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[egypturnash]

Woo. Buying 78 frames is not gonna be cheap.

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[jirris-midvale.livejournal.com]

Man, it's too bad you aren't on the west coast. I work for a frame store, and there's a big sale going on right now. All the frames are basically 50% off, in every store in the whole chain. None out east, however. It's something I could make happen, but shipping would make a big dent in the savings.

Just curious, but what color/size do you need?

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Probably black; it'll go with everything and unify them a little. 56@10x15", 22@20x30".

(Approximate sizes - I'm looking into coercing them to fit into mass-marketed sizes but the actual images are drawn at 5.5x8.5" so it turns out they don't quite fit anything.)

[jirris-midvale.livejournal.com]

The 20x30's you can find easily. The other size, not so much.

I looked around, and found a place that can make them for $11.50 a piece. Still need glass, and have to put them together.

This is an expensive project.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm gonna have to juggle the sizes around. The little ones may go to 8.5x11 or 11x14.

Some calculating shows that if I can find a cheap source for edges in arbitrary inch lengths (I've seen those on the market, but not so cheaply) I can get pretty exact fits to the images (with no need to fudge borders) at 9x14 or 11x17 and 20x31. But then I have to get involved with cutting and transporting glass or plexi, ugh.

It is, indeed, expensive. Good thing I don't need to worry as much about it turning a profit.