Pen Blank Storage

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NC Wood Art

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OK guys how is everyone storing their blanks in any type of organized manner. My system is not working out to good of just stacking up boxes & hoping I remember what everything is later. I am getting better now & marking everything with label & cost paid & rubber banding them together if under 12 pieces. I have over 45 different burls & exotic woods & I need to be able to find them quicker. Has anyone designed a storage method short of the open shelving with plastic bins or anything? Would love to hear how everyone else is maintaining their blanks. FYI I use a 7 Drawer roll around cart for all my pen kits & bushing so that is working out sweet!
 
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GaTurner83

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I bundle mine with masking tape and mark them by type of wood.Then they go on a shelf organized from A-Z.Seems to be working pretty good for me so far.All my pen kits get hung on peg board and organized.
 
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I put mine in small flat rate boxes with what they are written on the boxes. Then I put the small flat rate boxes into a medium flat rate box kind of like a pen blank file. Just pull out the box you want.
 

Justturnin

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I have several plastic shoe box style boxes from the dollar store. I place some blue tape and write what they are. I have boxes of Maple, Oak, Hickory but then I have boxes of Light woods, Med Woods and Dark wood for the species that wont fill a box on their own.
 

KBs Pensnmore

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I use Plastic containers with a label written in sharpie, about a Gallon in US lingo, and they are stacked 4 high in a racking system that I made so that if the one I want is on the bottom I have only remove 3 boxes to get to the one I want. They are all blanked to about 3/4 X 6. By the way I have about 90+ different timbers.
Kryn
 

StephenM

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I have 2 of them under my bench (didn't mount the wheels). Then I put the blanks in smaller disposable tupperware containers and mark the containers. Each drawer will hold 4 tupperware containters. If I have a lot of one kind of blank, they get a whole drawer with no tupperware.
 
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