Tablesaw blade storage ideas

[Mike Kees]

How do all you guys store tablesaw blades. Please post pics of storage boxes or solutions that work for you. Thanks,Mike.

[glenn bradley]

I've been through three tablesaws but, am still using this simple fixture.

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[Jim Becker]

I keep the few extras I have in my sanding cabinet on a shelf; in a box if I have it for the particular blade. I don't have a lot of them because I generally use a combination blade for most cuts.

[Jamie Buxton]

A couple of screws driven into the wall near the saw. Each screw holds several blades. It's not like I need to store a bunch of blades. There's usually a combo blade on the saw, and a rip blade hanging on the wall. There's an aluminum-cutting blade I use rarely, and a steel plywood blade with lots of teeth for thin stuff like sawn veneer. That's it.

[Dick Mahany]

I got the inspiration for this one somewhere on the net. It was a fun project and served me well. It went with my Unisaw when I downsized and now regret it. I built it so that it could hold my dado stack blades, but they never made it in to the box for some reason.
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[Mike Kees]

I have ended up with way to many blades. It is a by product of my tablesaw buying addiction. I am constantly buying and selling saws,so now I am trying to thin out my herd. I have two triple chip 80 tooth blades one melamine 80 tooth,one 30 tooth rip, 2-40 toothATB, one 50 tooth combo ,3-60 tooth negative angle mitre saw blades .These are the keepers. I also have 5 thin kerf blades that I will probably sell. I have to finish the process to become a contributor here on SMC and will post my blades on the classified section. I like that cabinet-drawer that you had Dick. I am leaning toward a box of some type, but also like the idea of "sleeves" that would stay on my blades,like record jackets. I will probably combine those two ideas somehow. Thanks for the replies,Mike.

[Yonak Hawkins]

Table saw blades in my shop are stored in film shippers gotten from our local library when they were selling them off several years ago due to not shipping films anymore :

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They're perfect for sending blades off to be sharpened, as well.

[Andrew Pitonyak]

I use a 10" saw blade bag.... note that I do not change blades often and I do not have a large number of blades.

https://www.amazon.com/WoodRiver-10-Saw-Blade-Bag/dp/B003A04UKI

Do not know where I bought it....

[Mike Kees]

Looks like Yonak owns some shares in a blade company too !:) I like those containers,will have to see if I can find any locally.

[Jay Larson]

I made up a little cabinet the hangs on the wall. I used to have a couple of screws to hang the blades, but got tired of knicking my fingers when I pulled a blade off.
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[Rick Potter]

I have a simple drawer unit that rolls under the table. A couple narrow drawers for push sticks, dado, etc. One tall drawer, where blades are kept, upright, with masonite spacers between each for tooth protection. There are also a couple stationary dividers to keep types of blades separated. I must have 40 blades in that drawer.

The unit is about 14" wide, whatever height fits under the table, and 24" deep.

Simple, cheap, and easy to find the right blade. You just leaf through them like a filing cabinet.

[jack duren]

Right there on the wall or floor:D.....375231

[David Eisenhauer]

I like that Dick. I started to say that I don't have that many blades, but, counting in the RA saw blades, it probably adds up to that many. Make another one because life's too short for fixable regrets.

[David Eisenhauer]

Way, way too organized Yonak, even for my German blood.

[Jim Dwight]

Mine are in a drawer under my Ryobi BT-3100. The drawer has a thick bottom and 1/2 inch dowels sticking out for extra blades and my dado set. I have thin plywood discs separating the blades and keeping the carbide teeth from touching.

[Roy Petersen]

I got the inspiration for this one somewhere on the net.
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That's pretty nice there. Love the trays, but don't understand the need for the slider in addition to them. Is there a need or point to have the whole thing slide out as well as those that I'm not seeing?

[Dick Mahany]

That's pretty nice there. Love the trays, but don't understand the need for the slider in addition to them. Is there a need or point to have the whole thing slide out as well as those that I'm not seeing?

I often parked my Bies fence over the box or had a panel or assembly sitting on the table above the box and thought a little additional extension wouldn't hurt . Since I had a few extra short slides laying around, I decided to use them for added convenience, they really aren't needed.

[Jim Morgan]

These 12" long 3x3s live in a cabinet with other table saw accessories.

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I clamped a stop to the table saw fence to keep the block centered over the arbor, raised and lowered the blade, flipped the block end for end, raised and lowered the blade again, moved the fence and repeated. Pretty rudimentary.

[Roy Petersen]

Since I had a few extra short slides laying around, I decided to use them for added convenience, they really aren't needed.Well, there is the added "cool" factor they provide. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing for that. ;)

[Matthew Bennett DC]

Wow, you guys have fancy systems set up just to store blades. All I do is throw the blades in a cardboard box next to the table saw.

To clarify, I don't "throw" them.

[Jim Becker]

That's pretty nice there. Love the trays, but don't understand the need for the slider in addition to them. Is there a need or point to have the whole thing slide out as well as those that I'm not seeing?
The drawer slides get the whole box way out of the way when it's not needed. I think that's actually a nice idea. No bumping it with your hips, knees or whatever while operating that saw.

[Art Moore]

I keep mine in a storage cabinet drawer.

[David M Peters]

I use an old pizza box to store my spare blade. Sits vertically on a shelf like a record sleeve.
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[Roy Petersen]

The drawer slides get the whole box way out of the way when it's not needed. I think that's actually a nice idea. No bumping it with your hips, knees or whatever while operating that saw.
If it was already under the table, where the slides would slide it to, isn't that already out of the way?

[Jim Becker]

Roy, if you look at the photos, the box is slid out on the slides to make accessing the drawers more convenient. Yes, you could permanently mount it under the table, too. I suspect that the person who made that design didn't want to bend down and look way under to select or store a blade; hence, the slides to bring the box out to where it's more convenient. But I'm "assuming" that from examining the images.

[Roy Petersen]

Hmm, not seeing it that way. The blade tray slides out from the body in either case, so it's either one tray length out from under the saw (fully exposing the tray and blade), or at full slide length *plus* tray length out from under. Aside from being easier to see if something was on the table or the fence was in the way, I don't see that as obstructing access.
Fancy. Needs labels visible from the outside, but fancy. :)

[Lee Schierer]

I got the inspiration for this one somewhere on the net. It was a fun project and served me well. It went with my Unisaw when I downsized and now regret it. I built it so that it could hold my dado stack blades, but they never made it in to the box for some reason.
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How about a few more design details? What did you use for the tray bottoms? What was used for the drawer pulls? Is there a dowel in the center of the blade? If there is no dowel, what would you think of an over sized hole in the tray bottom so you could stick your finger in the arbor hole to pick up the blade?

[Charles Wiggins]

I don't have very many extra blades so I keep them on a pegboard hook on the wall above the saw. I had a few pieces of scrap MDF around so I cut a few squares and drilled 1/2" holes through them and I use them as spacers to keep the blades from banging into each other.

[Roger Marty]

I own a single Freud 50t combo blade and a Freud Super Dado. That's it.

[Dick Mahany]

How about a few more design details? What did you use for the tray bottoms? What was used for the drawer pulls? Is there a dowel in the center of the blade? If there is no dowel, what would you think of an over sized hole in the tray bottom so you could stick your finger in the arbor hole to pick up the blade?

1) The tray bottoms were from some assorted thin plywood scraps that I seemed to have many of. As I recall they were around 1/8" nominal thickness but varied a little between pieces depending on what the substrate was to begin with. I simply milled the side dado slots to accommodate the thickest pieces.

2) I used some srcap Padauk cut offs for the handles and simply cut the ends at an angle to ease gripping the pulls. They are simply glued with Titebond III.

3) There is a garden variety dowel from my local orange box store for the blade locator. Also fastened with glue only.

4) An oversize hole near the blade edge is a great idea and I wish I had thought of that! Also, if one was to notch the dowel, the box could then also be stood on end with vertical slides which might be a more useful orientation for space considerations or shelf/cabinet mounting.

5) The box was made from 3/4" ply cut offs and edge banded

6) Lastly, the slide out trays have a little extra length to support the extended tray with blade when slid out for access.

Hope this helps.

[David Eisenhauer]

Place to put your coffee cup Roy.

[Roy Petersen]

Place to put your coffee cup Roy.
lol!
I love it, and see the need clear as day.

[Jim Becker]

Place to put your coffee cup Roy.

ROFLOL!!!! Yea...that's the ticket!

[michael langman]

A nail in the side of a cabinet by my saw holds my blades. I cut a piece of cardboard to go between the blades.

[Matt Day]

Here’s mine.

[David Eisenhauer]

Uh oh Roy - more slides.

[Roy Petersen]

I'm ok with the slides. His is missing a coffee cup holder, though. :p

[Matt Day]

Don’t need one, I don’t drink the stuff!

[Dennis McCullen]

376797376798I think I should win the award for low-tech blade storage. I have several file cabinets in the shop so I'm restricted to 10" or less diameter but that's just fine for my table saw blades. Little to no room for vertical storage and easy I.D. and access. A cardboard box with labeled dividers like cut-out file folders.

[Martin Wasner]

I got the inspiration for this one somewhere on the net. It was a fun project and served me well. It went with my Unisaw when I downsized and now regret it. I built it so that it could hold my dado stack blades, but they never made it in to the box for some reason.
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That's pretty cool. I've got a stack of blades just sitting on a table I've been meaning to come up with something for a little cleaner storage. I might steal this idea.

[Bill Carey]

Here’s mine.

Wow - that makes my table saw blades on a screw in the wall right in the middle of my band saw blades on a screw in the wall look - well, primitive. And the funny thing is I don't have that much wall space. Hmmmm...