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Richard Lagroon

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Well, I've been in business for a little over a year and the only thing I haven't found a good solution to is how to store smaller pieces of glass. Of course, I trash the very small pieces that I'll never use, but we all end up with lots of pieces that are too big to trash because they could be used for another frame job. Since these things tend to build up over time (at least for me), what's the best way to store them without having to keep lots of the original boxes on hand?
 
I wrap each piece in brown paper,mark the size & type of glass on the top.I then have a stack of each type stacked by height. Always keep the smaller ones in seperate piles. Makes it easy to recycle and prevents damage.
 
I found that I had much less scrap when I kept more sizes in stock.

Betty
 
Under the wall mounted glass cutter we have a stack leaning against the wall for both regular and non glare. We try not to put over about 14 inches wide to about 30 inches tall there. They are mostly smaller sizes. All the specialty glasses we wrap or if they are large enough put them in and old glass box between the papers that separate the glass.

Betty is right, but the conservation glass doesn't come in many sizes.
 
Huh? Conservation glass comes in all sizes-from 8x10 to 40x60, and I have them all, except 8x10.

I think is too much trouble to wrap and store glass. I got tired of the piles years ago. Everyone would just go for a new piece instead of look through the scrap. If I can cut it to a smaller standard size, that is what I do, and store it in the appropriate box. Really small pieces I will cut and use in photo frames (I add on a couple of dollars to the price of the frame when I do this).

I have very little scrap, however. As Betty says, the more sizes you carry, the less scrap there is.
 
Huh? Conservation glass comes in all sizes-from 8x10 to 40x60, and I have them all, except 8x10.
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Where you gettin' your glass from, Pamela?

None of my three sources for TV Conservation glass carries anything smaller than 16x20 and they all skip a few common sizes bigger than that. Since I will usually switch to acrylic for bigger than 30x40, that leaves a pretty limited selection of sizes.

I find myself cutting down 22x28 to have 11x14 on hand, for example.
 
The last time I looked Conservation Clear only came in 16 x 20, 30 x 40 ; (or is it 32 x 40) and 40 x 60.

We also stock all sizes of glass. On average we cut glass for at least 10 frames per day. That keeps our stacks of glass manageable.

If a frame needs 40 x 60 we go with UV Acrylic.
 
Less carries: 11x14, 14x18, 16x20, 18x24, 20x24,
22x28, 24x36,26x32, 32x40, and sometimes 36x48,40x50, 40x60.

wow, check that out. I'll see if I can get my hands on 8x10, 9x12,12x16, 24x30
 
The glass business is getting more-and-more competitive. The prices I'm seeing are not much different than what I was paying 20 years ago, and the product is generally better.

I think I'll tell my vendors that, if they really want my glass business, they need to carry CC, my default glazing, in something smaller than 16x20. I'm sick of cutting 12x16 glass out of 16x20 and ending up with a bunch of 8x16 pieces.

(I'm not sure if I really have that much pull, so it would be helpful if all of you that feel the same way would talk to your vendors as well.)

With a coated glass like CC, I leave it in the original boxes in individual compartments of a heavy plywood storage unit.
 
I'll check it out today, but I don't think the vendors here carry most of the sizes available in Conservation Clear.
 
Don Mar and Larson (at least in NE) both carry TV in all sizes.
 
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