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The shelf

By Dwight Davis, Founder

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No steel and no tins at all. Which is the one format this craft traditionally uses.

What is here

1,026 rows: 525 containers and 501 closures. 5 mL to 500 mL with a median of 118, and nothing above half a litre.

Which is the right scale

Instrument care works in small quantities and the shelf matches it. 207 containers at 60 mL or under and 390 at 120 or under.

By format, against the archetype

287 bottles and 224 jars. store-small-dry says wide mouth, and slightly more than half this shelf is a narrow one.

By material

266 PET, 119 glass, 78 PP and 62 HDPE. No steel and no tins, which is the absence that matters most here.

Why the missing tin matters

Rosin and cork grease are traditionally sold in small screw tins, and a tin is tough, shallow, and lives in an instrument case without being a hazard when dropped.

And why glass is the wrong substitute

119 glass containers, none of which should go in a case that gets carried on a bus and put down on a stage. PET or PP is the right compromise.

Clear is a minority

147 clear against 112 white and 82 amber. For a craft that sorts reeds by strength and strings by gauge, clear should dominate and does not.

The small bottle end is well served

96 containers at the 20-410 neck and 43 dropper assemblies. For a repair shop decanting valve oil that is a genuine and well matched offering.

And the player end is not

Reed cases, mouthpiece pouches and string sleeves are purpose-made products and we make none of them. Worth saying at the start of a conversation.

How to shop it

Bulk and bench, yes. Case and player, buy elsewhere. For the parts we do serve: small, PET or PP, clear, lined lid.

References

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. The instrument care shelf is 1,026 rows: 525 containers and 501 closures. 5 mL to 500 mL with a median of 118; 30 containers at 15 mL or under, 100 at 30 or under, 207 at 60 or under, 390 at 120 or under. 266 PET, 119 glass, 78 PP, 62 HDPE, and no steel or tins at all. 287 bottles, 224 jars, 12 tubs and pails, 2 tubes. 147 clear, 112 white, 82 amber, 51 blue, 45 natural, 37 black. Closures: 345 continuous thread, 43 dropper assemblies, 27 dome lids, 19 lug and twist, 16 flip top, 14 phenolic, 11 liners and sealing discs, 6 dropper tips and caps, 6 round tubs. Necks: 96 at 20-410, 59 at 24-410, 56 at 89-400, 56 at 70-400.
The archetype behind this shelf is store-small-dry: 15 to 500 mL, wide mouth, PP and PET and glass, cold, solid, chunky, scooped, with "small dry parts, wide mouth to get fingers in, clear so you can see what is inside" as its stated reason. It describes the four dry leaves well and the two lubricants not at all, and the shelf is 287 bottles to 224 jars against a wide-mouth rule.
Written from 21 CFR 172.878 and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. Nothing here says a food-contact regulation applies to an instrument lubricant; 172.878 is cited as the published specification for white mineral oil, which is the benchmark a manufacturer can either meet or not. The other four leaves have no governing regulation and this property says so rather than borrowing one.