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    Drew Wiley
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    Re: Any advice on cutting your own museum glass?

    Optically coated acrylic is the ideal choice, but it's ridiculously expensive for routine use. I don't use any kind of tinted allegedly UV-protective plastics. For one reason, their pinkish or yellowish tint spoils certain hues, especially blue and cyan Second, from my own testing, it seems they offer only a very minor amount of UV protection which is hardly a substitute for proper lighting devoid of UV to begin with, or at least low in UV. Back when I tested em with Cibachrome, there was only about a 5% improvement in the rate of dye fading.

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    Re: Any advice on cutting your own museum glass?

    Get it cut to YOUR standard size by a Pro

    I buy plate glass to my exact size by the 100's

    https://www.howardglass.com/
    Tin Can

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    Re: Any advice on cutting your own museum glass?

    Quote Originally Posted by Tin Can View Post
    Get it cut to YOUR standard size by a Pro

    I buy plate glass to my exact size by the 100's

    https://www.howardglass.com/
    That's great if your buying 100s of pieces.. but anywhere that says Request a Quote is not going be economical for small batch runs. Cutting glass yourself isn't hard, neither is taking it to the framing shop and paying for the cuts.

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