Welcome to Wood Talk, for Woodworkers by Woodworkers.

Now here are three guys who, if combined, would make one hell of a woodworker.

Mark, Matt, and Shadden.

All right, welcome to Wood Talk Number 219.

It's the Weekend Wood Talk Edition.

February 12, 2015. Is that the right date? Did I get that right?

Sure, yeah. The three day thing is screwing me up here. All right, February 12, 2015. On today's show, we're talking about lumber storage.

That's really it, so let's just get right down to it.

We got a question here from David, David,

Duvid.

In a recent episode of Wood Talk, you agreed that in most cases, tools should be in the same

family and of an, and if an odd tool was acquired, it would be kept separate from the others.

I quite agree. I know not everyone's going to have that opinion, but just weirdos like me.

He says, I quite agree, but when it comes to wood storage, do you do the same thing? Do you store your wood by length, width, species, domestic or exotic color, largest

on the bottom, smallest on the top, or just whatever makes a neat pile.

So we'll answer this question, but we'll also go around and talk a little bit about our own lumber storage setups in our shops

Because we have three very different shops, so it might be interesting to talk about what we do differently

So I'll go first with an answer here. I generally do store my lumber trying to keep

species together and you know the stuff that's on the racks a little bit easier to do. You know, you could stack the like stuff with

with its partners, you finish a project, you have some leftovers, you could put them all together.

Where I have a problem is the bins. The bins on the bottom is where it just is a hodgepodge and everything's thrown

all over the place and strewn about. It's very disorganized. It could certainly be better. But I do try to keep my biggest,

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