a pessimist I always felt I would rather expect the worst out of everything in life so that when good things happened, they would be unexpected and would make me happy. Unfortunately, I never put together the simple conclusion that by always expecting the worst, I never could enjoy the good surprises because I spent 100% of my time waiting for the next bad thing to happen and when it inevitably did happen (because life isn't always full of good things), it just reinforced the fact that pessimism is the right way to live - multiply that by 35 years of living and you can't change that overnight.

So that said, I honestly do really appreciate your response because it shows me that I am changing, if only by baby steps. Oh, and YES, my life is 1000 times happier than it ever has been!!

Take care and good hunting!
 
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