In what order do you sort your glass

[Trudi]

I just list the names in excel (copy them down the columns for the amount I need). I print in a small font.
Print, cut up and tape on!

[Krysia@No98]

I have a little table where I put in the name of the colour and then the number of rods and then the supplier and then the date I got them and then go to print preview and ta-da I just need to press print!

Then the label comes out with the name of the colour, part number, supplier,delivery date, name of manufacture and if it's opaque/transparent/translucent..

I would but I haven't got there yet coz it could be a little scary get it to put the list into another table so I could see how often I ordered new colours.  I see that as talking it one step too far

[Trudi]

I have a little table where I put in the name of the colour and then the number of rods and then the supplier and then the date I got them and then go to print preview and ta-da I just need to press print!

Then the label comes out with the name of the colour, part number, supplier,delivery date, name of manufacture and if it's opaque/transparent/translucent..

I would but I haven't got there yet coz it could be a little scary get it to put the list into another table so I could see how often I ordered new colours.  I see that as talking it one step too far

... perhaps

[Krysia@No98]

Ha ha ha 

[AnnaSpanna]

Mine are in colour order (all 104) and I always keep one labelled rod in the tube. Thus when I take out a rod and use it I then put it straight back in its "home" as soon as its cool. My DH and other interesting glass is kept in a row all on its own and thus out of colour sync. But I can't be arsed to label every rod and I must be really un-intelligent if I can't then figure out which tube it needs to go back in to based on its colour compared to my choices of where it could go! Although I will admit to some of my pretty blues possiby being a tad mixed up - but it doesn't stop my world from turning if I use zachary instead of chalcedony....

But def colour order as its so pretty - but it can be really annoying when you buy in a new colour and you have to rearrange every subsequent tube to shift it all down by one!

[ScarletLeonard]

I sort by colour and tone, bottom of the rack (easiest to reach) is clear, peace, tuxedo and marshmallow.
Next up is light and dark grey, ivory and dark ivory.

Then I go into the none base glass black greys and browns (khaki, hades, intense black, hippo, cayon etc....)

The rest of the rack is taken up in colour order and sorted so the opaque is next to it's nearest counterpart in transparent starting with orange and yellow (smallest collection of colour) into green into teals/turquoise and blues, purples, pinks and reds. I ocassionally sit and just pull stringers and these are stored with the main rods.

A little on the anal side because of the way the racks are similar shades are on top of each other so if I'm using Olive I can go up to Lapis, Eggplant and Lipstick and the relevant transparent are just a shift to the left... I may be getting into the slightly OCD territory here, yes I know where every colour is an no I am not looking at my storage right now.

I have another rack on the other wall which is reserved for my DH and special glasses. (the most difficult to reach.)
Underneath every block on the wine rack is a label telling me what is in each section and labelled by name and number.

Twisties have a rather un-organised drawer, Millifori and murrini  also have a drawer but I have some plastic pill organisers in that one to keep them all sorted

I have a biscuit tin lid that is getting quite full with stringer and twistie odds and ends.

The contingency plan for new glass is a few spare slots (caused by my need to have similar tones in a line too) and if all else fails a few jam jars

[sarah t]

do you guys have any time to make beads with all that well organised glass  

mine are in tubes ....in a mixture of colours but i keep makers sepperate ...and specials very sepperate ....... but i have those i use a lot close to hand for grabbing

on my bench i have shorts  and stingers etc in jars close to hand .....and frit and leaf and tools and presses and ? and ?.....i do sepperate shorts into colours ...and have a jar of too short to use but too long to chuck ...god knows what i will do with them (frit?) but i am a hoarder and hate waste

i make sure i dont use the one with the label and have a need to replace/wish list for when i am running low of something

i do tidy up at the begining of each session and put rods back into their slots and pick out ones i am going to work on if i have a plan of action for that session  

but other than that organised choas really  

[puffin]

My goodness some people really do have an order ummmmm I wonder how far I will go. No surprise there to find out today there is a delay in delivery of shed !!!!!! ordered it dec 4th. And the said now sometime in the new year because it is xmas . We I never 

[GlassOcean]

I have a gorgeous wooden pigeon hole cabinet thing I got from the college skip!!  I have got CIM, Reich and Effetre separated and trans and opaques separated as well.  My DH and specials sit in yellow china jugs in the window with my presses!  I am rapidly running out of room!!! 

Each of my cubby holes fits 4 lengths of pipe in, in a square (2x2) shape perfectly and there are 36 cubby holes    think I may have to get melting pretty much from now until next Christmas to make a bit of a dent in it all!

[Krysia@No98]

That sounds wonderful and also begs for a picture

[lemon kitten]

I sort mine ny colour and type, as in, all the opaques starting from white and through to black, and all the transparents the same way.  But I am VERY tidy and organised......some would call it OCD!! 

Janey x

[Pat from Canvey]

....i do sepperate shorts into colours ...and have a jar of too short to use but too long to chuck ...god knows what i will do with them (frit?) but i am a hoarder and hate waste

Why don't you just add the short to the next rod of the same colour. If you don't have the same colour, just add it to a clear or any other rod so it can be used up.

[Kaz]

My drawers as follows:
Closest to me is a drawer with frequently used glass - clear, white, ivories, blacks, opal yellow etc.
Silver glass reducers
Silver glass and other special glass strikers
Effetre neutrals
Effetre cools
Effetre warms
Effetre specials, odds, filigranos and cool colours
Effetre commercial stringers
Vetrofond standards
Vetrofond odds
CIM neutrals
CIM cools
CIM warms
Reichenbach - all
All my bullseye rods are in huge clear glass vases sorted into neutral, warm and cool, as is my ASK collection and my longer Effetre rods from my original starter pack!
Kazx

[Magpie]

You all make a total mockery of my SINGLE (!!!!) shelf in a single cupboard where the black, white and clear sit to the left, then effetre in the middle and CiM to the right in no particular colour order whatsoever. My DH and other 'special' (to me) glasses like cranberry and pandora and my single rod of EDP and copper green are wedged in the drawer above (along with bags of frits, murrini, presses, goldstone, spare tools, silver leaf/wire, etc). I don't label the rods but I do make sure that the one labelled rod in each pack is the last one I use.

Hmmm, thinking of it, maybe that's why I come up with some of the more 'interesting' colour combinations

[rocky]

Another labeller here - label has colour and code, manufacturer, rough price of rod (so I don't just reach for cranberry pink as a base!!  )
All kept in colour order (DH and specials separate). I'm thinking of separating into trans and opaques ...