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One of the main advantages to collecting shots is that they take up
relatively little space and hence they don't require that you
build an addition to the house or take over the entire basement
just to accommodate them -- at least not until your
collection hits the 5,000 mark. The main disadvantage is
that they're fragile dust magnets and if left untended on an
open shelf or bar, they soon become furry and grimy. Thus
my personal preference is to put them on display in a closed
cabinet where they are both protected from accidental assault by
family, friends, or pets and they also don't require frequent
washing to remove the dust (although for reasons that are
unclear to me, they still get cloudy over time). Thus, one
simple solution is to arm-wrestle your spouse for space in the
curio cabinet alongside the Hummels and Franklin Mint figurines
or you can buy or make a dedicated case. Here's some
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Custom
Displays makes a display case that is reasonably priced,
well-crafted and sturdy. The proportions are perfect in
terms of pleasing the eye, although it is a tad too thin to accommodate
the fatter glasses. The cases come in a variety of
finishes and 16 velvet backgrounds are available so that there
us a good chance of the case blending perfectly with the orange
shag carpet in the basement. A cleverly designed Plexi
front keeps the glasses safely dust-free. |
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"18"x24"
shot glass display comes with enough glass shelves to let you
display at least 45 glasses. Shelves are 2" wide - case
comes with 4 shelves allowing up to 5 display rows" $79.95
+ shipping>. |
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Make your own - the following is how shotglass.org
Webmaster Mark Rauschkolb makes shelving units for his
glasses. He should definitely know how to get this right -
he has >9,000 of them (a case [excuse the pun] of terminal
glass-lust). One may question his sanity but not his
carpentry skills:
"I make my shelves out of 1x3 lumber (not 1x3 furring
strips which are made from a lower quality of wood). Most large
lumber yards or "home centers" sell pre-cut lengths of
wood such as Poplar. They come in four foot lengths, so I
decided that I could build a 4 foot wide shelf unit and only
need to make one cut (to make the sides -- If they have 2 foot
pieces, you do not even need to make one cut!). A 1x3 piece of
lumber is 3/4 of an inch thick, and most "standard"
shotglasses will fit on a shelf that is 2 1/4 inches high (if
you do not like to measure, an audio cassette box can be used as
a spacer). With 10 four foot sections of wood you can build a
unit that has eight shelves, each of which is 49 1/2 inches wide
and 24 inches high (If you only adjust the height of one shelf,
it would have to be only 1 1/2 inches high which is very small
-- it would be better to adjust two shelves, one to 2 inches and
one to 1 and 3/4 inches) or with 9 boards you can get a unit
with seven shelves, and one shelf would be 4 1/5 inches tall,
which will hold Hard Rock and other tall glasses. To mount the
unit on a wall, I put two large (10d) nails into wall studs and
rest the second or third shelf from the top on those nails. Each
shelf will hold about 25 glasses, so each unit will hold between
175 and 200 glasses."
(taken verbatim from shotglass.org) |
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