what is put between portrait and glass...

[deaconsbench]

...when there is no mat? Customer just brought a formal portrait in, I'll be putting in CC glass (there was no glass in it) and replacing the cardboard back with AF foamboard, then finish the back with Tyvek dust cover.

I'm thinking I could neatly lay a border of black Lineco rabbet tape to the glass to give some distance...I don't have any FrameSpace material.

What say you, and thanks in advance!

 

[PaulSF]

Little plastic spacers would do the trick.

 

[deaconsbench]

Little plastic spacers would do the trick.

Hey, Paul...I got to thinking about what I had written, and came back to edit my post - you had answered before I got back.

 

[jim_p]

Sometimes, especially when I need extra-thin spacers, I'll make them myself out of matboard and ATG. I don't use the dispenser, I roll the ATG out at the edge of the mat with the release paper still on it. I then use a sharp knife and straightedge to cut 1/8" strips. Voila! Do-it-yourself peel-and-stick spacers.

One thing to be aware of, though -- unless the portrait is on fairly stiff paper it *will* move and crinkle over time... being held down on the edges like that means the portrait has nowhere to go when it expands except away from the backer. I've had to re-do a few of my early jobs like this, dry-mounting the art to keep it flat. (never do this on an original, of course!)

 

[Greg Fremstad]

Why don't you have any FrameSpace? Wm L Day Co. in Hendersonville NC has some and so does Larsen-Juhl and Southern Moulding in GA

Shameless arn't I?

 

[Grey Owl]

Why don't you have any FrameSpace? Wm L Day Co. in Hendersonville NC has some and so does Larsen-Juhl and Southern Moulding in GA

Shameless arn't I?

I think there is someone in Oregon too, that could ship it overnight? Can you recommend anyone from there, Greg?

 

[Shayla]

David, what's the portrait on? Paper, board, or a stretched
canvas? How deep is it, and how deep is your frame?

 

[deaconsbench]

David, what's the portrait on? Paper, board, or a stretched
canvas? How deep is it, and how deep is your frame?

It's textured paper (appearance is canvas look) mounted on 1/16 white faced (looks like amazingly thin foamboard) hardboard...rabbet is 1/2. (I'm adding CC glass and replacing the cardboard backing with AF foamboard, then a Tyvek dust cover) I do need to get a supply of Framespace, but thought if I double up black rabbet foam strips it would suffice for this project.

 

[Jim Miller]

Oh, dread. How can this be? Admitting such a shortcoming must be the true confession of a brutally honest, but errant, framer. Your candid confession, if not your FrameSpace inventory, speaks well of you.

Get thee some FrameSpace. You, that portrait, and future portraits will rejoice in it.

In the meantime, you could manage with a double or triple-layer mat about 1/4" wide. Black core black would be unobtrusive. Of course, the labor of that would cost more than FrameSpace, but in a pinch it would get you through this order.

 

[deaconsbench]

Ahhh...tracked down a few strands of 1/8 and 1/4 Framespace. My universe is tilting back to spec as we speak. Thanks all!

 

[Randall C Colvin]

Sometimes, especially when I need extra-thin spacers, I'll make them myself out of matboard and ATG.

That's what I do.

 

[broadway]

You could cut out a very thin matboard to go around the outside of the pic so the lip of the frame would cover it up, unless you have 1/8 plastic spacers.