Afternoon all
I have a customer with some huge posters to frame and he wants 99% anti UV protection. They are too big for traditional mounts and he doesn't want the frames to be much bigger than the artwork so at first I was thinking 99% acrylic would be the only solution. But then I thought...
Could we use regular 2mm acrylic (with no UV properties) behind UV99% artglass? The poster would be up against the acrylic and the artglass would provide the protection.
Anyone tried this before and/or can you think of any possibly drawbacks - misting perhaps?
Thanks, Adrian
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Acrylic and glass at the same time
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Re: Acrylic and glass at the same time
The glass will tend to be flatter than the acrlic, so where the glass and acrylic touch there will most like be a strange optical effect and where they don't touch it will look different. You'll be a clever man to make this not look a bit strange!
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Re: Acrylic and glass at the same time
Thanks Mark - I knew it couldn't be that easy. I will dummy up a small one and see what it looks like. Thanks again and will let you know if I crack it (no pun intended).
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Re: Acrylic and glass at the same time
a small one might not show the effect as much. It needs to be big enough for the acrylic to flex a little.
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Re: Acrylic and glass at the same time
I know it's not the answer you were asking for but why not just hinge to board, use a spacer and glaze with thicker UV99 glass?
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Re: Acrylic and glass at the same time
It probably would be OK, but the acrylic would serve no purpose as far as I can see.
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Re: Acrylic and glass at the same time
I was trying to understand why using both the glass and the acrylic being used at the same time made sense. I'm not really sure why, but is the acrylic there to protect the painting, if the glass got broken? It still does not make much sense to me!
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