Brown Paper Bags

[Sonny Kemp]

Where does everybody get brown paper bags?All my local grocery stores use plastic and what I see on line are not big enough to fit a 16 x 5 or 6 bowl into.Guess I can put a couple together if needed.

[CHARLES D Richards]

Sonny,
I use the leaf/yard clipping paper bags from big box stores or Sams for big bowls

[Adam Petersen]

I use the leaf bags too. In fact, they are huge, much bigger than most anything I make so I will cut multiple "bags" out of one and tape the ends shut. Most are two ply too, so I suppose you could pull the liner out and double your bags too, though I haven't tried that.

[Sonny Kemp]

Charles Ive looked everywhere but there and Ive got a Lowes within 6 miles that has them.Hope I don't get no dumber.Thank You

[Steve Doerr]

Sonny, I guess I'm lucky, we still have one grocery store that you can pick either paper or plastic. So naturally, I will take the paper. I keep a good stock on hand for when I need them.

[Tim Passmore]

I just wrap mine (for drying) in old newspapers-----I've had minimal issues with cracking.

[Reed Gray]

The paper acts as a slow venting or absorbing of the water in the green bowls. Sponge maybe. So, you can take your bowl and put it in plastic bags, but use some thing else to absorb the excess water. If you don't absorb that water, then that is when you get rotting and/or mold. You can use news paper, dry wood shavings, or even brown bags to absorb, then change the 'sponges' out every day or so. Heck, you probably could use sponges. One source of paper bags can be seed/feed stores or if you have friends that feed the birds. Most of those bags are paper.

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[Neal DaMommio]

Wal-Mart has them for 35 bucks for 400 with free shipping.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/General-Supply-Duro-Paper-Bag-SK1675-1-6-Natural-75-Paper-Grocery-Bags-BAGSK.../41135259#about-item

[Scott Synnott]

I get mine from Trader Joe's grocery.

[David Delo]

Everyone's shop environment is different so what works in one location might and probably doesn't work in another. I gave up the paper bags scenario after losing a couple blanks. Too easy to forget changing bags every 2 day 4 hours after completing 3 back-flips and 7 hail marys. I just anchorseal inside and out and put them on the lower level wire rack and forget about them for a year. Never lost one doing this but then your mileage my vary.

[Leo Van Der Loo]

Our grocery store uses Paper bags, the liqueur store also uses paper bags, but mine came mostly from the KFC outlet, and have been used over and over.

As they will absorb the moisture that’s in the inside of the bag’s air, and then the moisture that’s in the paper bag, is absorbed by the air on the outside of the bag, it is ongoing in a slow system of drying till the inside and outside air of the bag is equal.

When stuff is added into the bag, it will lay or sit against the wood and the air can not wick the moisture away, thereby creating a damp condition that will be right for mildew growth.

A sponge can take up a lot of water if you squeeze it while in the water, and then release it, just have it sit somewhere, it won’t absorb much of anything.

A bowl sitting in a brown paper drying does not need daily attention, just in the first week or two have a look to see if there might be mildew growth, if so. wipe the bowl dry and place the piece it in a dry paper bag.

I have used newspaper sheets, for bowls that were too large for any bags I had, but found that this paper did not work well or like the craft paper bags. so unless I could not get or use craft paper, that’s all I ever used.

Oh ja, people live mostly in houses and have similar if not identical conditions, so a cool place in the house with no draft or heat is a good place to set your bags, worked for me for many years perfectly.

[Mel Fulks]

For years around here every time we bought a case of beer ....it had to be covered by a nice clean new unfolded brown paper bag before leaving the store. Don't know if it was strange custom,or actual law.

[Tom Wilson66]

I just get a roll of kraft paper from the box store, and cut off enough to cover the bowl. It is the same as the paper in the paper bags, and easy to get. A full roll will last a long time.

[Bob Bouis]

A cardboard box with the lid folded closed (i.e., with a small opening at the top) works as well.

[Bill Bulloch]

I get them at Ingles grocery store. They use the plastic bags, but have paper too. You just have to ask.

[Don McClure]

No one has mentioned 50 lb. seed bags...Many are triple layers, so I remove one or 2 layers. Some bags may have a plasticized layer you need to watch out for and remove...These seed or feed bags are large and can hold the big bowls.

[John K Jordan]

I just get a roll of kraft paper from the box store, and cut off enough to cover the bowl. It is the same as the paper in the paper bags, and easy to get. A full roll will last a long time.

+1 on the Kraft paper. Useful for wrapping turnings, packing things, clean work surface. Stays nicely compact in a roll instead of a loose stack of bags. If used a lot it would be easy to make a dispenser with a cutoff blade - I made one like that from a sharpened piece of angle iron.

JKJ

[Bill Jobe]

My local Walmart has a stack of them in the dairy section for ice cream and such.
I picked up a handful one day and when I checked out I asked how much they were....that I was using them at home. The clerk said, " Well, I don't really know. I quess you can have some...they have no price on.them".
Probably not something you could do regularly, but once in a while maybe. Depends on the clerk/salesperson you get.
I've had one if those lawn bags get me down and pin me. Had to wait for help to come along.

[Thomas Canfield]

Deer corn paper bags work well for large pieces or multiple small pieces to dry. I have also picked up some bags at local food pantry that were used to ship 30# or more of 1 and 2# rice. Both types of bags are multi layer paper and long enough to allow for folding top.

[robert baccus]

Wax them like David relates, and forget all the voodoo steps. It's foolproof, quick and does not rely on old goat's memories. (like mine.)

[Ricc Havens]

Where does everybody get brown paper bags?All my local grocery stores use plastic and what I see on line are not big enough to fit a 16 x 5 or 6 bowl into.Guess I can put a couple together if needed.

Sonny, ask at your local grocery store. My local store uses plastic bags too. But, they have paper bags under the counter for people who don't like plastic and ask for paper.

[paul cottingham]

We stick bowls in plastic boxes with shavings in them. Works for us. But we are just beginners, and maybe we are just lucky.
my shop is in my basement as well, which is climate controlled with a heat pump.

[david privett]

I use 50 lbs. feed sacks , I have had luck even with the woven plastic mesh type filled with shavings.

[Steve Arnold]

Costco sells brown paper bags in a variety of sizes.

[Bob Bouis]

Wax them like David relates, and forget all the voodoo steps. It's foolproof, quick and does not rely on old goat's memories. (like mine.)

Wax is good for roughouts you plan to re-turn. For once-turned green bowls you're going to come back and sand after they dry, it's no fun.