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We find this a handy way to secure medals that have a length of ribbon that needs to be displayed.
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Re: Medals
Do you secure the ribbon at the top under the mount with a stitch or two or do the two slots you cut hold them in place? Or are there further slots at the top out of sight?
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We secure the top of the ribbon with a staple, but as you point out, a couple of stitches could also serve the purpose.
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That's an interesting way of doing it for sports medals John and one I might pinch for myself. How are the medals themselves fixed?
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The medals are not fixed, Rolf, they are free to dangle.
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Very neat way to do it John, thanks for sharing, will pinch it
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Excellent way of fixing , particularly sports medals
when all is said and done - there is more said than done.
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Thanks this is the one that we have tried your Idea out with, Gemma has done this, our new framer, it is her sisters medal so a good practice job, she has been with us since August, a newbie to framing,
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And an excellent job she has done - and congratulations to her sister
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Nice and clean! Consider it nicked.
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Very neat. Bet a CMC helps though!
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Here's my effort
All cut by hand - none of this new fangled cmc technology here.
All cut by hand - none of this new fangled cmc technology here.
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Re: Medals
Respekt!
Are they (the medals themselves) fixed down in any way? Just that they all have points that they could be, at least partially - where the ribbons attach. A strap of melinex, or even a couple of stitches could be attached in the same way at the same points, then you wouldn't have to make those fiddly apertures and would also see the whole ribbon, as it would be worn. Just sayin'
Are they (the medals themselves) fixed down in any way? Just that they all have points that they could be, at least partially - where the ribbons attach. A strap of melinex, or even a couple of stitches could be attached in the same way at the same points, then you wouldn't have to make those fiddly apertures and would also see the whole ribbon, as it would be worn. Just sayin'
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According to the Urban dictionary:
- just sayin' :-
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- a phrase used to diffuse any ill feelings caused by a preceded remark.
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Re: Medals
Neat idea!
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There is nothing holding the medals or ribbons in place other than the piece of mount board between the two small apertures, and then some tape at the top and around the back.Roboframer wrote:Respekt!
Are they (the medals themselves) fixed down in any way?
I gave the options to the customer and charged accordingly. Personally I think this is a neat way of holding medals, although the next one I did for the customer had a photograph included and therefore couldn't be as wide vertically. This means that not as much ribbon will be showing so I didn't do it the same way, simply fixed the ribbons just out of sight.
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It's neat but I think (I was going to put "IMHO" there but googled definitions of that and it could easily be read in a way I totally would not have intended) it's good to discuss pros and cons.
If it's OK for the main objects, the medals themselves, to be free to swing side-to-side so they can collide with each other and also front-to-back so they can knock against the glass, then why bother with those apertures that they are woven through, why not just have them swinging free from the top?
The 'bars' that those apertures make are obvious mounting methods which conceal part of the ribbon but If that is the preferred point of attachment Melinex straps, wider or narrower, although still visible would be far, far less conspicuous as they are at least transparent and leave the ribbons flat, just like they looked when they were laid out on your counter.
I'd be grateful for the attachment points provided and use them, I'd also probably skip the window mount and have the ribbons pass through tiny reverse-bevelled slits (but I've got a CMC) as well, and they would be secured on the back of the mounting board with no adhesive or stitches or staples at all - and it wouldn't be difficult either.
If it's OK for the main objects, the medals themselves, to be free to swing side-to-side so they can collide with each other and also front-to-back so they can knock against the glass, then why bother with those apertures that they are woven through, why not just have them swinging free from the top?
The 'bars' that those apertures make are obvious mounting methods which conceal part of the ribbon but If that is the preferred point of attachment Melinex straps, wider or narrower, although still visible would be far, far less conspicuous as they are at least transparent and leave the ribbons flat, just like they looked when they were laid out on your counter.
I'd be grateful for the attachment points provided and use them, I'd also probably skip the window mount and have the ribbons pass through tiny reverse-bevelled slits (but I've got a CMC) as well, and they would be secured on the back of the mounting board with no adhesive or stitches or staples at all - and it wouldn't be difficult either.