More affordable shadowbox mouldings

Jana

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Any suggestions for companies that have nice, budget-priced shadowbox mouldings? I'm especially looking for some pretty golds. I've taken orders for, and given estimates for, some shadowboxes recently. Even I had sticker shock!

I like working on shadowboxes and would like to do more, but sometimes the moulding price is an object. We do have simple black mouldings that do the trick sometimes, but I would like to have more variety in that price range.
 
Xylo - finished or unfinished. Vermont Hardwoods - finished or unfinished. Decor and Southern.

Maybe next step up - Williamson and Omega.

Betty
 
Jana,

Good question!! I have lost a few estimates for shadowboxes because of the prices of the mouldings. Most of my shadowbox moulding samples are LJ and they are very pricey, for the most part.

I hope that you get a wide variety of responses as I too am looking for some suppliers in my new area who carry modestly priced shadowbox mouldings. I have seen a few from Cash, Framing Suppliers, and Crossroads here in the S.E. but am always open for other suggestions from those who have dealt with the moulding companies here in the Southeast area of the country.

This is all new territory for me and starting over is simply that, starting over and learning your sources all over again.

Thanks for the question.

Framerguy
 
I stock several from NEI/Design Guild & Studio.
Both are under $2.00 for length.
 
I like the Nielsen 100 series shadowbox mouldings; they have a nice clean-lined look.

My favorite thing about them is that, before you fit the fourth side, you can reach in and remove and lint that has spontaneously generated on the backing board.

And there are no side walls to build.

Kit
 
Have you tried Rapheal's shodox box liners?

Clients love them & there soooo easy to fit. They even come in the Cresent/Moorman suedes.
 
If you do your own cutting & joining, you could use wide mouldings on edge, capped with a narrow moulding on top. That is, what's usually the bottom or back of the moulding becomes the inside of the shadowbox.

Instead of placing the moulding in your saw with the rabbet toward the inside of the saw's fence, place it so the rabbet is on top, and you're looking down on it as it's cut.

The cap moulding is cut & joined in the usual manner, but carefully sized to fit inside the now-on-top rabbet of the vertical moulding.

These "vertically stacked" mouldings may be constructed to open easily if fastened together with magnets or hinges, or they may be glued. Fitting from the back is the same as usual.

Framerica "Boxers" are very handy and convenient, too -- stack them to whatever depth you need.

I agree that Nielsen's #100 series are the best, when metal is appropriate. And their finished interiors eliminate the need for shadowbox sides.
 
The stacked mouldings can be used to create anything, that's true, but then you get away from the idea of "more affordable." (Perceived or true.)

Betty
 
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