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    Default Plier stand. How do you store them?

    Atm i use a pampered chef utensil stand that rotates. Its quite big in diameter and gets on my nerves!
    Just got back from Crete and went into a jewellery shop cos i saw the mini studio set up in the corner...(was in there like a shot!)
    He had a metal rod the full length of the desk stood on stands that held loads of pliers.
    What do you use and would recommend?
    Following on from a previously post on what we take with us when away... Only made one item, a wired leaf on the plane and drank beer, wine and anything else the rest of the time!!!


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    Plier stands will drive you mad, as your favourite pliers will be forever falling off and landing out of sight behind them.

    I have two perspex A-shaped ones and they definitely add to my stress levels.

    The school I attend part time has rails screwed onto the edges of the benches. People brush against them to create a plier hail storm.

    And whatever you do, avoid magnetic tool holders or you will get clusters of magnetised tools to torment you.

    Perhaps these from Cookson are the answer? Dennis.
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    I’ve always had them in my favourite mugs, you can get a lot of pliers round the edge of a mug! I have a few full of needle files and small tools, tweezers and they are also memories of different times. My husband made me a rack and as Dennis said they endlessly fall off and actually take up far too much room so uts relegated under the bench now

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    I have one of the wooden ones from Cooksons that Dennis posted.
    It works ok except for one pair of pliers that have a wider handle and don't fit in properly.

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    You've probably got more pliers than I have but similar to the mug idea I'm a sucker for tins. My pliers hang around the edge of a tin, and I've got other bits and bobs inside like binding wire. I'm a total sucker for inexpensive storage so keep every cute tin (tweezers and picks are in a free tin that came with a cereal, solder pallions are in little tins etc) and today I tried to get creative and couldn't so sorted out my burs by making holes in the lid of a tub and slotting them in, writing the size next to them. And I keep my wire and sheet in the £1 CD case you can see here.

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