Displaying our collections (Revisited)

[rainier2004]

Originally Posted by dzolot

How would I go about making a display like yours for myself? Would want to use it for 8 or so 51 bowmans...

I made it a long process, type A detail oriented anal-retentive perfectionist that needs everything symmetrical.

1. Basic lay-out: I love to spread my cards all over the floor until they meet my mood of the day...just arrange them on the floor until you like them worrying more about the total # and where you want the windows.
2. Decide the basic mount: I decided to place all cards within SGC slabs to utilize their custom black around the card for contrast. This also gives uniformity to that layer within the piece which is necessary. At this point only 15 of the 27 cards are actually graded by SGC and the other 12 have been placed in carefully busted slabs that I pulled CJs out of.
3. The layers on mine, front to back, go frame - glass - matte - cards - matte - glass - framing matte - turnable clips for easy removal (at least in theory). I should have substituted the glass for acrylic (I believe thats the other option) simply for weight purpose, but it doesn't shatter either.
4. Color scheme
5. I made a rough draft of mine with newspaper. The cost of the matte is much more affected by size and not the number of windows cut so I went crazy w/ 27 - almost did 35 but was too big.
6. Become buddies with a manager of a custom framing shop and show him your cards.
*. A lightweight piece of material is used to keep the cards in place and is glued to the back of the matte. I can interchange my cards any way I want as long as they are in a SGC case and I have found psa slabs fit, they just arent centered nor consistent with the piece obviously (and my lazy ass hasnt busted my Pickey out of his psa tomb). This goes against my nature as I like cracking slabs, but its very easy to exchange cards in the SGC cases. I still need 2!