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Tommy P
January 10th, 2006, 12:07 PM
Customer calls with problem. I go to her house and pick up unsatisfactory frame job done by some other shop.

Bring this monster back to my place. It's a large photo (26" x 81") thats been hinged/ATG taped for mounting. If you can call that mounting. Of course it looks rippled and there is the customers gripe. Other shop says they can't dry mount anything that big..yadda, yadda, yadda. I tell her I can get that done. So now this thing is mine to play with...

What gets me is that it has glass and not plexi. Besides scaring the **** out of me handling it I wonder where you get a piece this big other than from a local glass company. Isn't the biggest sheets we can buy from our suppliers like 40 x 60?

And it has a middle support bar in the outside back of the frame. I like that but do not recognize. Does any one know who makes this and where I can buy? It concists of a metal channel that has two ends with screws. The name ALBIN is stamped on one of the ends.

JohnR
January 10th, 2006, 12:37 PM
Tom,
How thick is the glass? Theoretically, glass can come off the float line in unlimited lengths, but only as wide as the line 6-8 feet perhaps? If it is not a framing grade, UV and such, they probably got it locally. Because it is not too wide it is probably okay, but I’d still recommend plexi. I bet that long glass flexes like crazy!

I don’t know about the brace other than “Albin” made it (sorry about that). ;)
John

preservator
January 10th, 2006, 01:03 PM
You can look in the ads in the back pages of PFM,
that Albin system has been shown there, in the past.


Hugh

Greg Fremstad
January 10th, 2006, 01:07 PM
Call Steve or Donna Albin at 1-800-225-6821 Pacific time
Albin Products in Los Altos Calif. Nice folks - help start the PPFA.

Lots of neat products for framers.

Tim Hayes.
January 10th, 2006, 02:02 PM
Albin Products website (http://albinproducts.com/)

Tommy P
January 10th, 2006, 04:15 PM
They were right under my nose. I've been using EaselMates for some time!

Thanks graemlins/thumbsup.gif

Patrick Leeland
January 10th, 2006, 06:15 PM
They have neat easel back things, but what is the seal with the mat smacker? That cracks me up

Patrick Leeland