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Jan 15, 2009 - 1:34 PM
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LeHah
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The Millennium Message Board "This Is Who We Are" had a wonderful, informative thread about how to preserve autographed CD covers. The member who wrote it, Watts, gave me kind permission to repost and link what he wrote here.
You can see the original thread here - http://www.millennium-thisiswhoweare.net/tiwwa/index.php?showtopic=21829
Hello,
I decided to write up a little tutorial for those who are interested in framing and preserving your signed Mark Snow CD booklet. I am a professional picture framer and all of the materials shown here are museum quality and acid free.
First thing you want to do is build a sink mat. I chose a thick 8 ply 100% cotton rag backing board. The strips that build the sink portion of the mat have to be the same thickness as the booklet. In this case 2 ply rag mat.
Next I attach the 2 ply strips around the CD booklet, this is what will hold the booklet in place. (Notice that no glue or adhesive ever touches the booklet.)
After the strips are secured snuggly around all 4 sides of the booklet I picked out a mat. In this case I chose a nice black mat.
I opted for a 2" mat all the way around the booklet. The opening in the mat will be slightly smaller than the size of the booklet so that it doesn't fall through the opening.
Then I cut the mat, and attach it over the booklet.
Next I cut a piece of Conservation Glass which has a 98% UV filter which will preserve the booklet from fading and other light damage.
Then I chose an appropriate Gothic style frame and cut it to size. After cutting and sanding the frame it is assembled around the artwork.
And voila! There you have it, your very own framed, archival quality Mark Smow signed CD insert!
Make sure if you're bringing yours somewhere to get framed that they do the following-
-Use only acid free materials. (No cardboard, foam etc.!)
-Make a sink mat for it.
-Don't glue or tape the booklet in place! (That's what the sink mat is for!)
-Use a UV filtering glass.
LeHah would like to give big, big thanks to the following:
*Watts, for writing this entire post in the first place and allowing me to put it here.
*The Old Man, for allowing and supporting the cross-posting
*Members of TIWWA who are amongst the nicest people you can meet on the internet
*The people of LaLaLand Records, who made this (and so many other!) releases possible - and making these autographed covers available.
*Mark Snow - for writing the music and signing so many darned covers!
Thank you all!
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But the guy who did the above certainly has his sparetime cut out for him (no pun intended).
You know what, Thor? I think that pun WAS intended! Can't fool me. 
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Jan 15, 2009 - 11:22 PM
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antipodean
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Personally, I like to keep the booklets in their actual cases, signed or not. But the guy who did the above certainly has his sparetime cut out for him (no pun intended).
I don't frame my signed CD covers, either. Generally speaking, I only have the one cover of most of my signed titles, unless it's an early-bird offer like Lalaland and you get two covers.
Anyway, in the last few years, I've had enough posters done by the same professional framer so he knows what my preferences are (e.g. acid-free paper tape, non-glare UV glass, etc), and he always does a good job for me at a fair price.
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Once upon a time, I worked a picture framer (circa '93), and admire his technique and attention to detail, not to mention his aesthetic sense of color and balance. I prefer to keep my signed booklets in the original CD case, but certainly appreciate his treatment of the booklet as a work of art that deserves to be preserved and displayed as such.
Here'a piece that I matted and framed 15 years ago that's followed me everywhere since. It's a photograph by Jeanloup Sieff of Alfred Hitchcock (and unnamed female) posing dramatically (and somewhat comically) in front of the Psycho house. I double-matted the print with a maroon suede (whitecore) mat on top with a triple notched-corner black (blackcore) mat underneath. The frame itself is unlike any other I've seen before or since.
GREAT picture!
I wonder who the woman is..?
John.
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Once upon a time, I worked a picture framer (circa '93), and admire his technique and attention to detail, not to mention his aesthetic sense of color and balance. I prefer to keep my signed booklets in the original CD case, but certainly appreciate his treatment of the booklet as a work of art that deserves to be preserved and displayed as such.
Here'a piece that I matted and framed 15 years ago that's followed me everywhere since. It's a photograph by Jeanloup Sieff of Alfred Hitchcock (and unnamed female) posing dramatically (and somewhat comically) in front of the Psycho house. I double-matted the print with a maroon suede (whitecore) mat on top with a triple notched-corner black (blackcore) mat underneath. The frame itself is unlike any other I've seen before or since.
I've had a postcard of that image for decades! Right along side of a shot of Hitch with one of "The Birds" on his shoulder while he's smoking a stogie.
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