Poll: Where do you keep your WW reference materials?

[Matt Meiser]

I'm curious. Do you keep them in the shop? Somewhere in the house (or another part of the house, if your shop is in the house?) In the bathroom?

I have mine in the office in the house. Seems like I run in to look something up on a regular basis. Of course if I put them in the shop, it would be the other way around.

[tod evans]

shop proper, shop office, shop bathroom, kitchen table, bookcase, house bathroom, nightstand.........think maybe i need to get organized? .02 tod

[Bob Huddleston]

My magazines sort of migrate...from living room, to bathroom (long stay here...), back to living room, to kitchen counter, to airborne as wife throws it at me, to basement workshop amidst the other assorted things. And I'll be darned if I can ever find an article when I need one....

[Roger Bailey]

Great question, should get some great responses. I have a system. [1] to my bathroom downstairs for a quick look of new items. [2] endtable in livingroom for in depth study. [3] scan anything interesting to my PC. [4] placed in my shop in a 3 ring binder. I don't keep whole mags just articles that interest me or project ideas.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Currently I keep reference materials in the livingroom magazine rack or in bookcase in the familyroom. Once the new shop is finished, most will be in the shop with those I'm currently studying in the livingroom.

[Dev Emch]

Without the constant hen picking of a female in the house, this stuff winds up all over. Where ever there is free space.:D

[Dev Emch]

shop proper, shop office, shop bathroom, kitchen table, bookcase, house bathroom, nightstand.........think maybe i need to get organized? .02 tod

You need to get organized! Lately my favorate phrase is... Oh, I didnt know I had one of those. Cool!

[Reg Mitchell]

laughing...when my girlfriend comes over to clean I am usually at work. I have mags in the bathroom to study. on the coffee table to glance at with morning coffee, on or at the pc table. After a good cleaning I have no idea where they are until I star spreading them out again. ON occasion I take one to the shop and do some sketches for a cut list and then back to the house
My world is scattered all over my place and my girlfriend keeps screwing it up :eek:

[Michael Gibbons]

I keep mine in a couple boxes in the basement. I keep them in numerical order/ Monthly and by mag type ie. Wood, pop wood, FWW. Also keep catalogs and brochures in order. No sense keeping catalogs that are years old. Need up-to-date prices and availability.


Mike

[tod evans]

I keep mine in a couple boxes in the basement. I keep them in numerical order/ Monthly and by mag type ie. Wood, pop wood, FWW. Also keep catalogs and brochures in order. No sense keeping catalogs that are years old. Need up-to-date prices and availability.


Mike

holy cow michael! wanna come visit? i`ll buy lunch:) .02 tod

[Glenn Clabo]

Project of the week beside the bed...never sleep through the night...the rest in the shop.

[Jerry Olexa]

I have stuff in my den, in the bathroom, by my bedstand, in the workshop and the project I'm working on could be anywhere (like on the kitchen table). Hmmm, maybe I'm not organized

[Bob Noles]

Currently keep mine in the shop, but sometimes wonder if that is the best place because I find myself running out there to grab some reading material and running back to the house constantly.

Of course it does give me an excuse to run out there more :rolleyes:

[Jim Becker]

I selected somewhere else in the house as that was the best description for my office, but my shop is in a separate building.

[Andy London]

I consider reference materials in two parts, I keep all the tool manuals in the shop in a cupboard, I keep all my magazines etc...under the bed....doesn't go over all that well:) I also have a lot of books which I keep in the home office.

[Frank Pellow]

Tool reference manuals are in well labelled drawers in the shop.

Books and magazines are on a built-in bookshelf in the shop (and they are well organized :) ).

[Jim Hager]

About once each year my wife will take all the magazines stacked up by my chair and organize them in notebooks which I keep in the cabinets in my showroom. I've got a kitchen full of magazines that I have collected over the years that I go through once in a while to find a design for someone.

My hardbound books stay in a bookcase right beside my computer so that I can get my hands on them while here in the office.

[Russ Massery]

In the house,I do most of my research in there.

[Andy Hoyt]

Right next to the tool porn.

[Earl Reid]

I have 3 cabinets full of WW magizines in the computor room and hard backs in book shelves ,a drawer in the shop has manuals and items of special interest.
The Magizines provide ideas for gifts for special people.
Earl:)

[Bill Ryall]

Tool manuals in a filing cabinet drawer.

Books on several shelves, arranged by subject matter- home restoration/renovation, boat building, general woodworking, metalworking

Plans in binders in another filing cabinet drawer.

Current project/projects on my desk at home, taken into the shop on an as-needed basis.

Magazines in my home office annex (bathroom)

My various trade reference manuals- HVAC, rigging, carpentry electrical, plumbing, sheet metal, welding, etc. in a shelf in my office at work

Handyman-In-Your Pocket copies in my shop, truck and office at work.

Bill R, somewhere in Maine

[Art Mulder]

Magazines lay around a while (a short while) until they've been "cover-to-covered" once or twice. Then they go into the filing cabinet. After I've got a year or so, I pull them out, sort them, and put them into a Lee Valley magazine binder, which goes on a bookcase up in the MBR. The books are in a different bookcase down in the Family rm.

I never realized how scattered that sounded until I sat down to type it out.

I need to build another bookcase, I think.

[Matt Meiser]

Right next to the tool porn.

I hope THAT'S not in the bathroom. :eek: :eek: :eek: :D

[Dev Emch]

Some of the really fat catalogs also wind up in the shop. I use the paper to start up my pot belly. I have gone through all the 1/2 inch or thick woodworking catalogs. Now I am on the really super fat one for 2006. Wink Wink.

[Joe Mioux]

Geo. and Mira Nakashima books in night stand, because I am reading them, Krenov's same place. Tage Frid's in the shop cabinet as well as all old FWW magazines. Current FWW where ever it is convenient to read them.

Joe

[David Fried]

They come in the front door and migrate to the bathroom. When they are displaced by the next arrivals they go upstairs to the bedroom. One pile for books, one for magazines, and one for catalogs. A new catalog means an old one gets tossed into the recycling bin. When the magazine pile falls over I rip out the articles I want to keep and put them in a binder, the rest gets recycled. I too need a bookcase! Anyone know a woodworker?

Dave Fried

[Tom Hamilton]

The ww stuff takes several forms and several different paths.

Magazines in a basket beside my chair until they overflow and LOML says "it's time dear." Then they go to the shop until I tear out the articles I want and file them in file boxes.

Woodworking books, mostly Taunton Press, are in my at home office (the only one I have:D ).

Tool/vendor catalogs are also in the basket, but often get pitched before the next one because they all have web site.

Oh, forgot, the bathroom does have a few books, mostly shop tips and shop layout.

The problem is an effective index system: "where is that article on demilune tables?"

And so it goes. Best regards, Tolm

[Jim DeLaney]

Reference material in the shop. Reading material other than magazines in the library, and magazines in the livingroom and library. No, not the loo. I have a dedicated library room.

[Steve Coons]

Where don't I keep them? I even have a couple stashed in each car for reading while waiting.

[John Hulett]

Starting to compile a bit of a stack of magazines (mostly by my nightstand - voted "somewhere else") and I'm running into the problem of needing to go back and find articles.

I was thinking about creating some sort of Access database so I can find articles more easily. For example, I knew I had seen a few months back, an article that had a "sharpening station" spec'd out. It took me about an hour to find the article.

Has anyone done this? I guess it would take some time to build and maintain as I receive more magazines, but it could be worth it...

[Stu Ablett in Tokyo Japan]

In the house, in both bathrooms in the house, in the Dungeon, in the L shop, and in my van......sometimes Tokyo traffic is UNREAL, so at least I can get some reading done! :D

[William Lewis]

Mostly by my chair in the family room, then bathroom, then th shop. Need to organize better cause when i go looking for something takes a while to find. If SWMBO puts away i will not find them so i try to take care of them so she doesn't.

William Lewis

[Steve Clardy]

4-drawer file cab in the shop office