Gaffer tape!!!!!
Posted: Mon 05 Jul, 2010 6:18 pm
ok so today a client brings in an original watercolour framed etc
says she wants to reframe doesnt like the frame
so on first glance i see the mount has brown edges, i guess from cream core board etc
then i notice the actual print has slipped at one end away from the mount and can clearly see gaffer tape which has been used to stick the image to the window mount
so i talk the client into re mounting first to see what it looks like then change the frame if she wants later
so anyway having taken the thing out of the frame i find no barrier board in the back and the print is stuck on 3 sides with gaffertape to the window mount and has mdf in the back.
anyway my question is
am i best just cutting away the worst of the gaffer tape, and leaving some where its stuckk welll to the paper, or trying to remove
the client tells me she didnt spend a huge ammount on the piece but there again i dont want to do any damage either
she told me the artist framed it themselves.
says she wants to reframe doesnt like the frame
so on first glance i see the mount has brown edges, i guess from cream core board etc
then i notice the actual print has slipped at one end away from the mount and can clearly see gaffer tape which has been used to stick the image to the window mount
so i talk the client into re mounting first to see what it looks like then change the frame if she wants later
so anyway having taken the thing out of the frame i find no barrier board in the back and the print is stuck on 3 sides with gaffertape to the window mount and has mdf in the back.
anyway my question is
am i best just cutting away the worst of the gaffer tape, and leaving some where its stuckk welll to the paper, or trying to remove
the client tells me she didnt spend a huge ammount on the piece but there again i dont want to do any damage either
she told me the artist framed it themselves.