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re: Cutoffs
I can relate!
Though you do models and can use small bits, I don't, but I still save most anything over 3" in length (with the grain).
I have a lot of sturdy small boxes, about 14"x10"x10". I keep same-species wood in each box if it will fit, Some woods (namely walnut), I have a box for < 1/4", 1/4" to 1/2", 1/2" to 3/4", etc.
Having them separated by species makes it easy to find the small bits that can be used in a project.
Exotics are all more or less kept together, but for the ones I don't recognize, I'll write in pencil the species.
Longer thin scraps are stored on a shelf, bigger scraps are stored in 55-gallon plastic barrels, separated by species.
It is OCD and getting out of hand, but at the start of every heating season I'll cull out wood for the stove.
Though you do models and can use small bits, I don't, but I still save most anything over 3" in length (with the grain).
I have a lot of sturdy small boxes, about 14"x10"x10". I keep same-species wood in each box if it will fit, Some woods (namely walnut), I have a box for < 1/4", 1/4" to 1/2", 1/2" to 3/4", etc.
Having them separated by species makes it easy to find the small bits that can be used in a project.
Exotics are all more or less kept together, but for the ones I don't recognize, I'll write in pencil the species.
Longer thin scraps are stored on a shelf, bigger scraps are stored in 55-gallon plastic barrels, separated by species.
It is OCD and getting out of hand, but at the start of every heating season I'll cull out wood for the stove.
