Making My Own Album

Now that I see it it's a very nice tool DJCMHOH, when you talk about it the first time, I tough you make box with excel, I said ..... but this is very interesting and easy to rearrange.

You can even link the cell to another pages with ....

Ok I surrender, I ordered a Vario binder to make some test, and I'm very happy

first no need to turn the pages on the rings to search something, you can flip them like pages of a book






then if you want make some work, you just turn the pages with your hand under, it give you a flat open album ( not the case with posts binders )








And finally the binders look great, I can't wait to have few bookshelf of them ( ok what this guy is doing Ronsonol, heat gun for RC planes monokote, some testors paint and even a pack of Martin guitar stings )






Will definitively look very good ( I just use paint copy and paste, don't even fire photoshop, lol )

Welcome to the darkside, Area66

One thing I do since I have a worldwide collection, I have created coat of arms stickers using craft printable silver foil label sticker paper. Since the Varios have a very granular leatherette feel to the binder, I secure the stickers with a bit of Gorilla Clear Tape. Makes it easy to find what volume I am looking for.

(Apologies for pic quality I am horrible with phone cameras)



Most of the volumes I have made are for my French colonial and post-colonial countries. this pic shows Algeria - Andorra - Benin - Burkina Faso (ex Upper Volta) - Cameroun - Central African Republic (ex Ubangi-Shari) and at right edge, Chad.

DJCMHOH and Area66 - It looks absolutely great with Varios.
Good for you. Someday I hope to take the leap myself also.

Actually it's chris2015 who make me switch when he post an image of his Vario binders fallowing a post on the Royal collection in another tread, so I will redirect my wife to him when she gone ask me how cost those new albums, lol


Blaamand, start slowly with 1 and later 2, just use your stockbook for other thing. We always need stockbook, I purchase 1 every week at post office, 16 pages only, I don,t like the 64 they tears in the spine, and since I'm not careful at all, it's even worst in my hands.

I am going from Vario back to an album for my us modern collection. I have sheets in vario but keeping singles in an album. The only other areas I have collected are Straits Settlements, Malaysia, and some Singapore using Steiner pages.

Al

area

If you're going to use Lighthouse, the Grande leaves have bigger capacity than Vario, and are four-ring.

Geoff

I don't like the size of the Grande and the one I have also have 4 rings, look at the images

I thought you liked larger albums!

I will order a Grande to really fix my idea on it before I order other Vario Classic


Yes I would like to have a 11 x 17 album, but for regular 3 rings binders you purchase at Staples I prefer 1" over 3" , it's less pages to turn and I hate to turn them in rings binders. So the Grande have more pages to turn and the vario pages I have available around are the one who fit the Vario I have. By the way it's Vario Classic the look is better than the regular vario, even better than the Rotary Bar binders.

We have also to keep in mind that I will leave my stamps in my Scott International and place printed pages with quadrille on it in plastic protector and use them like you use a glassine pages separators.

Vario are for special stuff like revenues , Canada centennial, my extensive Hungarian Crown of Stephen series and other stuff.

The disadvantage of the Grande binder is its weight when full. I mainly use them for postcards - they're good for displaying, and they flatten out the cards, which are inclined to curl. I much prefer stamps in albums, so tend to use the Grande leaves for stamps waiting for a slot in an album. In the UK, Grande and Vario are pretty much the same price, so I may as well go for the larger option.

Thema has what seems to be a reissue of a really large Yvert album

http://www.thematimbres.com/PBSCCat...CatID=381719

I worked on this type of page (pre Steiner) when I was into Liberia. I wanted to display both unused and used. Admittedly this layout becomes fairly difficult. I used Excel to make the frames and colored each according to the color of the stamp. Obviously I used clear stock pages either from Vario or CWS out of Canada. Getting the spacing right (vertically) was a pain as I wanted to have it correct when the pages were both put in the binder. I finally really liked the outcome and before I tired of it I was able to accomplish it for 3 different sets. Although when you get the frame layout for one page the others are easier. In addition the unused stamps have a tendency to move in the clear page, as you can see in my photo. As a side note, not about pages, but something I have done to my Scott WW albums is put a piano hinge on the covers. As Scott albums get older, the covers tend to separate from the rib. This eliminates that problem. I have a series of photos on how I did it. If anyone is interested, I'll try to find them. I have had negative comments about their industrial look, but I kind of like it.
Cheers! Wolf-==-

That is a very nice setup method. I like it. Very well done.

If you lick the unused stamps before you put them in the clear pages, they will not move. (just kidding).

Here is a picture of the first 6 pages that I made for Luxembourg. They are single sided and just stitched together to try to make the images fit better here. I like the numbers under the stamps so you do not have to lift them to see the number. A lot of hinged stamps get damaged or pulled loose by looking under them. The Scott International album had stamps from #1 to #144 on first page (double sided) that took me 6 pages to fill out properly (to me).

Jaxom100 - Great pages ! I also think it's cool to keep the catalog numbers visible, in particular for variants like e.g. you have demonstrated with your nice selection of varieties of the first Luxembourg issues. Nice If anything I would suggest to give more space for study of the 1882 issue and it's perfs....