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General Category => General Scroll Saw Talk => Topic started by: mrsn on January 01, 2011, 05:33:09 pm
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How do all of you store your supply of wood?
I am looking for ideas to make my shop more orginized, and looking around that would be a good place to start.
Thanks for any ideas!
Mrs.N
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When I ordered form Sloan's she told me to keep it in the house not the garage. I have the bigger pieces in a stack on the floor in my office. Seems like the whole house is ending up being "my shop"!!
I also find to keep things flat and out of the way is under the bed (women's point of view ???)
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I built a little shelf system that slid into a nook in my office. Hopefully, I've attached the photo correctly.
Bill
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You mean you are suppose to keep it organized!? :o
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I have OCD.
Also, ADD-HD. It's hard to pay attention, but when I do it's with crystal clarity.
Bill
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Good idea Bill...I have a book shelf in the office...I could rearrange some books and make a spot to put the smaller pieces to keep them organized.
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Here is how handle some of my longer stuff (up to 60" long) it's on wheels.
(http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z299/rapidroger/IMG_0409.jpg)
(http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z299/rapidroger/IMG_0410.jpg)
And then I have several stacks of the smaller material sitting around the shop.
Rog
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I keep most of my long/wide un-planned dryed saw-mill material stored like Rog does above . I stack my BB Plywood underneath the work-bench in my shop which is un-heated un-less I'm going to work in it - then I heat it up . I don't have any moisture problems with my woodworking materials , maybe it depends on the building your working in .........Also my shop is not the neatest for it's a woodworking shop -sawdust everywhere ............
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Mrs.N, I have been trying to find the best way to store my lumber for over 30 years, and I am still trying. Bill I wish my lumber was as neat as yours. I did build a shelf similar to what your pic is for my small plywood, and it works well. I then I built a stationary cabinet (not on wheels) similar to Rogers, but with slots for my larger sheets of plywood, and I store my rough cut lumber on a set of shelves I bought from a hardware store going out of business. I always thought about building a set of racks that hang down from the ceiling to free up some of my wall space, but never have. The one fault I have is I cannot seem to throw any wood away, so my shelves that looked neat when I started, become a mess. I hope this helps you out.
Mark
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Best store flat and in a dry place, my wood turning wood I keep in the back of my work shop and the stuff for scroll work I keep in my work shop, as I cut all my wood my self I keep the bulk stuff in my garden shed, to hell with the garden
Jimbo
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I store planks and such overhead in my garage shop, small pieces destined for the scrollsaw in a box under my planer, odds and ends and cutoffs in between the studs in the garage walls, and wood I am air drying (Monkeypod, Camphor, and Indian Rosewood from local trees) in stacks with stickers in between in my storage shed outside the garage. In other words all over the place!
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Best store flat and in a dry place
I totally agree on this. My Wood is in a rack - kind of sorted. Big boards are leaning at a door (spare part - not in use ;) ), keeping the boards flat and nice.
regards
Torsten
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I'm with Dan! Organization? ::) That's a dirty word! ;D If I can find it that's org, orga, organ, organized! Whew!! :)
When I went looking for a piece of cedar I knew exactly where it was...just took me two days to find it! :) It was right where I left it ;D
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Mine is stored in my shop on racks I built. :)
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I keep my woods stored really organized (at least in my mind), there's some in my shop, some in the garage and some in the hobby area. But I know its one of those three!
Bill
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I've organized my wood two or three times but my problem is I always use it the next day ::) ::) ::)
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Well? I guess I prepare and use. We have lots of hardwood forest in our area; I buy rough cut Oak and poplar, walnut and other local hardwoods by the pallet from the Amish Auction? normally fresh from the saw mill and normally wet and cheep! ($40 $50 pallet?) The wood is normally about 8-12 inches wide from ? - 2 inches thick. 10-16 ft long ( I normally buy the mixed pallets not really paying much attention to the types of wood in it? it varies depending on what the mill is cutting at the time.
Using 2x6 & 3/4 inch bolts... I built Racks 8 foot wide hanging from the trusses in my pole barn and place the wood on those 5 racks with lots of spacers? Stacked about 5 ft deep. It gets HOT up in the top of the pole barn in the summer? I do get a little checking, cupping and splitting? (Those boards get cut up and burned in the wood stove which has a huge appetite during the cold months)
I rotate using wood from the racks depending on how long I have had it? the one I am working out of now has been on the rack about 3 years? and is good and dry? I am going through a lot more wood now that I am working in the shop more and working on our church? especially of the thin stuff now? that I have taken up scrolling? will have to go for a new load soon and be more picky. (So far My roofline in the pole barn is still not sagging)
When I get a project I want to do? I choose a likely looking board and plain it to the desired thickness and use
Like for Christmas ornaments this year? I pulled down a piece about ? thick of red oak about 10 inches wide 16 foot long and planed it down to about ? thick on my plainer? was beautiful! Cut it up into smaller pieces with my chop saw and it lasted most of the month?
I also get slab firewood at the saw mill (cut off?s) Burn a lot! Get it by the trailer load for the fire in the house or shop, Whenever I see walnut, good looking spalting, winge sassafras or any board for that matter that has good looking grain I rescue it from the burn pile and throw it in the stack I have in the barn to dry.
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With me it is a system of three shelves...
1. Plywood, marked by cards between face types, BB/ Oak/ Maple/ etc.
2. Narrower Hardwood boards and a box of off fall/scraps.
3. Wider Hardwood boards, again marked by cards as to type.
Seems to be working so far. Will see how my "major garage re-design" either helps or destroys the system!
~~~GB~~~
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I'm with Dan! Organization? ::) That's a dirty word! ;D If I can find it that's org, orga, organ, organized! Whew!! :)
Heh heh....he said "organ"
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I rearrange & cleaned my wood shop tonight - I got much more space now and will set up 2 more racks - one for "the stuff" and one for scroll saw wood :-)
regards
Torsten
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hmmm...I guess I am not as far behind as I thought I was. I have most of my small "scraps" in a plastic drawer unit. Mostly sorted by thickness. That has been working well for me, so far.
I like the look of the rack that Bill made. I think I am going to make one under my bench. I had been stacking pieces under my bench, but they like to fall over a lo. The rack would help out a lot.
Thanks for sharing all of your ideas!!
MrsN