CONSUMER ALERT Beware Bainbridge Garnet 8528

[Framar]

Perfect color for two customer jobs - cut three mats (four openings) altogether from one board and even with brand new fresh razor sharp Hendrixson blade the bevels tore like I was an arteest trying to cut them with a dull butter knife.

I recut, sanded, filed, and touched up both the edge and the bevel with colored pencils.

Way worse than any of those soft Crescent whites we were all complaining about.

Grrrrr.....

Beware! Beware!

 

[Hired Help]

Oh, great.

Two oversize mats (B8528L) arrived in for a 10 piece project due in January.

Could be hair pulling next week.

Clive.

 

[Framar]

Oh Clive, I will say a little prayer for you and your oversize matboard.

Good luck and Happy New Year, eh?

 

[Mike Labbe]

Hopefully its just an isolated bad sheet or batch, not the entire color everywhere

 

[Framar]

Oh let us hope it is a problem with limited boards. It is such a great color!

 

[janetj1968]

It's one of the few Bainbridge boards that will also peel if you put ATG on the top....

 

[Ylva]

Oh, great.

Two oversize mats (B8528L) arrived in for a 10 piece project due in January.

Could be hair pulling next week.

Clive.

Good luck! I'd start cutting now...so you have time for the replacement(s) if needed.....

 

[Rick Granick]

Yes, that board is an odd character. It is a great color but, in addition to the properties already mentioned, the red rubs off on other boards or on your hands if you aren't careful. So, be careful.
Rick

 

[Artrageous]

The fraying problem with that particular matboard has been around for over 2 years. I told all my customers to pull the sample from their racks and toss them away.

 

[nikfrz]

Must not be a popular color here. Thanks for the heads up. Going into the trash when I get back.

 

[Framar]

I guess I will toss the sample - but I probably have two more mats to do to match two of the ones I did already (and I have board left over, tra la tra la!).

It is a perfect match for the colors in the wedding outfits and flowers. Dang!

I have never once encountered any problems in Bainbridge boards. And the ATG pulls off almost all of the colored part of the surface paper.

Buh-bye!

 

[MitchelC]

I ran into this problem a couple of weeks ago. I replaced Bainbridge Garnet #8528 with Artique Cinnabar #A4805. (Crescent #1558 is also the same, but it would probably be worse than Bainbridge Garnet #8528!)