Suggestion How Would You Mount this?

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A customer brought in this piece of art of two dragons. It looks like it's Upson board & was cut out on a jigsaw. There are multiple layers stacked on top of each other, in some places 5 high. The whole thing measures 13 1/2 wide by 22 1/2 in height with a total depth of about 1 1/8. It isn't real heavy but because it is a 3-D cutout normal methods for mounting aren't really an option. It has no value except sentimental and it is getting broken the way he was displaying it, the tail has broken off & you can see where he tried to glue it back together. Since it has "no real value", the tail is broken and needs glued to stay put, the customer was ok with gluing it down to the mat. He has no plans to undo the frame job he just wants it more protected and so he can hang it up on the wall. In a perfect world I would like for it not to be permanent so anybody got any ideas?
 
With the customer's permission, why not mount it on matboard with 1/4" plywood behind and attach with 2 or 3 small screws (one of the screws supporting the broken tail) from behind... countersinking the screws.




Z
 
The piece probably wants overall support, being brittle. You might consider using paste to put it down to a piece of rag 4-ply. If it needs to be removed later, the 4-ply can be peeled away, and the paste largely removed with H2O. Not a perfect solution.

An option would be to pin it in place around the perimeter with stainless steel pins (Cut to length, and/or bent to form an upside-down 'L'), to a piece of 8 ply and frame it as a tabletop piece.

Stainless pins:
http://www.wardrobesupplies.com/categories/sewing/pins/straight-pins
 
05 said:
The piece probably wants overall support, being brittle. You might consider using paste to put it down to a piece of rag 4-ply. If it needs to be removed later, the 4-ply can be peeled away, and the paste largely removed with H2O. Not a perfect solution.

An option would be to pin it in place around the perimeter with stainless steel pins (Cut to length, and/or bent to form an upside-down 'L'), to a piece of 8 ply and frame it as a tabletop piece.

Stainless pins:
http://www.wardrobesupplies.com/categories/sewing/pins/straight-pins
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What kind of paste? Yes paste?
 
One way to mount that item would be to make what I call "fences" of matboard for lateral support, plus two or three thin straps of clear film to keep it from falling forward. Here's a drawing...hope you can read it.
Drawing-Fence Mounts.jpg
 
I would try to support it as much as possible.

How about using polymer clay to form supports. You can shape them to give the most support to the dragons. Those supports could be glued to the background. You could make them part of your design, color them, whatever.
You could even punch a hole in it before you bake it and then use thread to support it even further.
 
Seeing as how you already stated that he was ok with gluing it down.... just do it.

What is the problem with just doing it that way? You will need to glue the tail somehow as well, so you might as well glue it all down and be done with it.

Some things just don't need a reinvention of the wheel. Some things just need to be glued down.

White glue/ carpenters glue/corner weld... anything.
 
Interesting solution. Would you happen to have any close-up photos of something mounted this way?
:cool: Rick

I can see this topic making a good magazine article.
 
Rick Granick said:
Interesting solution. Would you happen to have any close-up photos of something mounted this way?
:cool: Rick
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Sorry, no pictures. Yes, it might make an interesting article, but the applications for this type of mount are quite limited.

As I recall, I've used this method only twice, both times for large, fairly flat, irregularly-shaped, lightweight objects. One of the them, just a few years ago, was a doll hand-made out of cardboard, papers, and fabrics. A couple of very thin clear film straps kept it from falling forward out of the mounts. The other job involved a cut out shape of something like dense foam rubber or Styrofoam (memory fades; it was some time ago) and I think I used monofilament line to hold it in the mounts, which I probably would not use today.
 
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