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View Poll Results: Do you label your stringer?
Yes - always 0 0%
Depends on my mood 3 3.45%
Sometimes 23 26.44%
No, that is insane. 61 70.11%
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Old 2012-10-26, 10:22am
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Kerry, that's a great idea! I'm going to start doing that for blacks too.
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Old 2012-10-26, 5:42pm
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I voted no because I don't label the stringer or twisties themselves, but I do label the tray they are in... I bought these jumbo straws and they fit perfectly in the ice tray tubes.

This way I can pull much longer stringers in case I want to wind stringer all the way around a bead several times without a break. This photo was taken June 10th 2009 right after I created them and they were pretty empty, but they are full of stringers now.
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Where'd you find the jumbo straws? I did a search and found 1/2" ones...are those what you use?

I had to special order the ice cube trays a few months back, because the Walmart here didn't carry them. I have a feeling the straws might be the same situation. Crossing my fingers I can get them from Amazon, 'cause man...that'd help my stringer situation tons

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Old 2012-10-26, 6:42pm
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Loving your stringer storage solutions.

Do you ladies have any trouble with the stringer snapping in those tubes? I always have to pull my stringer to 12 inch or less lengths or else I have a lot of trouble with them breaking
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Old 2012-10-26, 9:54pm
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Jenne, I found the jumbo straws at random grocery stores. Far and few between.

Heather, I am always breaking them. But I am a documented cults.
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Like many people, I use round plastic tubing to store my glass. The way the tubes sit on each other, there is a small empty space right next to each tube. I put the stringer for each colour of glass rod in the empty space right next to the storage tube. That way I know exactly where the stringers are for each colour.

Beats labeling the stringers!
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