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blackiris

blackiris

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I'm horrible about organizing everything and anything....

What's getting me lately is the stickers for the back of my frames TRUVUE and My own......

How/Where do you store them so they are easy to get to ??
Neither of these are on a roll. Right now they seem to be scattered everywhere... :faintthud:


ALSOOO...... I seem to collect a lot of backing paper... good size chunks.. that can be used on other pieces...
Where do you guys store those? :shrug: It's seriously driving me bananas!

Anyone willing to share some secrets???????? :popc:
 
I used a big clip to keep the paper scraps together and hung that on a peg board in my work area next to my work table.

I am a bit organizationally challenged. Need help finishing up the home studio. I have people coming at the end of the month and next month and it needs help!
 
When it got to 99% of the glass out the door was CC or MG....
I stopped using the stickers. (storage problem solved. The customer
isn't going to read any stupid sticker but one.... OURS. Where do
they take it to get the broken glass/frame fixed)

Storing paper is done on the roll you bought. Saving chunks of
paper instead of using them to wipe your hands or backing small
stuff is just silly.

It takes seconds to take a fresh chunk of paper off the roll, but might
take you 3 minutes to sort and find a chunk big enough in a stack.

@ $60/hr shop time... the money bean count is $.05 verses $3 to
save $.0003 in paper.

Same with matboard, foamcore & museum glass..... if it's under 11x14... DON'T.
 
I agree with Baer. I "store" my backing paper scraps on top of the roll I cut it from. That way I grab the scraps first to get at teh roll. If it is in my hands I tend to use it :) If I have to cross the room to get a scrap that might/might not fit I don't go to the extra effort.

As for using / reusing... You know that you can load the points you pull out of a frame into your point gun and reuse them. No waste, no muss. But going to the effort of loading the loose points into a gun will take soooooo long that it is not cost effective. So I for one do not bother. I do throw them (4 times out of 5) into the sharps container that my blades go into. That way they get recycled.
 
D_Derbonne said:
I used a big clip to keep the paper scraps together and hung that on a peg board in my work area next to my work table.

I am a bit organizationally challenged. Need help finishing up the home studio. I have people coming at the end of the month and next month and it needs help!
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Thats a good idea Deb.
I wish I could hire someone to come in and organize everything for me. Then come back and put it all away every night! :cry:
 
Clip Board for stickers, scrap papers, I have a few hanging rolls for paper, one empty with just a dowel rod that I hang my off cuts on.
 
Since it is driving you bananas, you must be in the produce department... so, next time you buy mushrooms, save the little blue foam tub that they came in to use as storage for your stickers.
:cool: Rick
 
That would be my problem...putting everything away every time that I use it.

I try but for some reason it just doesn't happen.
 
Deb, when I was good about using binders and clips for my work orders I had wires hanging under my work table. I hung the clips where I used them most and was able to keep it all handy that way. And i used the clips when they were where I looked for them. But then I moved my printer so the work orders weren't coming out where the clips were kept to hold them :) Maybe if I move the printer back under the work bench I'll use the clips again....

It's about convenience. If the organization tools aren't convenient you won't use them :) That may be why I use up the backing paper scraps, they are where I look first.
 
Less just throws them anywhere
 
I'm with Less. There are tables in my workshop which I do think have a surface underneath all the paper and stickers and so on. Fortunately, right now, I have a huge workshop....

I can organize pretty well. It's keeping up with it that's the problem.....
 
Me too...... I'm a stacker!!
my fitting table is 8ft long........with everything I use..... I usually have a 4x4 ft space to fit......... :(
 
Less said:
Less just throws them anywhere
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Ylva said:
It's good to know I am not alone.....:o
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Me, too! I try to organize but first, gotta get the framing done. Will organize later when I have time.
(When I have time is the problem :icon11:).
I can mentally organize the workload, the workspace is sometimes another story.
I have the shop stickers on a roll mounted under the work table on a bracket made out of a wire coat hanger so it rolls out like toilet paper.
 
Fitting tables are 4 x 8 feet and no one leaves at the end of the day until they are completely clear, everything put away.

There's a huge boost in starting the day with a clear table.

We take an hour every now and then to organize all the little things, and there are a lot of them, that framers' need.

Our favourite trick is foamcore and the hot melt glue gun - custom boxes to fit everything - even the tacking iron lives in a lttle FC house so it doesn't get scratched.
 
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