Jumbo Conservation Mountboard
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Jumbo Conservation Mountboard
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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Re: Jumbo Conservation Mountboard
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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Re: Jumbo Conservation Mountboard
Yes, I've had a good look about but can't find anything.
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Re: Jumbo Conservation Mountboard
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...
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?
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.
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.
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Re: Jumbo Conservation Mountboard
That's a wise point from Prospero! forget to say about that
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
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
Re: Jumbo Conservation Mountboard
Or use fabric stretched over mount board. Always looks good.
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Re: Jumbo Conservation Mountboard
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
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.
Even more fun, its a double mount
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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Re: Jumbo Conservation Mountboard
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.Framie wrote:what does that look like squashed against the glass?
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Re: Jumbo Conservation Mountboard
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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Yes you are absitively right. But I have a cunning plan....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.
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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Re: Jumbo Conservation Mountboard
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.