Framing and matting

[mr2686]

Originally Posted by Lordstan

Ben,
Probably the same way I did. I downloaded the picture from the web and printed it out.
I am very envious of David's original and it goes so well with the ticket. Of course, I know it's not the same day, but it fits together nicely.
Do you any of your pictures displayed?

Mike,
Very nice frame jobs. Was the price of the mats for archival mat board? If so, $8 is.a steal. What kind of lighting do you have?
Best,
Mark
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Yep, I did exactly what you did and printed it from the web. As you said, the picture isn't exactly from that day, but it's what it represents that counts and besides, I really didn't want a picture of Lou in his coffin with the ticket
Yes, that price was for archival mat board. They whip this stuff out pretty quick too, usually while I wait, so what they lose per piece they're making up in the volume I'm bringing in I guess. Plus, I have purchased a couple of frames from them and I make them look busy so customers are coming in to their small shop.
For lighting, I'm using track led lighting in the closet area where most of these new ones are going, and then in the rest of the room I have canned lights in the ceiling with a dimmer, but they rarely get used. It's mostly dark in the room until I want to look at stuff and then I open up the blinds just enough to have some defused lighting.
I just got back from getting the matting for a signed 8x10 of Amoros making his famous catch in the 55 series. The only problem is that the picture doesn't take up the whole 8x10 so I had them make the inner mat a bit larger and it actually looks pretty good. Once I get a ticket from Game 7 of the series, I'll be re-matting it anyway, but this will do for now and help make that wall look complete.

[brookdodger55]

For anyone interested, the crafts store Michael's accepts the 40-50 percent off coupon on the cutter, coupons are available in their flyer that comes with your weekly newspaper or online email if you sign-up. I purchased the cutter that sells for 129.99 for 65 bucks, a pretty good deal, time to get practicing with my My cutting skills. Thanks to all for the great thread.

Mike

[mr2686]

Originally Posted by brookdodger55

For anyone interested, the crafts store Michael's accepts the 40-50 percent off coupon on the cutter, coupons are available in their flyer that comes with your weekly newspaper or online email if you sign-up. I purchased the cutter that sells for 129.99 for 65 bucks, a pretty good deal, time to get practicing with my My cutting skills. Thanks to all for the great thread.

Mike

Hey Mike, have you had a chance to play with the cutter yet?

[Rickyy]

Everyone's attempts inspired me...so I finally got off of my butt and just did some myself...bought a Logan Compact Matte Cutter... some acid free backing boards, frames, mattes etc...and away I went... only messed up one matte cut so far...






Ricky Y

[Lordstan]

Ricky,
Great job. Glad we could all inspire you.
I would've never thought of going with that light blue for the Ruth ad, but it really works very nicely.
Keep up the good work.
best,
Mark

[Lordstan]

I did 2 new ones last night. Not sports, but I didn't think anyone would mind.

Ramones


Rush Before


Rush After


BTW: If you didn't see the R&R HOF induction ceremony for Rush, you should check it out. The intro by Foo Fighter's Grohl and Hawkins as well as the acceptance speeches by the band were all pretty funny.

[mr2686]

Ricky, those look great, keep up the good work and make sure to keep posting them.

Mark, you're making me nostalgic for my High School days in the 70's with the Ramones and Rush on my turntable. Oh c'mon, you guys know what a turntable is don't you?

[brookdodger55]

Originally Posted by mr2686

Hey Mike, have you had a chance to play with the cutter yet?

I've played with some 8 by 10 poster board for practice' I'm looking through
all my stuff and trying to match up some items to put together in a multiple
cut out. I will post when I finish my first multi cut out piece.

Mike

[Lordstan]

Mike(BD55),
When I did my first multi cut out piece, I made what I think might be a common mistake. Maybe it'll help you before you try. Make sure there is enough distance between the 2 items you are matting. If you are single matting the items, the distance only matters from an asthetic standpoint. If you are double matting, you need to remember that the top mat will be at least 1/4in smaller than the bottom mat. The problem I had was that my 2 items were too close and after subtracting 1/4in from each cutout, the top mat wound up very thin. It was not only difficult to cut, but also didn't look right.

Pictures will explain what I mean better.

Here are 2 pictures of Mel Ott that I matted. Notice the size of the brown top mat between the 2 images.



Now here is the Gehrig group that I put together. Notice how thin the top blue mat is between the Picture and the Sporting news book. I didn't leave myself enough space to get an even amount of Blue top mat in between each item. I have to tell you that this thing was a pain to do. I'll probably redo it at some point.


Good Luck,
Mark

[Lordstan]

Newest addition

[mr2686]

Thought I'd post a couple of new ones. Remember, there's no right or wrong when it comes to colors of matting, but there is good and better. Sometimes it's just down right hard especially with Perez Steele cards or magazines because old magazines have faded colors and PS have some weird colors on some of them. Case in point, I've seen several Bancroft PS cards matted and most people use the weird blue that's in the background. Here's one I just did where I used more of a sandy skin tone with a color to match the hat brim and team letter for the inside mat. For the magazines, yellow always seems to go good with green and fortunately there was yellow lettering on the covers. Dark blue was used to match the Yankee hats and undershirt.