UV turning art green? Rumor?

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ERIC

ERIC

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I just got a call from another shop asking if I knew anything about UV glass causing the art to stain with a green color.

Huh?

I said that it may have a green color when you look through it, but it should not cause any staining. She said that a customer of her's heard this and did not want any UV on their work.

I'm thinking that her customer needs to come up with a better excuse to not spend a few extra dollars on their framing. Cheap!
 
Eric, you have left us all speechless.

I can only guess that someone noticed - or was told - that most glass has a greenish cast.
 
So sell them Crystal. If someone comes in with that misconception, and won't let go of it (after all their hairdresser knows more than you do about framing) Tell them you have museum glass, that protects the artwork so well, museums use it. Just don't call it UV glass.

I have had customers come in with a variety of misconceptions that they would NOT let go of, even when I explained things to them. Such as: non-glare glass will a)make your art fade, b)"burn" your art, c) rot needlework, d)protect your work from fading, e)break spontaneously, f)emit toxic fumes into your home.

Really.
 
The thing that I find amazing, is that the other framer called me JUST TO MAKE SURE that the customer wasn't correct - not to have a good laugh at "get a load of what my customer told me . . . "

(I hope that she really doesn't have time to read the Grumble ;) )
 
Or... what about the remote possibility that what had happened was the art was a printout from a printer and it was put into the f rame before the piece had a chance to gas off the stuff from the inks and because it was trapped in the frame, it reacted with the inks and changed the overall color. I heard somewhere about this phenomenon. Not sure where. The art has to be allowed to breathe for at least a day to gas off and become stable. A long shot but worth a try. ;)
 
I had a customer tell me that one of my competitors told her not to use non-glare glass. It seems that her theory was that because of the coating on non-glare, the UV rays passed through the glass and the coating held them inside so hence it was worse than regular glass for fading a print. This came from a CPF. Where do they get this information?
 
CPF of what??? :eek:

I wonder if your friend ever tried to scrape that non-glare "coating" off the glass with a razor blade?

FGII
 
I'm willing to give that CPF the benefit of the doubt. What customers are told and what they hear are not necesarily the same things.

I have to believe this. Otherwise, I'm going to have nightmares about UV rays trapped inside the framing package, pounding on the glass, 'Lemmie out, lemmie out', and sucking the yellow pigment out of artwork in their rage and frustration.

Kit
 
The UV glass story and the non glare glass story are the urban legends of the framing industry.
 
Thanks, Kit! :rolleyes:

Now I will have visions of those vicious little rays bouncing around in there until one ray, face painted blue, comes around to rally the troops yelling, "They may trap us in here, but they will NEVER take our freeeedom!!!" :D

Framerguy
 
And the UV glass is like the Borg... "you will be assimilated" And sucks them into oblivion. The few surviving UV rays run back to tell their friends about the monster glass, and All the frequencies get scared. Suddenly, your whole shop goes black.

Hmm... I don't think soy cheese is good for my brain.

WE studied basic physics in school, such as how light behaves. I am constantly surprised by how little of the information offered has stayed in people's heads.

I once had a long-time gallery owner tell me that black mats "steal light from the picture". I didn't retort that our mats are NOT made of neutronium, and only light that actually strikes the mat is absorbed.
 
Shouldn't this be in "warped?" Someone is, you know!
 
Thanks, guys. All of this stuff really makes me feel a lot better about Arnold Swishanoogie being our State Governor. Or not.
B.
 
Yes, indeed, Brian.

Upon reading this very intriguing thread I wouldn't be surprised that Arnold... Swishanoogie is elected your State Governor.


Bork
 
And regarding the title of this thread I can hear Arnold say (use your Arnold voice in your head as you read this)

"It's not a rumor"

(Kindergarten Cop - "it's not a tumor")

[ 10-07-2003, 11:33 PM: Message edited by: ERIC ]
 
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