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Mounting the art with repositionable mounting adhesive (RPMA)

Mounting the art with repositionable mounting adhesive (RPMA)

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Mounting the art with repositionable mounting adhesive (RPMA)

There's one more mounting technique that I'd like to demonstrate for you that has occasional application when mounting photographs. The reason I don't recommend it unequivocally is because it is a nonreversible mounting technique. That being said there may be occasion to use this, say you have a photograph that you want to trim to the exact edge of the photograph and show the backing board inside the window mat, or if you wanted to surface mount a photograph and just float it recessed in a deep frame, this would be the material I would recommend for doing that. Old-school methodology, we used to use a heat and pressure method called Dry Mounting. Once again, it was nonreversible. Another way to do the same thing is with a spray adhesive, spray mount, there are a lot of different brands out there. Those are solvent born things that scatter a lot of adhesive around wherever we use them, I don't recommend those either. So if you want an adhesive based mount, this is what I would suggest,…

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