Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 7:44 pm Posts: 8910 Location: Santa Cruz Gender: Male
Any recommendations for places to look online for frames that work well for show posters? I've been searching around and have found a lot of sites, but I'd like some recommendations if anyone has had previous success or a good experience with a particular retailer. Are there any frames in particular that stand out as good frames specifically for PJ's concert posters?
I have never understood how this would work online. Wouldn't you have to send your poster away to have them frame it? Or are you looking for do it yourself kits?
I know many people simply wait until their local Micheal's has a sale (which happens often) and then take their poster there.
Framing can be very expensive. I went to a local shop which specializes in framing and worked with them to do a custom job for my Seattle 2000 poster. Had them do sepatate windows at the bottom for my ticket stubs from both nights. Looks awesome but the whole thing ended up costing me about $275.
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 7:44 pm Posts: 8910 Location: Santa Cruz Gender: Male
drifting away wrote:
I have never understood how this would work online. Wouldn't you have to send your poster away to have them frame it? Or are you looking for do it yourself kits?
Nah, just looking for a frame online to buy and they ship the frame to me. So, like, I have a poster that is 16x24. I suppose a frame of that size could just be bought. Unless It was going to be matted, then it's more complicated.
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 6:02 pm Posts: 1657 Location: Albany, NY
I do the wait for Michael's sale thing. You can get 50 or 75% off framing regularly there. Comes out to about $75 done right.
I have never, but I have heard people using Americanframe.com
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I would recommend going to a local, trustworthy independent frame shop. I've found that the "big box" frame stores mark their prices high-up, just to mark them back down for a "sale" - while an independent frame shop is usually consistently about the same after a big-box sale's price.
Also - if you go to an indy shop, you can say "Can you frame this for XXX price?", and they may have more play in their framing numbers, since they'll own their shops.
I'm not saying that indy shops are always cheapest, but most of the time they are around the same price on similar frames - but better service and they won't mishandle your poster.
Many times I get customers AFTER they've shopped at the local big-box store, because the big-box store cut-down their print without their permission, or drymounted a poster (ruining the value of expensive posters), or they install the conservation glass backward (making it prone to scratching) or a host of other things. I worked at one, and I've seen an employee take an oil painting and drymount it to foamboard, because he "didn't feel like" stretching it - which is the only correct way to frame an oil painting on canvas. He said the customer wouldn't know.
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