What can I stand my Mandrels in????

[Fruddy]

I also have a drilled wooden block.... But then I am slightly predisposed to having nice orderly lines when I dip my mandrels. So I am trying to break this foible and now have several jars filled with vermiculite - now I find myself arranging the mandrels in pretty symmetrical patterns instead...

Oh blimey.... you sound just like me!  I'm one of those people who loves order and hates mess and chaos.. i'm already mentally planning exactly where everything is going to go in the studio - have fished a load of old kilner jars without lids out of the attic - perfect for storing glass rods, I think!  Plus which I have found a load of old Sarsons pickling jards which are slightly smaller - they seem pretty damn good for holding stringer!!

[Blue Box Studio]

I use old baked bean tins (or similar!) filled with vermiculite.  But then I only have a few mandrels.  You can get about 12 in each.

[GaysieMay]

I had a catering size tin with sand, but have up graded to a vase, after finding one whilst clearing the garage, I feel quite posh now!

[AnnaSpanna]

have fished a load of old kilner jars without lids out of the attic - perfect for storing glass rods, I think! 

Just wait till you discover the joys of drainpipe for stashing your glass in.... all stacked in a nice cabinet (mine's from ikea) and colour co-ordinated. Pure bliss!

[Hotglass28]

A jar of cat litter, minus the poo 

[Dickie]

Sarah uses a small 4 or 5" galvanised plant pot from Ikea, with some red sand (flower decorating style) also from Ikea. Looks nice too.

[mizgeorge]

I nick my daughter's Easter Egg buckets (nice little tin ones with winnie the pooh etc on them) and fill with playsand, so same idea but less pretty!

[Les]

LOL George ... I have a Ben10 one

[rocky]

Sarah uses a small 4 or 5" galvanised plant pot from Ikea, with some red sand (flower decorating style) also from Ikea. Looks nice too.

Hmmm ... galvanised plant pots. I knew there was a reason why I needed to go to Ikea They would look better than my old plastic measuring jug with potting compost 

[Dickie]

I think it's this one at 10.5cm

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/30155665

and this is the sand

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/10159749

[Pat from Canvey]

If you want to use sand, specify "fine sand" not sand from the beach.

[Les]

I use a chunk of flower arrangers oasis, still shrink wrapped so that I don't get bits everywhere

[jobead]

I feel left out now, I have no pot, no sand, no wood with holes.


I dip em and stick em on the rod rest, flame dry if I need to. I'm more disorganised than I thought 


Jo

[Kalorlo]

I have an empty ice cream tub (the bucket-shaped kind) with my leftover annealing bubbles that don't fit in the container I use for them in it.

Jo: my rod rest tends to be fairly full of rods, and I dip more mandrels than it has slots for at a time. 

[jobead]

Yup I am a very slow dipper ! I tend to work in shorts bursts and then get called upon to do something mundane