Jim,
The cases are bonded with UV glue.
I expect we are the only company in Aus to be making anything like this, and if there happens to be anyone else, then I feel it wouldn't be anywhere near as neat as we do.
It has taken maybe a couple of years to refine techniques, make our own equipment and tools, and source the best glue.
You find quite a lot of acrylic cases on the market, but of course after a very short time, like when you wipe dust off for the first time, that dang scratching starts.
Cliff,
Not sure why you can't see my pics, are they appearing now on your browser ?
Mmmmm, yeah I see your dilemma.
Ok, I'm making one now for a golf scenario.
2 golf balls, with a $50 note, and a pic.
The golf balls are going on tees (holes drilled in the top glass on the base to take tees), $50 in a glass sleeve, glued to the floor, and a pic on the floor, a glass plate on top for over the pic with small round bumpers on the 4 corners, so it can be placed wherever the framers customer wishes).
The golf balls and note are going in an arc around the back of the case, and the pic will be on the floor in front.
The framer and I were considering the idea of a mylar envelope with the pic inside, and fix this to the back of the case with a clear thin double sided tape, but decided on the floor option.
Does anyone there supply open back acrylic or glass cases that have a lip on them, that can be framed ?
Maybe that is an option.
We certainly make them in glass (custom sizes) . . . like this
You can probably see the lip around the open back, well this goes in the frame rebate (rabbet), and the case fits through the frame opening to give like a forward projected glass shadow box (that is really not a shadow box
).
Works a charm on items that have a bulk near the edge, and convex glass (where the deepest part is the centre) is just not the best option.
Hey, why not do an open display ?
Find a mannequins head, and just put the cap on and put it on a shelf.
The pic can be framed and hang above it perhaps.
Otherwise, framing it in the traditional shadow box format is just going to be deep, no two ways about it.