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Profile knife storage

12/29/16       
Wood Dust

Hey all, i'm looking for some ideas to help solve our awful storage dilemma of our profile knives. We must have about 300 profile knives. A lot of which were custom orders and may never be used again. Currently we just have them sitting in drawers. Somewhat grouped by the type of knife. Over the last year I have been trying to have the guys each time they use one, save an off cut of the profile. Then stick it in a box with the knives and the profile of the knife drawn on the outside of the box....this hasn't been working that great either. I'm sure someone else has a clever way they used to help solve this.

Also has anyone went to the extent to some how catolog their knives and profiles?

Thanks every one

12/29/16       #2: Profile knife storage ...
Mark

Best way I've seen is to dado some grooves sized to your knives in some stock as long as your drawers are wide/long, storing them profile up. Another is to build a shallow cabinet to mount on the wall behind you shaper, again using the grooved stock.
I've cataloged my knives via CAD, but a tracing of the stock-not the knives- copied and made to a .pdf file is another good way.
My friend in another shop would run an extra piece all the time and cut it into 6" lengths. He kept these takeaway samples in a pigeon hole cabinet outside his office door for customers and prospects.

12/30/16       #3: Profile knife storage ...
B.H. Davis Member

Our knives are all traced into a profile book with copies in the shop and in the office. Each new profile gets drawn in the book and given a profile number.

The knives are kept in two approx. 30" wide steel drawer cabinets. Each set of knives is slipped into a plastic audio cassette case (ends often cut off) and then set in an organized, cataloged arrangement in the drawers.

We don't have as many sets of knives as many large moulding outfits but we do have around 1500 sets. This system allows us to quickly find any needed set of knives. It also puts all the knives in a very small space as all the sets fit in about ten drawers.

We also have organized plastic drawers full of the grinding templates. These are just in numerical order. This way when we want to see if a customer's wood sample matches any of our knives we can just pull out the needed grinding template and put it right onto the wood sample.

BH Davis

12/30/16       #4: Profile knife storage ...
Russ

Website: http://www.mr-moulding-knives.com

Good Question
I get this question at least once a month, I always give the same answer because it works, and is inexpensive to make.
Take a sheet of mdf or particle board and sheet of masonite.
The idea is taken from the post office boxes 4" x 4" X 8 - 10" deep, place grooves in the mdf or particle board so the masonite can slide in and out of, the masonite is the bottom of each box. Secure the large unit to the wall with good anchor bolts. Mark the letters A, B , C ect across the top, next make the numbers 1,2,3,4, etc. down the sides, many moulding knives and templates can fit in a single PO box.
In your profile drawing book up in the upper corner on each paper mark the paper work where the knives are stored B-6, C-10, D-2 etc.
You can fit hundreds even thousands of knives on the walls of your shop and the masonite makes it easy for them to be taken in and out.
Just a cheap and easy way to store all your moulding knives that anybody can make with a few common items found in most every shop in the industry.
Happy New Year!
Russ @ MR

1/9/17       #5: Profile knife storage ...
Larry

Ours are cataloged, scanned, sorted by primary use and labeled along with the blank size required. The templates are marked and put under the knives in drawers in order of use/size. Drawers have dividers of Masonite. On a separate set of open faced cabinets are wood samples organized the same way with the ends showing the molding #. Side of custom moldings has the date run and the customer. Templates that were CNC'd have their G-code stored by the same #ing system on the server. A log of moldings run is kept by the same # system in our data base and can be searched by any field. One of the fields is special notes relating to the molder setup if it was odd (curved crown.) We only have about 900 sets of knives.

7/7/17       #6: Profile knife storage ...
MarkSindone  Member

Website: http://supercheapselfstorage.com.au/facilities/syd...

Have you tried using a bolts and screws drawer storage? Some of such storage cabinets have longer interior dimensions so you can store longer items like knives. I think some stores even accept customization requests so you can really buy made-to-order cabinets according to the size you need and also how many drawer sets should be built on each row. It could get costly though and requires some time to complete but you can rest assured that all your items would fit just nicely.

7/21/17       #7: Profile knife storage ...
MarkSindone  Member

Website: http://supercheapselfstorage.com.au/facilities/syd...

Have you tried using a bolts and screws drawer storage? Some of such storage cabinets have longer interior dimensions so you can store longer items like knives. I think some stores even accept customization requests so you can really buy made-to-order cabinets according to the size you need and also how many drawer sets should be built on each row. It could get costly though and requires some time to complete but you can rest assured that all your items would fit just nicely.


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