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Old 04-27-2012, 12:18 PM
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The sectional frames are inexpensive, And easy. Here's a video on using them.

http://www.michaels.com/Wood-Section...framing-videos

Or the panoramic might fit a frame like this?

http://www.michaels.com/3-opening-bl...s-framing-wall

It comes with a mat that has 3 cutouts. Either swap it for your own, or trim out the cross pieces.

Overall it can be pretty inexpensive if you can do it yourself. The frame I did above was I think maybe 20 for the frame, a couple pieces of matboard at $6 each since I used two colors. The museum glass was the most expensive bit at around $25. plus some incidental stuff like fishing line to hang the medals from and acid free photo corners to hold the paper items. Even if I had to buy the tools like the xacto knife I'd have been under $100 The whole thing took me a couple hours to layout ,cut and assemble.

Steve B
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