All about Stained Glass Shipping

Before shipping a glass piece you must first protect it by using a crate. To offer adequate protection, the crate must fit the glass piece. If you make a custom crate for every glass piece that you intend to ship, you will notice that shipping glass pieces across country becomes a lot easier. These creates will allow you to ship your small windows by the means of regular delivery service such as FedEx or UPS.

 

 

So, you have to put your stained glass on a table, different than the one you’re going to use to make the crate. Then, place some 1 inch thick foam insulation on your table. Its color can be blue or pink depending on what kind of foam you buy.

 

Place the panel on the insulation and cut around it using a special knife. Make sure you cut exactly on the age because there shouldn’t be any foam hanging by the edge. Then slide the foam’s cut line over the table’s edge and break down the foam by pushing it down.

 

Use the first piece as a pattern to cut the next foam pieces at the exact same dimensions.

 

Then, using a 2/4 as a pattern you must cut 4 foam filler pieces. It should look as a sandwich mad of foam, glass and again foam.

 

The next step involves taking the long foam pieces and cutting them to the sign’s length. Stand up a 2/4 along the edge and score a cut line from the sign’s ending.

Next we take the long pieces and cut them to the length of the sign and set one on each side of the sign. Then we stand up a two by four along the long edge and mark a cut line a two by four width from the end of the sign. Cut the two by four to have the width of a saw blade so that the foam will remain tight in the box.

 

Put a piece of foam on top of the stack to raise it to the height of the 2/4 frame. Pull together the 2/4 using a clamp. You mustn’t apply too much pressure on the clamp because it will make the crate to tight and it could damage you’re stained glass design.

 

Check if the crate’s top is even with the frameworks, and add a few foam layers on top of it. The crate’s lid will put a small amount of pressure when it will be set.

The shipping companies have a good manipulating system for sensitive objects such as stained glass and electronics. It costs a few times more then regular carrier but it definitely worth all the money.

All about Stained Glass Shipping

Before shipping a glass piece you must first protect it by using a crate. To offer adequate protection, the crate must fit the glass piece. If you make a custom crate for every glass piece that you intend to ship, you will notice that shipping glass pieces across country becomes a lot easier. These creates will allow you to ship your small windows by the means of regular delivery service such as FedEx or UPS.

 

So, you have to put your stained glass on a table, different than the one you’re going to use to make the crate. Then, place some 1 inch thick foam insulation on your table. Its color can be blue or pink depending on what kind of foam you buy.

 

Place the panel on the insulation and cut around it using a special knife. Make sure you cut exactly on the age because there shouldn’t be any foam hanging by the edge. Then slide the foam’s cut line over the table’s edge and break down the foam by pushing it down. Use the first piece as a pattern to cut the next foam pieces at the exact same dimensions.

 

Then, using a 2/4 as a pattern you must cut 4 foam filler pieces. It should look as a sandwich mad of foam, glass and again foam.

 

The next step involves taking the long foam pieces and cutting them to the sign’s length. Stand up a 2/4 along the edge and score a cut line from the sign’s ending.

Next we take the long pieces and cut them to the length of the sign and set one on each side of the sign. Then we stand up a two by four along the long edge and mark a cut line a two by four width from the end of the sign. Cut the two by four to have the width of a saw blade so that the foam will remain tight in the box.

 

Put a piece of foam on top of the stack to raise it to the height of the 2/4 frame. Pull together the 2/4 using a clamp. You mustn’t apply too much pressure on the clamp because it will make the crate to tight and it could damage you’re stained glass design.

 

Check if the crate’s top is even with the frameworks, and add a few foam layers on top of it. The crate’s lid will put a small amount of pressure when it will be set.

The shipping companies have a good manipulating system for sensitive objects such as stained glass and electronics. It costs a few times more then regular carrier but it definitely worth all the money.