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ole wrote:Very nice! I've been thinking about something similar.
Also been wondering about the possible issue of cross-contamination. Now mine is resting in cardboard boxes stacked on top of each other, probably not the best solution either.
If you look around, sometimes you can find yixing jars made the exact size of a puerh tongyalokinh wrote:That would be pretty cool for tong storage
Where have you seen one the size if a tong? I saw one on the web but the company in China won't ship because they are afraid of it breaking. I am looking to get two more Yixing containers about tong size.Exempt wrote:If you look around, sometimes you can find yixing jars made the exact size of a puerh tongyalokinh wrote:That would be pretty cool for tong storage
I believe zhizheng used to sell them for a very reasonable price. I don't know about shipping thoughAllanK wrote:Where have you seen one the size if a tong? I saw one on the web but the company in China won't ship because they are afraid of it breaking. I am looking to get two more Yixing containers about tong size.Exempt wrote:If you look around, sometimes you can find yixing jars made the exact size of a puerh tongyalokinh wrote:That would be pretty cool for tong storage
I had already emailed Zhezhang, he does not like to ship them because he has had problems with them breaking. I am thinking of buying another one of these in six months when I have the money.Exempt wrote:I believe zhizheng used to sell them for a very reasonable price. I don't know about shipping thoughAllanK wrote:Where have you seen one the size if a tong? I saw one on the web but the company in China won't ship because they are afraid of it breaking. I am looking to get two more Yixing containers about tong size.Exempt wrote:If you look around, sometimes you can find yixing jars made the exact size of a puerh tongyalokinh wrote:That would be pretty cool for tong storage
This one was shipped in a big box, inside a bigger box, with enough white styrofoam to float a small boat. There was also lots of bubble wrap and other packaging. It came in a box that had previously held 36 teapot sets from Taiwan, that's the box it shipped in next to the Yixing container. The box was nearly half the size of a refrigerator. It is a great container.Drax wrote:I can understand why... they are so large, they're hard to protect. The ones that I had safely delivered were protected with an incredible amount of padding -- including a thick (4") orange foam mat, not to mention all th eother padding, and the entire thing was encased in two sturdy blue bins that were turned to make a 'box,' and then strapped shut, and the whole thing in the box. Another thing that I think helped was that the interior was also stuffed (in this case, with another container!) but that helped give the walls a bit more sturdiness.
The one that broke in shipping barely had any protection... it really never had a chance. Worst, it created 'shrapnel' that really shredded up the teas that I had ordered with it. Very sad.