Framing and matting

[Lordstan]

I had framed the next 4 previously. They were in cheap $5 Walmart wood frames of either a reddish brown or natural color. I took them out of the frames and painted them with black glossy spray paint. I also changed them from single mats to double mats.
Paige

Berra-Williams

Dimaggio

Hubbell


Diamggio Cronin


All Star pic


The next three frames were purchased as is at Ollie's Outlet for $30 each. No matting work needed. The first 2 pics are the original. The third original was a little too small, so I scanned it and made the print a little bigger.




Koufax wire photo


16x20 Ny Rangers Greats. Pic taken at Leetch's number retirement ceremony.


11x14 Sporting news original cover that was glued to backing board years ago and then signed by Dimaggio and Williams.


The last two are 2 of my favs. These were the flyers from 2 of the shows my father and his partner ran in the mid 80's. I got them signed. Gwynn was one of the nicest human beings I have had the pleasure to meet. He told us at the time that this was his first show appearance! Check out the auto prices!

My dad has since passed and these remind me of the great times we had together. Please no calling my mom's phone number.

[perezfan]

That's some really nice work. I especially like the way you treated the Gehrigs, with the silver inner fillet. Very attractive, and looks professional.

One further suggestion... If you don't want to apply tape directly to the piece, you can slip the photo into a protective mylar sleeve, and tape the mylar (rather than the piece itself) to the mat.

This has worked well for me with several items. Great thread!

[steve B]

I've mostly done my own framing for a long time. Ever since a framing shop wrecked a poster while dry mounting it

This is a group of items from a cyclist who was the uruguayan national champion in a particular race in the 1920's. Poster, photo, racing license and a few medals. I use acid free photo corners to hold the paper items to the back mat and than layers of mat to make enough room for the medals. Those are hung from the very back layer by fishing line sewn through the mat.

Assemble it yourself frame kit to get the custom size, and UV blocking coated glass. The Glass was the most expensive part $25 .

Steve B

[Runscott]

I really like the way you used the navy blue matting to set off the black and white Gehrig photos - huge improvement.

Great information in this thread - thanks to all for sharing.

[mcgwirecom]

Wow Mark, your room is EXACTLY the same as the one I did about 20 years ago in my last house. These are some pictures of when I first got it done. It ended up with a lot more stuff on the walls. But the layout is exactly like yours.

[gashouse34]

Originally Posted by mcgwirecom

Wow Mark, your room is EXACTLY the same as the one I did about 20 years ago in my last house. These are some pictures of when I first got it done. It ended up with a lot more stuff on the walls. But the layout is exactly like yours.

Nice room Randall! Question for you (or anyone else with experience). How do you get Pennants to hang on a ceiling? I'm totally out of room in my smaller sports room but have a bunch more pennants i'd like to display.

[Runscott]

Randall, I can't stand this. I've been accumulating 'man room' (with pool table) stuff for years, but no house yet. At one point I even had an antique cue rack and examples of almost every 4-veneered Brunswick cue ever made, all ready to play. My gf is looking for a house and has agreed to let me have a room to be used however I want, so there will be a happy ending someday.

Great job with that room!

[mcgwirecom]

Originally Posted by gashousegang_1

Nice room Randall! Question for you (or anyone else with experience). How do you get Pennants to hang on a ceiling? I'm totally out of room in my smaller sports room but have a bunch more pennants i'd like to display.

Hi, it was one of those acoustic ceiling tiled ceilings. I just tacked them up there. A few were in those plastic pennant holders (flimsy kind) and I tacked the holder. Most were cheap, newer pennants and originally I did it to hide the blue chalk marks from mis-handled cues. The ceiling was kind of low as it was in the basement. Originally the wall was inside of the support pole but I wanted a regulation pool table so I moved it out further.

[mr2686]

Randall, I forgot to mention that your Aaron Hill is outstanding. Very well done. Do you have any others that you've done that you can share?

[mr2686]

Originally Posted by steve B

I've mostly done my own framing for a long time. Ever since a framing shop wrecked a poster while dry mounting it

This is a group of items from a cyclist who was the uruguayan national champion in a particular race in the 1920's. Poster, photo, racing license and a few medals. I use acid free photo corners to hold the paper items to the back mat and than layers of mat to make enough room for the medals. Those are hung from the very back layer by fishing line sewn through the mat.

Assemble it yourself frame kit to get the custom size, and UV blocking coated glass. The Glass was the most expensive part $25 .

Steve B

Steve, do you get your UV glass locally or do you get it over the internet? Seems like the price is going up here locally and I'm going to start looking to have it shipped. Any recommendations?

[steve B]

Originally Posted by mr2686

Steve, do you get your UV glass locally or do you get it over the internet? Seems like the price is going up here locally and I'm going to start looking to have it shipped. Any recommendations?

I bought it locally. I'm pretty sure that shop has closed. A small independent place that stocked the glass.

They did regular glass, some sort of special clearer glass, Uv blocking and museum glass that was both UV blocking and glare free. The only thing they didn't have was replacement vintge glass. (I've got a good stock of it myself, but I'm not all that experienced with cutting it. I've heard the old wavy stuff is brittle)

I need to look for another place, Michaels can be "difficult" if you want to do your own with anything but stock mats. I think it depends on the manager. One will be hard to buy matboard from, another easier and they'll sell the cutouts from their own projects at a bargain price.

I've done a few things, including a couple mats for gifts that had cutout designs. Silver faced mat with a black core can work out really well.

Steve b

[mr2686]

Thanks Steve. I agree about Michaels...hit and miss most of the time. I will get frames from them when they're on sale but that's about it. My frame shop that gives me such great deals on the matting doesn't have as good a price on glass for whatever reason.