Not Sure Where To Ask This...

[Spec Grade]

Where do you guys/gals store your wooden pen blanks?
I have a bunch that a friend gave me, plus quite a few I bought online. Anyway, how do you store them?
These are dry, but not stabilized. Is a plastic bag ok?
How about a cardboard box?
I'm trying to keep them organized, like in one place, but not so much by type of wood. That will come later, once I clean out my basement & make more room for my woodworking hobbies.

Thanks for any directions.

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Spec

 

[skywizzard]

Gee....
I thought everyone stored their blanks and kits in a 100 year old apothecary cabinet.....

 

[hunter-27]

Gee....
I thought everyone stored their blanks and kits in a 100 year old apothecary cabinet.....

That is Just sick and wrong!!!!

 

[skywizzard]

That is Just sick and wrong!!!!

LOL, I am a pharmacist & used to collect all things pharmacy, got 3 of these cabinets about 25 years ago. I used the better ones with sliding glass doors on top to display pharmacy bottles, etc. The others ended up in my shop. My lathe sits on a smaller lower cabinet. All the drawers work great for a shop.

 

[jkeithrussell]

Cardboard boxes work well. Shoe organizers from Home Depot work well also. Plastic storage bins from Wally World. Whatever.

 

[Greg O'Sherwood]

I'd give my left groin muscle for an apothecary cabinet like that!

I've been looking for one at a decent price for years. Library card cabinets are good also.

 

[wdcav1952]

I'd give my left groin muscle for an apothecary cabinet like that!

I've been looking for one at a decent price for years. Library card cabinets are good also.

Heck Greg, I'd give BOTH of your "groin muscles" for an apothecary cabinet like that!!

 

[skywizzard]

Sorry Spec,
I didn't mean to hijack your thread. Your question is a good one. Before I cleaned out the cabinet and started using it for blanks instead of miscellaneous junk, I used the shoe box sized plastic storage boxes with covers. You can get these at Walmart, and similar places. Watch and you can catch them on sale. They are about the right width, it just helps to make some cardboard dividers to help separate the blanks. The boxes are stackable.

Oh yeah, welcome to IAP.

 

[sefali]

USPS medium flat rate priority boxes work great too. Tape up the bottom, and cut the top flaps off. The height is just right for most blanks. They're stackable, you can label them, and they're CHEAP!

 

[RAdams]

I had an old chest of drawers laying around doing nothing. The top drawer is all non wood blanks. Second drawer is wood pen blanks third drawer is kits and parts that didn't make the cut and need gone through. The bottom drawer i keep larger pieces of wood in. I have a little 4 drawer thingy on wheels that i keep all my kits, and some tools and accessories in.

 

[PenPal]

Storing blanks

Lately and because of our terrible for us cold weather i bought two Disk Storage sets of shelves the do it yourself put together in hours type leaving out the special plastic racks and fitting four shelves on that side during assembly. I now have 500 blanks in the Lounge room handily placed for the forthcoming pens with the rest in the workshop so I can cycle when needed and select in comfort. They cost about 20 bucks each in veneered chip board and stand about four feet high by 15 inches. Like grasshoppers every store has them.

Have fun Peter and welcome to decision land, level of importance.

 

[joeatact]

This is another way

http://www.joespens.com/gallery/Shop/woodstorage.jpg

 

[NewLondon88]

Heck Greg, I'd give BOTH of your "groin muscles" for an apothecary cabinet like that!!

Thank you. My coffee just came out of my nose

 

[Jim Smith]

I picked up one of these bench/cabinets to store my blanks. It's heavy duty, made out of metal and holds just over 1000 blanks. The price is right, but you might want to check the shipping costs before you order. I think I paid around $64 shipping to Georgia. Just one other idea.

https://www.surpluscenter.com/item.asp?UID=2009040314013566&catname=&qty=1&item=1-3123

Jim Smith

 

[edman2]

Do a search for "blank storage" and several ideas will pop up for you to browse through.