I wrestled with this for years. Years I say... I bought racks, cabinets, twin racks and wound up selling them all. Total Goldie locks syndrome as everything I saw or bought was always "almost" right for me, but left something lacking that my OCD just couldn't get past.
Being a woodworking hobbyist, I decided to take on the task of building my own rack, and I've not looked back once since as what I made was exactly what I saw on my eyelids while falling asleep at night. I started with the first rack pictured, which holds 104 briars, but although I accounted for "what" I wanted, I unfortunately hadn't looked down the road a ways at the frequency of my pipe purchasing habit. ...and then there was the "where do I put my pipe weed" dilemma...
Fast forward to a hell of an undertaking and I built the updated rack and matching tobacco cabinet base and spend my evenings gazing upon it. My handler also admires it and appreciates how I took a pipe habit and turned it into an attractive conversational piece in our barroom... This rack has 192 capacity, which I've filled at this point, but that is ok - it does get to a point of being over the top, even from starting out as over the top, and those pipes go into a small shelf pipe rack in the same room.
Maybe some day, I'll press the 104 pipe rack back into service, but for now, it remains in idle storage... Anyhow, I hope this gives someone an idea to solve this awful affliction from which we all suffer...
Cheers.
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