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Yippeeeee........I sold a job with Museum glass today! The last sale was about two and a half years ago.
Strike me lucky, how will I keep this up this frantic pace???

Uh oh..............I hope the sheet I have left in the pack hasn't melted or exploded while I wasn't paying attention!
 
We had three sales of MG last month - our over inflated prices are obviously not kwite as bad as yours!
 
Lucky you, probably pay a pittance for yours!
 
No it still costs about $500 more to freight a sheet of MG to NZ than a live white rhino, or same sized piece of regular glass...
 
An Olympic athlete paddles them across the Pacific Ocean in a kayak. One pack at a time. It's no wonder they cost so much!
 
I did a job with MG last week. It looked great and the customer was pleased. The job was £80 with std glass and £180 with MG.

Now what I really want to know.....

Lance. How do you get to be a Goldfish Tamer?:party:
 
Prospero,
Obviously you pay a lot less than we do for MG! This has to be the most expensive place on the planet for this stuff!
 
prospero said:
Go on. Make my day. What's a 4x3 of MG cost in Aus?
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It's only $439 plus freight and some other costly complications!

Thats why it's difficult to sell here!
 
Errrrrrrrrr....yes. That is a tad on the pricey side. :faintthud: I won't ask about the complications. Is it the 20 Tahitian maidens who deliver it?

I had a idea the other day.;) Get a small cheapo print and frame it with half std glass and half MG. Then put it in the window with a suitable caption. Hopefully, the std side will fade to buggery and cause a panic buying spree for MG.:thumbsup:
 
prospero said:
I had a idea the other day.;) Get a small cheapo print and frame it with half std glass and half MG. Then put it in the window with a suitable caption. Hopefully, the std side will fade to buggery and cause a panic buying spree for MG.:thumbsup:
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I don't know if this is available outside the States, but TruVue has a nice display with three types of glass in it: Conservation Clear on the left, Museum Glass in the middle, and Conservation Reflection Control on the right. Got it hanging in the shop and people say "Why is there no glass in the middle?" I couldn't sell Museum Glass to save my life until I hung that thing up...
 
I had a customer that liked that glass sample so much (the one with the big orange flower), he wanted to buy it! We eventually ordered another sample, pulled the glass out, reglassed it with regular glass, and sold it to him for a profit.

For my friends in the other corner, next time you come to the States on holiday, along with your other souveniers, take home a case or two of Museum Glass. Should be a blast when you get to Customs!

Heck, I'd even give you some of my scrap pieces to take back with you. Around here, we use the MG glass for stuff like paperweights and to keep the kitchen table level. ;)
 
jim_p said:
I don't know if this is available outside the States, but TruVue has a nice display with three types of glass in it: Conservation Clear on the left, Museum Glass in the middle, and Conservation Reflection Control on the right. Got it hanging in the shop and people say "Why is there no glass in the middle?" I couldn't sell Museum Glass to save my life until I hung that thing up...
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Through LJ in Australia, it is possible to get a similar TrueVue display with CC on one half and MG on the other, and I get the same comments about there being no glass on the rhs. -- but the price of MG in Oz as stated earlier is substantially higher (like 50 times Regular Clear, or 10 times CC).

I framed up a similar display using Reg and CC glass and a newspaper article, and left it in direct sunlight for a week. After seeing the yellowing effect, its amazing now the number of people who have no hesitation in requesting the CC glass :)
 
Glad to know they're slugging all of us Ormond....if the MG is $880 per box, for the glass sample (framed), LJ will surely slug us what $200 each for those! I've never seen one, only advertised in Picture Framing Mag and Decor, although I have asked for one several times.... maybe I just don't buy enough boxes of the stuff to warrant a (heaven forbid!) FREE sample!!
 
The Tru-Vue displays are free, and they have been made available to all framers. If you have asked several times, then something is wrong. If your distributor is unresponsive, then perhaps you should contact Tru-Vue directly.
 
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Talk again to your glass supplier and get the contact details for Chris - a marvelous chap working for TV in NZ and Oz. I am certain he will get you a sample of some sort which makes selling the stuff much easier.

We have made our own samples as well, these are for customers to take home and try on the wall they are planning to put the finished piece - the strike rate on the "unsure" that take these home is fairly good.

From memory MG is about 70x the price per m² for regular glass in NZ, perhaps this is a standard ratio in the US?
 
LOL.....looks like W.C. edited his post after I made mine,
so it makes absolutely no sense at all. The perils of
posting.

I've enjoyed the wit in this thread. I used to sell almost
entirely conservation clear glass, but decided to try
offering Museum a few years ago. We don't sell a lot
of it, but customers who try it usually insist on it
from then on. I sure do wish you could get it a bit
less expensively Down Under. It's spendy here, but
not so much that it's prohibitive. When I think of
that, I think of Optium Museum Acrylic.
 
I'm sucha sap! I lent my Museum Acrylic and UV Acrylic sample box with the tassels out to a guy who said he was taking it out to a commitee for a sample. He wanted to bid on a job (big job) and he would bring it back asap. That was six months ago, never heard from him again. He was a customer from a way back and to this day I can't remember his name. Although it was on the tip of my cortex when he was here. Gawd! What was his name? In the mean time I've taken another box sample and put acrylic into it. I called TruVue for a replacement and they don't make those anymore, so I was told.
You guys in Aus and NZ should have another vendor in the east for that stuff, cheaper I would guess-like china?
PF
 
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