Storing finished carvings

[Marci MN]

How do you store your finished carvings? I dont have the room to have them displayed and keep safe in my house. I would like to store them in something until I need them for a local sale this coming August.

Do you wrap them and stack in something?

Any ideas for me?

[mwilleson]

Marci,

I know a guy who carves all year long for a Christmas woodcarving show we have. What he does he keeps a few of the large RubberMaid tubs with the lids and every finished carving gets wrapped up and placed in the tub.

When the time comes for the show he pulls out the tub(s) and he's got his inventory ready.

[Kenny_S]

Bubble wraped ina air/water tite container like a Rubber Maid storage chest. My sister-in-law is a superviser for a medical business and gets everything in bubble wrap so have an endless supply of it.The Chest is kept inside in a closet. That is for the carvings I sell. Others are displayed in every room

[Richard_FL]

Since your going to try to sell them you may want to buy some bubble wrap from a office supply store. A few layers of that and you should be able to safely put them in a box for storage. I'd put them in several smaller boxes so when the time comes to sell them you can just pick them up and go.

***Wow we all where answering at the same time

[Thor]

A lot of artists who do shows use those large plastic tubs for transport and storage. The sizes are so conveniently varied that you can have a few tubs to hold different size pieces. They are easy to stack, carry, pull in and out of cars, and are waterproof when weather is bad. Finding room to store those between show is another problem altogether.
I would use cloth to wrap them up in rather than bubble wrap for wood.
Thor

[Marci MN]

Thanks.. I do have bubble wrap and tubs available. I may even have a place to store those tubs.

Now.. when you bring your carvings to sell.. do you provide packaging for the customer also? Or rewrap in the bubble wrap and put in a bag for them?

[Plain_Ol_Ed]

Under the wrong conditions, the plastic of the bubble wrap will stick to the carving. I'd suggest wrapping the carving in a layer of paper or white cotton then the bubble wrap. No sense taking a chance.

[Lightningbolt]

Fortunate for me that my primary money-maker are walking sticks that average only 58" tall and are as skinny as a bean stalk! So, in other words they are the "tops" when it comes to space efficent storage.

Of course, other fortunate atrributes include living in a 3 bedroom house, (Hey, I only use one) so I just stand them upright in the corners except for most of them which remain temporarily on informal display in the living room.

But to answer your question to the degree that I can, I do store them for transporting in long pasteboard boxes that I bring home from work, after I wrap them in newspaper. I usually only wrap the actual art carving on the upper part of the stick and stack them zig-zag style and everything has always arrived "alive".

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

the few shows I have gone to, the vendors, sometimes wrapped in a piece of newspaper and then into a plastic grocery bag

[Kenny_S]

Marci, Wrap them in Bubble wrap and put them in a plastic or paper bag with your business card in with it. Most customers don't expect gift wraping. Anyway none that I have seen is several states.