Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]George, I would not buy anything from Light Impressions. They were once a good company, and I still have a case of their museum board left, but a few years ago, they began taking people's money and not shipping goods. http://host.madison.com/news/local/ask/sos/sos-historical-societies-learnin g-not-to-trust-archiving-supplies-company/article_fc011aac-5418-11e1-a0fe-0 019bb2963f4.html http://www.bbb.org/us/article/century-photo-light-impressions-leave-hundred s-of-unhappy-customers-bbb-warns-27877 http://www.bbb.org/losangelessiliconvalley/business-reviews/picture-restori ng/light-impressions-in-santa-fe-springs-ca-100040664 http://photo.net/black-and-white-photo-printing-finishing-forum/00c4Vr -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-437-8990 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 Become a fan on Facebook On 9/22/14 12:24 AM, "George Lottermoser" <george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote: > >On Sep 21, 2014, at 11:15 PM, Chris Crawford wrote: > >> http://www.americanframe.com >> >> I just buy frames from them, since I cut my own mats. They custom-cut >> Neilsen frames and they're very reasonably priced. Cheaper than many >> premade frames, but a lot better quality. They cut mats too. >> >> I have never tried American Frame's mats, but in my experience going to >> rather high-priced frame shops, they all do shit work at high prices. >>Get >> a mat cutter, and cut your own. I use a Logan 700SGM, which I bought >> nearly 20 years ago and have cut thousands of mats with. Best $200 I >>ever >> spent! The current model is the 750-1: >> >> >>http://www.dickblick.com/products/logan-750-1-and-760-1-simplex-elite-mat >>-c >> utters/ >> >> The price has not gone up much in all those years! Don't buy a cheap mat >> cutter, it will frustrate the hell out of you. Archival mat board is >> expensive, you don't want to ruin any of it...and the Logan cutter I use >> is nearly foolproof. >> >> I have a tutorial on matting and framing on my tutorial site: >> http://crawfordphotoschool.com/framing/index.php > > >also <http://www.lightimpressionsdirect.com/mat-boards/> > >Regards, >George Lottermoser > >http://www.imagist.com >http://www.imagist.com/blog >http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information