My Idea on Sheet Goods Storage

Hello Calgirl, I have been looking at different ways to store sheet goods in my new shop. If you remember you sent me a PDF on shop lighting ( Thankes Again) I went with the T-8s. If your design does in fact keep the ply from warping please let me know and I will copy your design.

-- F.Little

Woodnut,
I’ll let you know about any warping I see, but I have a humidity monitor running and set to 45% because of the high humidity here in Florida.

-- Forget the health food, I need all the preservatives I can get !

This is another interesting way of storing sheet goods. Storage of these is a challenge for any workshop. I keep mine stored in a horizontal fashion like this and have never seen any warping in my sheet goods. So you should be fine. If yours is anything like my sheet good rack, once you get a number of sheets stored there is quite a bit of friction between the sheets, especially when the rack is nearly full. This creates a lot of resistance when you try to drag a sheet from the middle of the stack.

This looks good. Let’s get some plywood in there and start on the miter bench. That will be a nice project to see posted.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

Goog one CG. Very tidy way to store those prescious sheets.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

I like it, I went with the Wood magazine solution which has my boards stored above the plywood sheet bin. It works very well I have about 14 sheets in there right now, and have had no warping issues. I have a pick of it up on my workshop page (well looking at it now the top half). I will get a better picture up when I get back into town.

-- //FC - Round Rock, TX - "Experience is what you get just after you need it"

When it thaws out here in chicagotopialand (1 degree fahrenheit) this morning, I will try to build a panel holder like this one. Saw dust freezes at this temp and become shards-o-dust. Anyway, I like your design, and being from Florida, I know about warpage, (I am) I walk a little crooked from multiple injuries, which explains why my miters are always off.(ha ha) Anyway again Love your idea. Thanks

-- so much wood, so little time. Bradford.

looks like it should work quite well c g . i assume the shop must be comeing along nicely

This’ll do! I saw a slick gizmo in one of the shop mags which looks like a hand truck/appliance dolly that folds flat, easily transports even the heaviest sheets, and even loads them onto your bench for cutting. I’ll look for it. Maybe one of the others here has a link to it. I think it was from Wood mag.

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

How do you overcome the “oh crap I just ran into that long screw & ripped a hole in my side” syndrome?

BTW, I’m thinkin I’ll “borrow” your idea myself. And thanks for the idea!

Perhaps a small rubber ball on the end, or paint-dip the end of the threaded rod.