THE "STATE OF MONTANA" FRAMING AN OVERSIZE (2 PIECE) MAP

 This oversized Map of Montana was a two piece project and had to be spliced together.

 Both of the inside edges had excess paper on them and had to be trimmed off so that the two edges would come together to create the appearance that it was all one piece of paper.

Trimming off the inside edges
this process was also done to the other
side of the map

 After some thought we found that we should leave 1/4" of the right side of the boarder to allow the left side to overlap by 1/4".  This was needed to be done so as not to have any gapping down the center where the two piece met up with each other.

Figuring out how to make this happen

Due to its size, and allowing for the ease of positioning this large map, it was then mounted on two separate pieces of foam core and the foam was trimmed off all the way around both pieces.

Notice how the edge is overlapped by 1/4"

If you look closely
you can see the printing of the map
 does not go all the way to the edge on this piece.

The two pieces were then mounted again to another piece of board to give it rigidness and extra support.  (not shown)

A flat liner was used to keep the glazing (a conservation acrylic due to size and weight) 

off of the map itself.  This is to protected the map from mold and mildew often present due to 

climate changes in a piece after time.

A close up was taken to show the seam where the two pieces came together.  

The completed piece after framing
(If it where not for the color difference of the two pieces of paper it would be hard to
notice the seam at all)