Displaying a glass panel with images

[Framegirl]

Hi there

I wondered whether anyone could help me with an object I am being brought to frame. It is a glass panel with images in it - approx 80cm by 80cm and 6mm thick.

The client would like it in a box frame with white mount board in the background.

What I need help with is how to invisibly attach the glass to the mount board in a way that it is not going to fall off.

Many thanks for any help.

Frame Girl

[simoonez]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but if it's in a box frame can't the mount board be pinned into the back like any standard frame?

[Framegirl]

Hi there

I am probably not explaining it very well, but this issue is - how do I attach the glass panel (the item that needs to be displayed) to the mount board? I maybe could glue it on but then I would be concerned as to how well it would stick and whether the glue would damage the object?

Do you see what I mean?

Thanks

[IFGL]

can you make a sink mount from some thick mount card?

[Roboframer]

I'm guessing this is to be float mounted - spaced away from the frame itself? Otherwise you'd just frame it and it wouldn't need fixing to the backing.

You could frame it in a small frame and stick that frame to the backing, which might defeat the object slightly - might as well close frame it in a much wider frame or you could use the metal corners you can get for fixing mirrors to the wall.

http://www.lionpic.co.uk/product/Mirror ... 800,0.aspx



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[prospero]

If it has to be floated I would go with Robo's suggestion and put it in a minimal frame. You can get aluminium frames with around a 4mm face but with deep sides which would lift the image away from the back. Use self-tapping screws to fix it though the back board. A wood moulding would be more bulky but could look good if it matched the outer frame.

Otherwise you would have to make formed rods which would be very fiddly and you risk chipping the edges.

[Jamesnkr]

This is like a stained glass window?

Have you thought about lighting it from behind? LED lights can be great for that.

So, in an ideal world, take it to a stained glass specialist who will lead it into some plain glass, and then this sits near the glazing glass, with the box frame behind with the lighting behind it? Yes, this will cost...

What about sandwiching the glass between two bits of mountboard (with a third sheet the thickness of the board making up the sandwich). That way you don't have to glue the glass at all.

Actually, I've just seen how big it is (large; so the above ideas aren't going to work, I had something small in mind). But they could be amended. Sandwich it between two sheets of MDF that have a sight hole 8mm smaller than the 'picture' to give you the 'rebate' that will support the 'picture' on both sides, with a 6mm MDF sheet sandwiched between them as the filler (make that the 'same' size as the 'picture'). To the extent a border is required (like a traditional 'mount'), the MDF provides that by being wider than the 'picture'. Paint the MDF the same colour as your rebates. And as for the illumination, a sheet of frosted glass a couple of inches behind the 'picture' with lighting behind. Rose & Hollis have some very deep box sections, and you can rout additional rebates in.

And if it does want white mountboard flush behind it, then that makes life even easier.

What a fun project! I think I'm going to have to buy myself a stained glass window just to do this...

And if the box is very deep then there would be room for batteries on the back of the frame, LED lights use very little power. And a discreet switch somewhere; so no need for cabling.