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Jumbo Conservation Mountboard

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Hi, I have some very large prints to frame (print size1096x1375mm + border) and I'm looking for Jumbo Conservation Mountboards but ideal with a grey face paper, can anybody recommend anything, please?
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Concidentally first job on my to do list is try and find a jumbo grey board...spent a while looking on Friday buy couldn't find anything.
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Yes, I've had a good look about but can't find anything.
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Crescent do a very dark grey (Newcastle 81123) and a very light one (Inverness 81121) in 40" x 60" (1020x1520mm) jumbo size museum board, but not sure if wessex hold stock of them.

These are still not big enough for your print size 1096x1375 excluding border... Crescent also do a 1220x1830 and 1220x2440 but only in white...
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Can you cut it once you get it? :roll:

One way of making big mounts without faffing about with big sheets is to use a plain wood profile
and mitre it. Rose&Hollis do a 70mm flat with a bevel. It's good and thick - about 8mm.
You do have to paint it though but at least you have an infinite choice of colours. :D
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That's a wise point from Prospero! forget to say about that :Slap:

super big mounts I do with a hand cutter (logan I think) and a keencut 72" straight edge.

Splicing boards together is a good solution if no other is available, as you can use standard size boards in all the colours
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Or use fabric stretched over mount board. Always looks good.
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Thank you Richard, white is the last colour wanted but the Crescent size is perfect just shame about the lack of colours.

Even more fun, its a double mount :giggle:

Prospero I was thinking about doing that, the only problem is sometimes on painted stuff when it's touching the coated glasses I get funny little marks. Might just the paint I use or not letting it cure enough.

I've never done fabric stretched over mount board, what does that look like squashed against the glass?
I did think about wrapping a slip, mitre and join.
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Framie wrote:what does that look like squashed against the glass?
Like fabric behind a piece of glass?! If you don't believe me, press a beer glass up against your shirt! Anyway, it looks fine.
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Luckily my job is float mounted, annoyingly it's two panels with a gap in the middle, so the full splice will be on show, tempted to try the fabric, think that will look really good.
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Framie wrote:

Prospero I was thinking about doing that, the only problem is sometimes on painted stuff when it's touching the coated glasses I get funny little marks. Might just the paint I use or not letting it cure enough.
Yes you are absitively right. But I have a cunning plan....

When do them I run a thin strip of linen tape around the outside of the 'mount' - no wider than the rebate lip.
This lifts the glass off a smidge and no optical artefacts. Sometimes I use some 2-ply board with ds tape the same
way when more lift is needed.
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That sounds like a good idea, thank you.
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Re: Jumbo Conservation Mountboard

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Like Prospero, for painted slips that come into contact with glass, I use strips of board or barrier card and double sided tape to raise the glass away from the paint surface.
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