We've talk a fair amount about storing sanding supplies, there is even a photo album on our Facebook Page where friends posted their storage ideas. So in the next several blog posts, we will be developing ideas for keeping your sanding supplies neat, organized and ready to use.

As I gathered the various sanding sheets, disks and such from around my shop for the above photo, I realized two things: First, I have a much greater variety of sanding supplies than I would have been able to tell, and Second, that they were scattered willy-nilly all over my shop!

Then I realized that those above were not all of it! What about supporting items like gum rubber cleaning sticks, sanding blocks, tack cloths and the like? There are a lot of SKU numbers here! This exersize also showed me that my various sanders were scattered around the shop as well. Maybe I want to store them with the sanding supplies.

I might save some space by ditching the cases, but these tools travel with me at times, and I like keeping the accessories in the cases. So now the image forming in my mind has a interior cabinet for stacking the tools and their cases. But my smallish shop does not really have room for a dedicated sanding storage cabinet on the walls. Hmm, maybe a rolling cabinet? Storage inside for the sanders and pegboard on the outside to stow the various supplies? Seems right, I can roll it out of the way when not needed. Ahh, but with all that in mind, the top seems a logical place for a sanding table! A DOWNDRAFT sanding table!

So I prepared a quick CAD sketch of a 36" x 24" table with the supporting cabinet being paneled in pegboard. The shapes shown under the cabinet are representations of the various disks and sheets I need to store. I can use these to lay out the locations of the supplies. I want to plan all this out before actually building anything to save time, materials and frustration. What I need to work out now is a reasonable container for the disks that can be easily hung from the pegboard and not add too much to each disk's 'footprint'. I have some ideas that I'll work through in the next post.

If you have features you'd like to see, or want to share your storage solutions, we invite your input here on the blog, on our Facebook page, or via Twitter. Let us know what you think! -2Sand.com