Re: mounting/framing pans

[allan fedorak <allan_fedorak@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Denis,

I've been mounting my panorama and other prints onto what we call" Particle
Board" It's just very fine sawdust mixed up with glue and pressed into a very
hard board.They make speaker boxes out of this stuff! It's very stable. I shape
the edges with a router and then blacken the edges with a permanant black felt
marker. I use a cold adhesive from Seal USA to mount the laminated print to the
finished board. Have done 60" this way and no problems. Any lumberyard carries
this product, in 4'x8' sheets, but it might be under a variety of names. I cut
it with a hollowground planer blade in my tablesaw and don't even have to sand
the edges! It doesn't seem to abuse the router bits either when shaping the
edges.

Al

"M. Denis Hill" wrote:

> I recently had a 72" print made from an XPan neg. Then I needed to have it
> made ready for presentation in a hurry. I went to a local framer who does
> good work, but is not cheap. The results were OK, but not spectacular and
> too expensive. This is partly because the print exceeded the size of matte
> board. Of course the frame (aluminum) and plexi were not cheap, either.
>
> Has anyone come up with a way to present large prints that does not end up
> costing out-of-proportion to the cost of the print? In this instance, the
> framing was nearly 4X the cost of the print.
>
> I was wondering about mounting on gatorboard then somehow finishing the
> edges. That, with lamination, should make a nice presentation. But what
> would work for the edges? Any ideas about this or other low-cost mounting
> methods?
>
> M. Denis Hill
> Area 360 Communications
> http://www.area360.com
> 360.678.8351
>
> Have you visited the discussion forums at http://www.colorfulcoupeville.com?