Flattening a Print Stored in a Tube
Not cheap, but it does work:
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Usually these are listed as "Mint, stored in tube since purchase."bubbie wrote: ↑Mon Aug 03, 2020 7:15 pmeBay buy, probably. There is tons of listings that have photos of 10 year old (10 as an example) prints that look like they are lifting the books or other fairly heavy weights used to hold them “flat” for those photos. Would never buy one of those unless I thought it was an extremely good deal. Also, I always get a kick out of the photos of curled up prints hold in place by weights and sellers claiming they have been stored flat since arrival.
NEWPORTS69 wrote:ive kept journal for very long time and ranked public restrooms because i srs hate using them, was working on an app but im not very smart
I confess I've taken pics of a print as I received it, put it in foamcore to flatten, stored it, and then was to lazy to take it out for an ebay listing. If it's a banger, obvi I get motivated, but for a ~$100 print, eh.
Stingers wrote:If you can't get it up eat less fudge, excersise and stop being a kitten.
Relax, I honestly don't give a fudge.john38103 wrote:All gin every thing. drymount all you hoes.
Yeah no doubt. Untube, relax, flatten, store.
Stingers wrote:If you can't get it up eat less fudge, excersise and stop being a kitten.
Relax, I honestly don't give a fudge.john38103 wrote:All gin every thing. drymount all you hoes.
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Same here, pics are usually taken first before the relax, flatten, and storage stages.
Anyone ever used that deroller thing linked above?
I did a reverse curl once for a print that wouldn't flatten. It had clearly been tube stored for years, several weeks of flattening and it would still roll right up.
Reverse rolled it back into a tube for about 3 months and it's been perfectly flat ever since.
Reverse rolled it back into a tube for about 3 months and it's been perfectly flat ever since.
Not me. Why spend $300 when 8 of Sue's bags to weigh down the print cost $20.ygolohcysp wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 6:13 pmSame here, pics are usually taken first before the relax, flatten, and storage stages.
Anyone ever used that deroller thing linked above?
NEWPORTS69 wrote:ive kept journal for very long time and ranked public restrooms because i srs hate using them, was working on an app but im not very smart
I've neva reverse rolled anything, but there's some prints I bought that weren't even in a tube for very long but were rolled super tight. I've been trying to get them to flatten for years. Might have to try the reverse.
RupertPupkin wrote:I live by this rule and this rule alone: people are drymounting idiots.
I did it twice. One worked out pretty great. The other not so well because the ink cracked. I was expecting it to happen though and didn’t care. It was a litho on thick kind of semi-gloss, for the lack of a better word, paper. The crack was tiny, but it looked like you could peel the whole layer of ink starting at that point if you tried, lol. I didn’t try.
I am currently having trouble with Sperry’s Our Future litho that was mistakenly left in the tube for a few weeks. That sucker just wouldn’t flatten. Definitely wouldn’t roll that one backwards though; it looks like a perfect candidate for ink cracking.
I am currently having trouble with Sperry’s Our Future litho that was mistakenly left in the tube for a few weeks. That sucker just wouldn’t flatten. Definitely wouldn’t roll that one backwards though; it looks like a perfect candidate for ink cracking.
This is why I don’t like when people use a 3 inch tube and roll the print smaller than the diameter. I’ve received too many of these where the print is rolled far tighter than the paper should be.
^ Absolutely.
And I’d be right every time.
If either of you provided me with a pic like that you took back when you received that print 8 years ago, I would sayygolohcysp wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 6:13 pmSame here, pics are usually taken first before the relax, flatten, and storage stages.
And I’d be right every time.
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8 years? my in and out is more like immediately or 6 months to a year. I don't store anything rolled. But yeah after 8 years I would want a new pic too
If you want an actual picture of a sub $100 print that's 8 years old on a site that is frequented by a small group of people that basically only talk to each other, well then, move down the list.
Or I'd just take it out and send you a pic, whatever.
Or I'd just take it out and send you a pic, whatever.
Stingers wrote:If you can't get it up eat less fudge, excersise and stop being a kitten.
Relax, I honestly don't give a fudge.john38103 wrote:All gin every thing. drymount all you hoes.