GLASS & DUST

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Jeanette

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Making shadow boxes 20x20 up to 44x44". Double glass in front (this keeps the paper flat), paper with burned holes sticked between glasses (on one glass only), foamcore in background.

Anyone know the way to make it without any dust in the space between glasses or inside the box.

Once the art (paper) is sticked on the glass it is difficult to clean around and not to touch the art. Also after cleaning the glass with art I clean the second glass and during that time the first one pick the dust...

This is even and bigger problem with larger works (as 44x44") where I use aclylic.
 
I've read it a few times, but don't really understand what you are doing?
Do you mean that you mount the art on glass and then put glass on top as well? With glass showing around?

Just curious as I can't picture it in my head.
 
Sounds like you're sandwiching the artwork in glass. But keeping dust out is universal:

  • Work in the morning in your shop before dust has been stirred up from bustling around.
  • Use compressed air to blow dust away during every part of fitting.
  • Acrylic can be static de-charged by using a anti-static brush, and certain cleaners.
 
Besides fitting in the morning I often will mist the area to help keep dust down.
 
HEPA filter to get as much dust out of the air as possible. After getting it clean seal the glasses together with frame sealing tape.

Good luck.
 
Sorry for confusion...

It is a shadow-box.
A paper with burned holes is the arwork.
The paper is between two glasses (sandwich) to make it flat and is sticked to one glass only not to slide-down.
Two the same glasses are in front of the shadow-box, as normally.
The background in that shadow-box is foamcore (around 1" behind the glasses) on which paper cast the shadow and make 3-D impression.

The customer complain if find several dots of dust.

How to clean glass, for once assembled it is very difficult to re-clean.
 
Fletcher has/had a lite holder that was an accordian shaped item that the glass could be put on to clean.

After cleaning both lites of glass i would seal them together to keep dust out.
 
A burned piece of paper is brittle and will continue to flake. I don't see how you can get around a few black flecks showing up in the package. Your customer should understand that the art will continue to shed. I always have to prep my customers when they bring in things like that or paintings on calf skin hide, they just shed.
 
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