Hi everyone. Long ago I used to post as AnnE; I stopped glassing for several years as I needed to make real money, lol, and went back to corporate world. Now I am moving from a condo to a house and have room for the glass in the house, so can eliminate the studio space I rent. But, that means moving all the glass I have acquired over the years. I'm not worried about smaller pieces – it will be heavy, but they are relatively safe from breakage. Moving the larger ones is a bit more tricky. When I would buy it, I'd move it carefully in a rented van, laid flat. But I never bought more than 5-10 sheets at a time. Now I need to move about 40 full size sheets in various sizes – Spectrum to Kokomo to Bullseye.
Someone suggested I make a half a-frame to put in a van. I am NOT a carpenter by any means and haven't a clue what one would look like. Does this seem reasonable to do? My husband is relatively handy, but I wouldn't even know what to tell him. A picture would be great if anyone has one like this.
Any other ideas are welcome. I could just make 4 or so trips and lay them flat as I used to, I suppose, as I borrowed my friend's station wagon for the week and the new house is only 5 miles from the studio from which it all has to be moved. Gotta love moving in the north during December! Silly me.
It was nice to see several names I remember from the past. Hope everyone is having a great time glassing.
you can buy a crate from bullseye, but they're pretty easy to build. a couple of spare pallettes from behind the grocery store or home depot, a handful of screws, and some cross bracing would work.
do you have any house construction going on near you? stop by at quitting time with a six pack and a picture or diagram and they can probably bang one out in about 10 minutes out of scrap lumber.
Great ideas – I called every SG store in the city – all have a-frames in their trucks, so couldn't sell or rent a container. I ended up having to do it more quickly than I intended, so couldn't build anything myself (which all the stores recommended). There's no construction going on anywhere around here that I know of, so know one even to ask.
I ended up taking the glass out of the heavy wood container that holds it – I have two of these, one for smaller pieces and one for full sheets. Then I sandwiched the full sheets in between the two wooden containers. I had other items on the sides so that nothing could move. The glass was perfectly upright with sheets of paper between them.
Every piece made it! There were only about 40 full sheets, but I was thrilled not to lose any.
The small pieces were in small crates – only one piece cracked (bad packing in that one on my part). I haven't move the medium size ones yet, but there aren't many so I should have success just laying them flat on plywood in short piles.
The best part is that I'll have the glass in my house and will be able to work on small personal projects whenever I want. Yippee.
Great ideas – I called every SG store in the city – all have a-frames in their trucks, so couldn't sell or rent a container.
Yes. That would be the case. If the stained glass store picks up from the distributor, the wooden glass cases would be at the distributors. That's where we borrowed ours. We'd not have crates to loan out either. The memory is going.
……………. there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worthwhile doing as simply messing about in boats.
On the other hand, I sometimes have crates that I want to get rid of. I have given quite a few to customers. I'm not close enough to go to the distributer and pick up glass, so it is shipped to me. I am also too far away to return the crates to the distributer for the $15 they will pay. It would cost more than that to get the crate back to them. So sometimes they build up here.
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