crustycurmudgeon
Well-Known Member
I want to share what I was up to last week. Any music fan from the Bay Area is no doubt familiar with Fillmore concert posters. There are other music venues that released posters as well, but the classic Fillmore posters are the standard. If you attend a sold out concert at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco (and a few other venues), you can expect to be handed a poster on your way out. I had collected a handful of these posters with the intention of eventually getting them matted and framed, but the cost was always prohibitive--at least $100 at someplace like Michaels. That's a ripoff! I found an online source for frames for under $50 each and the matboards are about $10. The mat cutter was almost $100, but would only take two posters to make it worthwhile. It's not difficult at all to mat and frame your own posters and prints. What took the most time was double, triple, and quadruple checking my measurements, math and cut lines. Once you cut you can't uncut. The ticket stubs added a bit of complexity to the project but the two that I've done so far came out, in my opinion, better than if I had had Michaels or the like do them. I had the time to make sure everything was right before making the cuts, while a "professional" is pressed to get it done quickly. I saw some that a co-worker had professionally done and there were issues that I wouldn't have been happy with.
