Storage for Pen Blanks

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suefox51

suefox51

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Good afternoon gang!
I'm trying to get my small shop organized and looking for ideas on how to store my pen blanks - Right now, I have them in priority mailing boxes, but that is a bit unmanageable - so, does anyone have a "cubby" system, or a box system, or, any type of storage system that works - I want to be able to separate and store by type of wood and be able to label them.

Thanks for any and all ideas:redface:

Sue
 
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I have mine in the cubbies of a half finished secretary desk someone gave me with the best ones lined up in front and the rest in clear plastic lidded bins.

For me it's out of sight, out if mind and I don't want this stuff to get forgotten about.
 
Everyone has some way that meets their needs. I'm not quite so high on the heat end and have a thermostat controlled heater for the winter. So I don't seal mine in up any way, leaving them open so they're easy to see and stored in slide-out cookie sheets like this:

 
76winger said:
Everyone has some way that meets their needs. I'm not quite so high on the heat end and have a thermostat controlled heater for the winter. So I don't seal mine in up any way, leaving them open so they're easy to see and stored in slide-out cookie sheets like this:

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I think I see the pen blank I misplaced. Its right there in the middle right of left, about 3/4 & 7/8 squarely round and 5 ish inches long.

Mine are in postal boxes in the wall cabinets. :biggrin:
 
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I use plastic tubs similar to what Joe uses, they are opaque but they do allow label stickers. I cut my blanks to size while green then drying them (if required) before storing them. I do have 6 holes drilled into the lids to allow breathing so the wood doesn't go moldy. Some containers hold several varieties. Currently running around 200 different varieties of wood.
Hope this helps.
Kryn
 
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My husband built me hanging wall cabinets on three walls of my shop, and I put my blanks in clear plastic tubs, label them with masking tape labels, and store them in the hanging cabinets.
 
I have a very organized system. I have a couple tubs in the living room with blanks. I have a dozen or so on my dresser. Some in the truck. A bag with some in the kitchen. A couple tubs in the shop. Some on a shelf in the shop. Oh yeah a couple boxes in the bedroom that were mailed to me. VERY ORGANIZED.
 
Leviblue said:
76winger said:
Everyone has some way that meets their needs. I'm not quite so high on the heat end and have a thermostat controlled heater for the winter. So I don't seal mine in up any way, leaving them open so they're easy to see and stored in slide-out cookie sheets like this:

Click to expand...

I think I see the pen blank I misplaced. Its right there in the middle right of left, about 3/4 & 7/8 squarely round and 5 ish inches long.

Mine are in postal boxes in the wall cabinets. :biggrin:
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So that's where that one came from, I thought it just grew as an offspring of the others!
 
I use a couple boxes I stole from my wife that she got from Michaels to put her beads in. I did like the system I saw on here before. Someone used old CD/DVD storage boxes that he mounted above his garage door..
 
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This works well but need to build another with more capacity:eek:...looking for an intervention to happen to me soon:wink:
 

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