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Ron Eggers

Ron Eggers

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I have nearly run out of discontinued matboard to use as slip sheets for the CMC. I also do a "test mat" before I cut an elaborate mat on the Mat Maestro (the only kind it pays to cut on it,) so I go through a lot of "scrap" matboard.

I just got in a case of Crescent flawboard from one of my vendors. For those who haven't used it, flawboard is matboard "seconds." It might be slightly damaged, but it's normally very usable for many applications. Normally, it's color-striped so you're not tempted to cut mats out of it, or mix it in with regular matboard. And it's cheap.

My vendor listed regular flawboard and acid-free flawboard. The CMC doesn't care, so I ordered 25 sheets of regular.

2 of the 25 were 902 yellow regular paper mats, which is pretty-much what I'd expect. 12 were one of the Crescent rags and the remaining 11 were Whitecor Basics, but mounted on what appears to be a 6-ply pebble board. These were not so much flaw board as bizarro board. I wonder how many sheets of THAT they made. And, oh, it's bright red.

I may have to order a case of "acid-free" flawboard just to see what comes in THAT grab-bag.
 
The last batch of flawboard I ordered had 30 sheets of that TruVue board that looks like a basketball (you know kind of pebbled) - Blue, the rest were this green marbled thing?

Kind of fun to see what shows up.
 
Well isn't that just a kick in the pants?

I guess I'll just have to keep an eye on my Bainbridge discontinued lists. That's where I HAD been getting my slipsheets (from my own bins.)

[ 11-12-2003, 07:44 PM: Message edited by: Ron Eggers ]
 
ok...stupid question...If you have matboard in stock that has been discontinued by the manufacturer, why wouldn't you use it in a frame package rather than using it as a slip sheet?
 
Originally posted by What?:
ok...stupid question...If you have matboard in stock that has been discontinued by the manufacturer, why wouldn't you use it in a frame package rather than using it as a slip sheet?
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If you don't have a whole sheet, you pull the sample, so you don't accidentally sell a bigger piece than you have. Since you don't have the sample out front, you are never going to sell the sheet you have in back.

I wonder if bizarro board is what you get when you make paper from snotwood?
 
Hanna nailed it, but I'll go a step further.

When I hear that a matboard has been discontinued, I pull the sample, remove the mat from my POS and pull any remaining stock, no matter how many sheets I have.

That might seem wasteful, but when was the last time you saw me on The Grumble frantically searching for a piece of discontinued mat to fill an order?

You can bet if you have five sheets in stock, you'll sell six to somebody.

I also pulled, in the past year, most of my black-core boards and any remaining decorative mats, including a substantial stock of Crescent Specialty mats.

That makes room for something current.

Edit: One more point. You can bet if you sell a discontinued mat - even one you have in stock - that customer will come back in six months and want to match it.

[ 11-13-2003, 12:01 PM: Message edited by: Ron Eggers ]
 
I don't know how many distributors carry this-- but we get mat board made by Queen City Paper Company for $2.99 per sheet. We use them only for CMC slip sheets.
 
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