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So I was trying to pick up and organize a little since I've got such a mess and I'm starting to get a collection of wood. I decided it would probably be best to sticker my sets and have them somewhat organized. So I cleaned off a shelf and stacked em up. I was wondering how does everyone else store their wood? Show me your stash!

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Sometime I de-sticker some piles again for moving and space reasons...depends how old, dry, wet, what weather and so on....

That is heaven! I could just live in your wood locker! My little modest pile is embarrassing, but I'm working on it doubt I'll ever get to where you are though.

The good stuff gets stickered on a shelf, the "meh" stuff gets stuffed in a cabinet.

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The first guy that posted a reply has more tonewood than I would ever be able to use in a lifetime. You're right, that is my kind of heaven. I thought I was a wood hoarder.

Sticker for a while (up to a year, sort of depends on what the wood is) and then stack in a room with fairly constant humidity and temp.

What can you do with so much wood? You should start a tonewood supply company.

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it´s amazing, but i think Herr is on a wood sawing spree and just can´t help but to keep piling up... (j/k!)

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if that were my locker I'd replace the door with a set of pearly gates and once I went in you would never see me again.

Where do find the time to take pictures, Alex?

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For anyone else who stickers your wood, do you have any sort of sytem for keeping sets getting mixed up with other sets? Like spruce for instance they all look very similar, what is your system for keeping the two halves from getting mixed up with others?

I write on my wood so I know which piece goes with each other

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thats what I did. I didnt know if there was some clever technique that you fancy luthiers use. I write the month and year on it and if I have two sets with the same month/year i write set1 or set2. Its no dewey decimal system but I guess itll work.

So anyone else gonna share pics of your wood lockers?? I like seeing people's collections. Its like seeing fine art

I stack everything flat with 20 lb on top with all species together and def marked in pairs.

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Here's an older picture of my wood storage area.

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Here's my newbie offering to the collection. Definitely still a work in progress, but I'm loving every minute of it!

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Here's a little rack I made from scraps to hold around a dozen tops. Gotta get around to making one for the backs and sides. I wanted something to hang on the wall, as my little work space inside is about 1.7m x 2.2m....For now the rest is stacked on top

Right, pictures! It's the old house, so it's all moved and looks more impressive now that it's on three Ikea shelves (and desirous of a few more, if I'm honest) and (for the big boards) outdoors in the unheated shop, but you can get the gist. As for keeping sets together, write on them (month and year I get them in) for everything, and just make sure you stack and re-stack carefully. Not that hard.

Outdoor boards. Below the bench = pomelle bubinga, african mahogany, spanish cedar. Above the bench = smaller stuff and 1" and 1.5" honduran mahogany boards. Above the door = more african mahogany.


Indoor stash. Acoustic back/side sets, couple of billets, bunch of fingerboards:


Tops, some maple:


Bracewood, lots of it. Underneath (hidden) are blocks of black limba, honduran mahogany.


Not pictured: 6 boards of (white) Limba, several tops, resawn claro walnut back/side sets, bunch more fingerboards and several rosewood billets for necks.

I don't sticker anything unless it is wet, or I intend to use it within the next few months. All of my wood is stacked on a plastic shelving unit from Home Depot. Also, all of my wood is in an unheated garage with no AC in the summer. My wood truly is seasoning. Storing everything in a 45%RH, climate controlled environment is great when you are preparing it to use, but for some reason it is stuck in my head that the wood should be exposed to the temperature swings of summer to winter, which, where I live in the north east, can range from 9*F where it was last week, to 95* F in the summer.

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how do you know which sets you will use?? If someone picks a piece from your outdoor stash what's the amount of time you let it settle inside before you use it? Just hang your clothes in the garage and move the tone woods into the closet, I'm sure your wife won't mind.....

So does your rule mean it needs to be stickered according to thickness? If its 1" thick it's stickered a year, 1/2" is 6 months, and so on, regardless of length and width??

I'll be keeping mine under my mattress from now on just to be sure none of those new Chinese guitar building factories get their hand on it.

I tell those bastages what they are going to use. That's how I know.

Actually, since my waiting list is over a year long, It is pretty easy to let people pick the wood and then sticker it. I only had an issue with the giveaway guitar, since I shoe horned that into my schedule. But, I stickered that wood with a fan blowing on it to make sure it was good and dry. It is.

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