Daniel Winkler

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Quick Build: Wood Storage Cart

June 9, 2024

As I use my laser cutter in more and more projects, I find myself with more and more plywood, cut to the bed size, for use in the laser. Much of it already has holes in it from projects that only used up a portion of the plywood. I like keeping around partially used wood until it's just about completely spent, as often I just need to cut out a single small bracket or something, and that type of thing typically fit perfectly into an already used piece of wood.

My shop consists of about two-thirds of an already small garage, and I have the unfortunate requirement of occasionally needing to store a car in that space (the other third consists of temporary walls which form a cat-accessable room for litter boxes...). Thus, a requirement for wood storage is that it either is up on the wall or ceiling, or moveable. Therefore, I decided to throw together a cart for storing plywood from 2x4s I already had on hand.

I don't have any in-progress pictures, but there's nothing too complicated here: 2x4s and a bunch of pocket screws.

Frame of the cart

I needed some panels on one side to keep the plywood sheets from falling out, so I used the same algorithm I used for my pendant light hanger to make some panels with an interesting pattern.

Panels

Here it is loaded up with some of the wood (still some reorganizing to do).

Loaded cart