Hello My Name is Renee and I'm a Glass Horder

[Renee T]

I'm setting up my studio after stepping away from the torch 15 years ago to tend to other things in life. Am reorganizing, adding proper ventilation, and setting up actual glass storage. I have what I roughly estimated 70 or so pounds of glass and I keep finding more. And it's all really dirty.

So I'm currently running a dishwasher load - got 12 pounds in and it appears to be working - sparkly glass! Anything with a label I set aside so I can verify colors when I sort out the mess.

I need some functional storage. I got some pvc pipe and some downspout to cut up and it seems to work. Except when I stepped back to look at the setup, then look at all my glass, all I could think of was the scene Jaws with the line, "We're going to need a bigger boat." I'm going to have to rethink it.

Effetre, CIM and other 104s, Lauscha, (The Bullseye I sold off), Satake, Boro clear and color, Kugler and Richenbach, enamals, some random pieces of sheet glass, some boutique silver glass sold by some guy that came around the Southern Flames meeting (Brad Shute?), And a bag of mystery glass i have no idea what. There will be a lot of coe testing before each session.

I sent my Lynx to GTT for a spa refresh, and my kiln still works. The oxy cons still appear to work and I got new hoses.

The plan is to start on basic beads and donate to Beads of Courage. I don't know how shaky my hands are at this point.

So lots of rambling, this forum has shown me how to do all this (except for the part where I stop buying more glass.)

[KJohn]

Cardboard mailing tubes work great for me. And much cheaper.

and glass glass glass sounds good to me! Welcome back

[Renee T]

Thanks! I checked out the tubes and if you get it in bulk, the price is about half that of the pvc tubing. Plus I don't have to cut it.

Still unearthing glass - found some kugler rods.

[KJohn]

I will confess I made a mistake when I went to restock my mailing tubes. In fact, I will have to get an electric saw or something so I can cut them down, they are about 16" long and 2" diameter so lots of things will get lost in there if i don't. Waiting to see if there are some good deals on prime day although honestly the tools are not that expensive. I got mine from ULINE.

[Croft Eeusk]

Welcome home!

I hope to start back up too after a break.

Ooooo! Dishwasher! I just got a place w/one, after 50 some years of saying 'Meh' to them. Also have to rebuild a studio, and will be needing to see what still works after being in a too damp basement for storage.

And have also, em, collected -- My Precious! -- glass. But have stuck to 104, so at least that's less worry. My problem was I didn't get rid of any glass during that down time and so moved everything.

Totally spaced on using a dishwasher on stuff that was left out on a workbench for too long - way too much dirty glass! Thanks for the reminder.

I use gutter downspout cut to length - DH can be useful at times Which made moving it a whole bunch easier than it could have been, and scored an old steelcase glass front cabinet at a university auction for storage. It holds a lot of glass


dj

[Renee T]

Now THATS what I'm talking about! Kudos on restarting your studio. I never realized how many components go into a studio. Right now I'm thinking about how to organize mandrels. I've been slowly sorting through all the clutter and I'm pretty sure I have enough. I need to figure out a place to clean mandrels and dip in bead release. Sounds nit-picky now that I type it out.

[KJohn]

haha it's all about the details. And you do want a place where they can dry and not get knocked against. Have fun

[Croft Eeusk]

Got curious as to when that photo was taken because I knew wasn't w/in last several years. This is a screen shot from 9/2017 LE poll about number of colors in a stash



Em. Yup. Always been addicted to fire, but look what happened after I discovered it can melt glass.

Hopefully we both manage this w/o going completely bonkers

I used an old yam can partially filled w/sand to let mandrels dry. Which reminds me - need to get bead release. Among other bits

dj

[KJohn]

I still have some yam cans too, and some sour cream containers. But I've been going to goodwill now & then and picking up vases in different colors that i am using for mandrels, as well as glass rods.

[Woonasty]

yams, sour cream... yeah, my glass workbench kinda looks like i just got really hungry one day. i have artichoke heart containers, a ramen cup from india with random short bits of glass in it, a lemonade bottle for half used stringers, a beer glass, etc etc. >.>

For my rod collection i use the mailing tubes from USPS, they will ship you as many as you want for free. But theyre not actually tubes anymore, theyre triangular. Which stack really well on the shelf but dont look as cool and are quite large.