framing 150 baseball cards????

[FramerBill]

A customer came in with 150 baseball cards! not collector items, just plain old cards. he wants to mount them so that you can see both sides of the card. the customer would like to have one opening with them lined up next to eachother. The only thing we can come up with is placing the pictures on laminate and covering it up with another piece of laminate, thus "encapsulating" it in laminate, if that makes sense. another way is to do a 13x13 grid and hinging each one in its own opening. Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated!!

[FrameMakers]

You could use small clear corners attached to a piece of mylar. This way if any do become valuable the won't be harmed.

[Jim Miller]

Here's an idea:

Fold pieces of clear film into a "V" shape as tall as the cards, and as long as your window opening plus a few inches.

Place the long "V"s horizontally, one above the next, until you have enough area to contain all the cards. Secure their ends between two back-to-back window mats, using 3M #889 double-sided tape.

Next, drop the cards into the "V"s, side-by-side, making row after row full of cards.

Fit the matted, mounted card assembly between two pieces of glass or acrylic, and finish as usual.

If you make the frame so that it can be opened & reclosed, your customer can remove/replace/rearrange the cards at will.

I built a frame like this for a football card collector some time ago. It was to hold about 100 cards, as I recall. He wanted to continue trading them, and some were valuable, so we had to make the mounts easily accessible and non-invasive.

Who's surprised that a clear film answer would come up? :D

[FramerBill]

Jim,
I like your idea, however, will securing the ends keep the cards from shifting or falling out if the picture is inadvertently turned upside down?

[Curly Grumble]

Originally posted by Jim Miller:
Who's surprised that a clear film answer would come up? :D Jim, why not use "CLEAR" silicone? :D

[Jim Miller]

Originally posted by FramerBill:
Jim,
I like your idea, however, will securing the ends keep the cards from shifting or falling out if the picture is inadvertently turned upside down? Nope. By that design, the cards would fall out if the frame is turned upside down.

But that hazard might be easily eliminated. If you fold a short flap on the top of the long "V"s, toward the back, which would enclose the cards on top as well as bottom, that should do the trick. They could still slide sideways, however.

If internal movement is a problem, then maybe Diver Dave's suggestion of corner mounts on clear film would better suit your project.

Jim, why not use "CLEAR" silicone?
AAAARRGGHHHH!! Just thinking about that makes my eyebrows hurt!

On the other hand, maybe you've got something there...

You could put tiny dots of silicone on a sheet of clear acrylic, where the corners of each card would be, and let it dry thoroughly. Then place the cards on the dry-silicone-dotted acrylic, and lay on a facing piece of acrylic. Thye pressure in each corner should be enough to hold the cards in place.

If you've ever seen Frame-Tek's display at trade shows, Greg Fremsted has an example of that mount -- I think it might be a framed dollar bill, with Frame-Tek glass spacers separating it from a mirror background.

[CharlesL]

Get a fat deposit, then tell the customer to let his Mom keep his cards for a while. You KNOW what Mom's do with baseball cards!
....when I think of the cards I started collecting in about 1957, thru 1964....

Sorry for the Frankenthread

[stoney]

Recently, we had a baseball card project. Hundreds of cards, we separated them into American League and National League, then made two matching displays. Using a Diamond shaped frame concept, we did a mat cutting such that the "positions" were around a baseball diamond, pitcher inthe middle, etc., then placed the cards, using small acid-free mylar corners, in the cutouts, on black acid-free foam core, (each cutout was 1/2" bigger than the card).
then, by hinging the back of the completed piece onto the frame, the customer can change cards out, by positions, on a whim. It works well.

stoney

[Merlin Framers]

Stoney.. For us Brits who do not understand Baseball. (Yea I know, we must be sad), that description is a little confusing...
Do you have any photos that you could post on TG