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scrap storage ideas?

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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
How do people store their scrap? do you keeps some of it, all of it? expensive wood and cheap wood? is there a storage solution available - bin, shelf, box? drowning in it.
 
#2 ·
I keep all of it - in fact, one of my lumber sources was the scrap bin at the local university's wood shop.

I have multiple storage options. wall mounted lumber racks, clear plastic shoe boxes ($1 each) filled with similar size/species scrap pieces on a wall mounted shelf, Two more wall mounted shelves with long skinny pieces, and I just built a rolling scrap sorter bin to hold plywood scraps.
 
#3 ·
I asked this question once and it was pointed out to me that if you are keeping it, its not scrap but rather cut-offs.
Regardless of what you call it, I keep the furniture grade woods - cherry, maple, walnut, and give the pine cutoffs to my daughter & S-I-L for their fire pit.
Made my daughter a pine TV cabinet, used cherry cutoffs for pegs, door knobs & latches. With my box full of cherry, just made my grandson a display rack for his baseball card collection.
So to answer your question, I keep the hard woods, some in boxes, some in a lidded Rubbermaid garbage can & my garden shed is half full of cherry & maple boards left over from projects.
 
#4 ·
I store mine in cutting board form, I just throw everything into a small wooden crate, once it is close to full I make several cutting boards from it. And scrap from cutting board production is now too small to be useful and gets tossed in a small cardboard box for later burning. Pine cut-offs just get tossed.
 
#5 ·
I built a 4'x3' wood storage cart. 1'x4' shelf in the middle for Misc stuff, 1×4 front for vertical storage of lumber, and 1×4 back for sheet goods. On top of the shelf I have 4 or 5 those big sam's club laundry soap buckets for smaller stuff, divided by type(smaller sheets, tiny sticks, larger sticks, Misc stuff like dowels,...)

I found that I collected everything but rarely used scraps. Now I toss scraps into the bucket or storage section. If it's full I toss any new scraps in the trash. With this system I have scraps when I need them but at the same time I'm not overwhelmed by them.

Of the stuff destined for trash I set aside whatever is burnable for my dad.
 
#6 ·
A barrel is where my stuff is kept. I keep all scraps from what ever project I am working on in a 3 1/2 gallon bucket then when done I sort and put what I want to keep in the barrel. You never now when a mistake can be fixed with a scrap piece from the same project.
 
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