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Sure! Recycling good wood is way righteous. Heck, way back when I was in college I was given a few ancient barn boards the dulcimer-making club had left over after everyone had taken their share. The boards were a dingy blackish gray and showed clearly that the barn had been inhabited by livestock for a loooong time. After planing off the weathered outer layers, what was inside was beautiful old oak. Still a bit smelly but not unpleasant. I used mine to make a primitive but usable synthesizer keyboard. (The traditionalist Appalachian dulcimer makers thought that was pretty funny.)
A month or two later I turned half an inch of one fingertip into sliced salami using that same college-owned jointer-planer, but that was another project. My stupidity, justice was served.
So: yeah. Use it and collect full marks for frugality and efficiency.
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