Woodworking

I have looked and read all I can find about lumber storage. The conclusion, there is no good way to store lumber in a small shop. You will have to bite the bullet and give up however much space it will take.

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In my efforts to be slick and crafty, I recycled an old workbench into a lumber rack. I am not bragging, nor am I real happy with it, functionally, it functions. I still lost approximately 32 square feet of floor space that I could have really used for something else. The rack is holding hundreds of pounds of oak, cherry, cedar, gum, and a little tiny bit of magnolia. The upper portion of the rack looks like a normal wood rack and under the bench area is where I am keeping my offcuts and odd bits. My neighbors will once again be burning designer firewood as I have weeded out my rejected bowls, defective routing jobs, and botched carvings. I have also painfully sorted out 'good' bits from 'bad', the bad going to the burn pile. Realistically, I cannot use every last tiny bit of wood, I have accepted that, unless it is walnut, purpleheart, zebrawood, or some other exotic, I FIND a way to use all them!