A 24x18 shadowbox from the new guy!

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jiarby

jiarby

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Here is a shadowbox we are working on this week to hold police badges/paches/medals for a retiring detective.

Sending him this preview picture after we cut the mats sold him on the Tru_View Museum Glass for this job! We'll try this "upsell" method more often!

When it is done we'll repost with the finished job with the good glass.

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Looks good, jiarby! Welcome to the "G".

:thumbsup:

Please do post a pic of the finished product when you can.

Dave Makielski
 
Welcome Jiarby!

Hope you don't mind a bit of constructive criticism.

With multiple apertures I always leave at LEAST twice as much 'around' as I do 'between' IOW if the space between each aperture is one and a half inches, I'd make the outside mat margin 3" min.

With this particular layout, the centre of the 3 portrait apertures is smaller than the ones each side of it. I'd centralise it to those and make the title aperture lower than all three and I'd bottom weight the mat to take that title aperture.

Actually, I'd put the landscape aperture at the bottom too - not the top.
 
Nah! I don't mind constructive criticism at all! ten sets of eyeballs sometimes sees alot more than one. I sometimes get "design tunnel vision" and can't see past my original wonderful idea.

In this case, the design was mostly dictated by the customer, and his budget. He brought in a .jpg of one of his buddie's shadowboxes with this vertical layout and that's what he wanted. The size was mostly a budget concession. It is 18x24, and he wanted "as big as possible".

Here's how it finished up... Love that museum glass! (except for when it is all put together and then I find a big greasy finger print on the corner...inside corner, that is!)
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Good job Jarby. (Timely too)

I'm beginning 2 shadowboxes for a new resident to our town. He's a retired detective from Connecticut. The larger box will contain his 30 years of badges, pins, photos, etc. from his 20 years as a police officer. The smaller box will represent his 10 years as a detective. Colors are navy and gold.

BTW, welcome to TG!

Janet Lowry
 
Thanks, Janet...

As you know, the picture doesn't really do it justice! I was not in love with this moulding (from CMI)... it was too deep, 3". A 2" deep one would have worked better.

The customer just came in and picked it up.. he loved it and took a stack of business cards to pass out!

Hope your boxes turn out nice! The 30 piece one sounds like alot of material.
What are you going to mount them with?
 
Got a question for ya. Do they really wear their Sergeant strips like that? Normally it is the other way around. I am just curious because I have never seen anyone wear their stripes that way.

dave.
 
I guess they do!

When he was in the shop doing the layout I asked about the stripes orientation and he couldn't remember either ! It has been many years since he was a sergeant

So, he whipped out his cell phone and called a sergeant and asked...the told him it was pointy side down. !

The customer is always right!
 
I think it looks great! I hope someone will do something like that if I ever get to retire, maybe with my exacto knives and magic erasers set on a background of brown kraft paper!
 
Yeah, that layout is awesome. That surprises me about the orientation of the stripes. I have NEVER seen anyone do it that way. Like you said "The customer is always right". As long as he's happy....

It makes me pause now, since I would have ###-U-ME-d that they go the other way, I would have been wrong. Gotta ask all the questions, even the ones that seem obvious.

dave.
 
The last medal-and-patch project I did (rush job, naturally), I asked the man-in-uniform tha brought it in if he was sure they "went that way". He said "Absolutely, yes". So I did it "that way". A different man came in to pick it up and said it was "wrong-what-was-he-thinking?". He brought it back the next day to have me re-arrange 4, replace one, and turn another one right-side up.

I guess it depends which customer you ask, eh?
 
All patches should have a printing on the back with "This way up ^ " written on em. There are plenty of Army patches that have unit designs that are circles, and you never know which way they go.

dave.
 
DLB said:
Got a question for ya. Do they really wear their Sergeant strips like that? Normally it is the other way around. I am just curious because I have never seen anyone wear their stripes that way.

dave.
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I recently did extensive research on this very subject, trying to avoid looking like an idiot to the client who had told me when he placed the order which way they point. Just googling reveals that there are indeed departments/municipalities/units that wear them pointing down. Pointing up is more common, but down is definitely possible. I ended up calling his department instead of calling him. (In this case up was the right answer).
 
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