Thanks for taking the time to make these videos. There aren’t a huge amount of mounting videos out there, so this is appreciated. I’m a self taught framer using mostly YT videos and a few books to guide my way. The way I do it is I center the print in the mat, then weight it down. For the T hinges I assemble each hinge off the print. Then I lift the top edge of each print and slide the t hinge under the print on each side. I then press down on the tape through the print using a loose glove to cover the print. I feel this provides more than enough pressure to ensure good adhesion - the Lineco tape has very good adhesion ( I learned this in the few instances when I tried to remove it). Therefore I’m not concerned about it’s adhesion failing. So it seems burnishing the tape onto the back of print is not needed and just makes the process a bit more difficult (though I like the trick using the silicon pieces). The way, I do it about 1/8” of the non-sticky side of the tape that adheres to the mat slides under the print and there is not the 1/16”area of the sticky part of tape exposed to the bottom of the mat, which I’ve learned can sometimes be a pain when lifting the mat because it will stick to it. I bring this up to hear if there is any disadvantage to how I do it or major advantage to how you do it. I’m trying to figure out the ins and outs for myself and what works best for me. In my process of learning to frame I question whether much of what is taught as “100% essential, you must do it this way or your framing job will be terrible*” is overkill and mostly unnecessary. And the more that is promoted the more of an obstacle this all seems to a beginner. Thanks again for the video. * I’ve browsed a few message boards of professional framers and they very much put forth this attitude.

Fascinating. I’m going to give this a try.

Great content !!

Light Impressions use to make what looked like a T-square that made finding the optical center and center of the mat board super easy... no drawing lines or measuring. But I can't find it anywhere on the internet. It's simply disappeared. Have you seen one of those T-squares?