Thread: Y/G Escher is as fine as...

Originally Posted by DaveW

I may end up attaching it to a board at some point, anyway, just because I'd rather have it on a board like that. The buyer had the same thought (that affixing it to a base won't help) because my reaction was that I would take it back and just glue it to a board.

IIRC Glen glued or epoxied his escher to a piece of plexiglass. The label is still visible while the stone is protected and reinforced.

I was thinking of putting it in something quartersawn (which would make it stable), like maybe cocobolo, and leaving enough of a cutout in the middle of the back so that you could still read the label.

You could lacquer or epoxy the sides so no moist can come into the crack.

It's lacquered. The buyer lacquered it before noticing the cracks. Moisture can make it under the crack from the top, though, but the stone itself is still pretty static right now (i.e., nothing is going to flake off in the next day or month or anything).

The cracks aren't an issue with function, more something that's offputting to a buyer because if the stone decides to leaf off a shard in a year or 2, you're stuck with it at that point as a buyer.