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What do you do with your scrap wood? Do you throw it in a box or drum? Do you store it anywhere it will fit? I have a 16x16 wooden box on top of 2x4 legs with two shelves in the 2x4s via dadoes. The top of the box stands about 4' tall. It is getting in the way. I am looking to do something else.

What do you do?

eldyfig wrote:What do you do with your scrap wood? Do you throw it in a box or drum? Do you store it anywhere it will fit? I have a 16x16 wooden box on top of 2x4 legs with two shelves in the 2x4s via dadoes. The top of the box stands about 4' tall. It is getting in the way. I am looking to do something else.

What do you do?

Check these out for some ideas.
https://forum.shopsmith.com/viewtopic.php?t=2363
https://forum.shopsmith.com/viewtopic.php?t=2407
https://forum.shopsmith.com/viewtopic.php?t=2393

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Tony,

There are some other threads that show pictures of how some members use buckets and various other methods, but I have knot been able to find them. I was going to add them, but...

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judaspre1982 wrote:Tony here is the thread Tim was speaking of http://www.shopsmith.net/forums/showthr ... 2-----Dave

I see now that the same question was already posted just recently. Thank you very much. I am getting some good ideas for scrap storage.

beeg wrote:And remember to KEEP ALL scraps. DO NOT I repeat do NOT throw ANY scraps out.

To do so wood be sacrilegious!

Tim and Beeg,

I might be convinced if you would post photos of your accumulation of "cutoffs". Do you really walk the talk or is your shop as clean and neat as the dining room before company arrives.

dusty wrote:Tim and Beeg,

I might be convinced if you would post photos of your accumulation of "cutoffs". Do you really walk the talk or is your shop as clean and neat as the dining room before company arrives.

We have had this conversation before, dusty. My shop is a disaster. I wood knot show you pictures if I had them. I do have one saving grace; my father sneaks out scrap for his fireplace, but he never takes the good pieces. BTW, I posted to Beeg thinking he was joking. Do you think he is serious?

Here is my new epiphany .... No matter how one stores his cut offs and scraps - and there are some pretty inventive methods - they will always increase to the point of frustration. THAT IS THE TIME TO THROW SOME OUT INTO THE TRASH!

Now the realization that the one you just threw out is the one you need. Gotta grin and bear it!!!! Just try to keep a manageable assortment, but not too many of one kind. Define kind? - Can't! Good luck!

Some years ago, my dad had a cabinet shop. It was a two man operation in the Georgetown area of Seattle. Mostly they made store fixtures, i.e., display cabinets for Nordstroms and the like, but they did a few residential jobs, and I remember one occasion that he made the wood parts of a large quantity of Murphy Beds that were going into a new building for assisted living. I digress. What I am getting at is this: He had a lot of scrap. He had it stacked in corners, in 55 gal drums, in his office, in the dust collector room. There was a lot of it. Oops, I already said that, did I knot? Due to circumstances, he had to close the shop. He moved all of that "good" scrap home and stored it "outside" in an old chicken coupe. Years went by and he eventually burned it all, except for the very few pieces that we found a use for. He had wanted me to take it all home after I built my house, but I did knot have the room for it (except for a few "good" pieces)!