After years of storing my glass in a metal cabinet with drawers, I wanted something bigger and easily accessible.
So this week, I (with help from my dad) have spent three days cutting, smoothing and assembling 300 metres of pipe. I have to confess that now it's finished I haven't got the faintest idea of how to order my glass. Should it be in colour by manufacturer, by number codes or just as it comes out of the cabinet? I just want a way of doing it so that I'm not forever moving it about when i get a new colour.
I wonder, when all my glass is in, will I be shocked at how sparse it looks or how full... :o
Oh, here's a pic in case anyone wants to see. 360 spaces in total...
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Can't help at all I'm afraid as I have a tiny space for my glass. Personally I'd probably order by colour, but that's just me.
thats a lovely lot of space, bet its full before you know it!
I used tubes too and ordered mine by colour and as I like to make close colour harmonies so having like colours together with opaque and clear mixed works for me.
I should have left extra space in between for all the new ones that Martin keeps tempting us with. Many of my new ones are in a meaningless heap as I ran out of tubes (though in my defense I didnt have that many to start with...)
I like to sort by make, then by colour as I had some problems with rods that looked very similar and were in fact wildly incompatible with eachother.
I have a separate section for non-104, and another for very precious or expensive stuff. And then the rest is in a big pile where I ran out of space...
When I had tubes, I colour coded the ends to make sure I never accidentally picked up something that was the wrong COE.
Same as George for me - I sort first by manufacturer and then by colour - this has been useful as I can easily see I really don't need any more blues !
Quote from: mizgeorge on August 01, 2013, 04:06:13 PM
I have a separate section for non-104, and another for very precious or expensive stuff.
Ooh lucky you - I don't think I have anything that precious or expensive!
Quote from: helbels on August 01, 2013, 05:50:30 PM
Quote from: mizgeorge on August 01, 2013, 04:06:13 PM
I have a separate section for non-104, and another for very precious or expensive stuff.
Ooh lucky you - I don't think I have anything that precious or expensive!
It's a very small section ;)
One rack for boro and another rack for 104.. boro is all labelled, 104 isnt except for DH and 'funny stuff'- lol
I keep maker separate then transparent or opaque then by colour. However there is no way my glass stash would ever fill that amount of storage !
I'm by colour too. I leave a few spare holes at the end of each colour run so that I can add more!
My silver glasses are in a separate beadcube, and my bullseye and gaffer glass are each in a big pot.
My 104 is organised in tubes in the sections of an IKEA unit by make, by colour
I also have one of the glass "cube" dividers in the top section where I keep all my non 104 glass so I don't grab it by mistake ;)
Carole
By make first and then by colour. Mine are in drawers so it's neutrals, reds and oranges, blues, greens, pinks and purples! Silver glass etc. is in two drawers - reducing and striking!
Kazx
I have two cabinets filled with tubes. One is all Effetre, the top half is opaque and the bottom half is transparents, and then each half is sorted by blues, greens, purples, etc.
The other cabinet is CIM and Reichenbach, only roughly sorted by colour.
I then have a large pile of glass because I need to make another cabinet and cut up more of those tubes......horrible job! ::)
Did you cut yours manually or by electric saw? It makes such a mess, doesn't it! :o
I'm by colour for all my 104. It's like a lovely rainbow :) DH comes after the rainbow then followed by any non 104. I use a silver sharpie to mark the rods I think might get mixed up. Like Electra. I've picked this up rather than turquoise more than once. Clear is in a jar on my bench as is the zephyr but it has also been sharpied :)
I used a mitre saw for the first lot then dad discovered a pipe cutter in his shed and that was a much cleaner cut. It was still a hell of a long job though :-\
I liked the idea of a rainbow effect but for the time being I'm trying by manufacturer/code. It doesn't look as pretty though...
X
I have the same type of tubes but in a wine rack so no where near as much. Mine start with clear and is then split by colour. Mostly I have opaque and transparent together other than with blues and I think green where they are split as I have too many for one tube. I then have the couple of tubes with my big batches that I have bought and I have a separate ones for DH glass (split by reducing) and special glass such as some of the Reichenbach colours.
I have found this to be any easy storage system but maybe that is because I don't have that much glass ;)
Now that I've started to put my glass into it, I can see that I don't have as much as I thought.
DH pointed out that Tuffnells are trying to help me fill it by having a sale :))
Mine is split by colour opaques in plastic pipes in a wine rack,the top of which is my workbench.I then have another wine rack for the transparent glass.Double helix & northstar 104 in separate jars,stringers & some clear in jars on my work surface. I also have a jar for odd rods & started rods. I'm not sure that it's organised enough. I might change it when my cim order arrives, couldn't help it with a sale on ;0)
I keep frit in a draw all labeled & little trays filled on my work bench, they all stack neatly. I also have a spice rack filled with some more frit.
Lynne x
Mine totally unorganised, still standing upright in pots though they are sorted into matching colours and special rods seperated :D Hence, hubby has a 'honey do list' and he will be revamping my work area very soon with a new organised rod storage system, although I like the tube idea I do worry about spiders esp we have a lot of False Widows that give a real nasty bite. I will have to get the whip out to get things moving along ;D
Quote from: Zen on August 02, 2013, 11:16:24 AM
DH pointed out that Tuffnells are trying to help me fill it by having a sale :))
Thanks for this, I didn't realise there was a sale on and there are a few CIM colours I would like.
Most of my glass is stored in the drawers of an old bureau that is in our garage....not ideal, but I think DH would be shocked if he saw how much glass I have collected!!
Quote from: cbeadies on August 02, 2013, 07:04:50 PM
Quote from: Zen on August 02, 2013, 11:16:24 AM
DH pointed out that Tuffnells are trying to help me fill it by having a sale :))
Thanks for this, I didn't realise there was a sale on and there are a few CIM colours I would like.
Most of my glass is stored in the drawers of an old bureau that is in our garage....not ideal, but I think DH would be shocked if he saw how much glass I have collected!!
Yeah, sale started just after I ordered some things :(
Yeah. I had a delivery this week just before the sale too :( doesn't mean I won't find an excuse to buy more now I have all those empty pipes to fill hehe ;)