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Storing comics inside wood?

Started by Mr Pristine-migration,

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comicwiz

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A cedar chest or drawer would be my first choice. One of the nicer silver-age collections I acquired years ago had been stored in short piles in a cedar drawer chest, unbagged and the way those books looked was incredible. Great smell to them too.

 

I have my tresuries stored in these wooden wine crates I picked up from our LCBO:

 

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awakeintheashes

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A cedar chest or drawer would be my first choice. One of the nicer silver-age collections I acquired years ago had been stored in short piles in a cedar drawer chest, unbagged and the way those books look was incredible. Great smell to them too.

 

I have my tresuries stored in these wine crates I picked up from our LCBO:

 

92017.jpg

Great idea. Think I'll look into this.

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kav

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Cedar is terrible for comics it is the most caustic wood for paper products.

There was a thread on this topic

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mschmidt

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Whatever the wood as long as mylar is between the comics and the wood combined with some microchamber paper or emulsion to deal with any possible wood off-gassing you should be fine..... 2c

 

That's just not true at all.

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jaybuck43

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Cedar is terrible for comics it is the most caustic wood for paper products.

There was a thread on this topic

 

Wood is acidic and not going to be the best choice to build a comic box out of.

 

 

Cedar has been shown to be a lovely storage enviornment for comics over the years.

 

 

Show em your box Bill....it's beautiful. <3

 

It is roughly the size of a standard long box and houses the complete run of D. Tracy including giveaways, etc.

 

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mschmidt

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Ok, enough misinformation in this thread.

 

Cedar chests are not a good place to store paper.

 

Cedar off-gasses both highly acidic fumes & oils (part of that lovely cedar smell) which will actively discolor & weaken paper over time.

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Dr. Balls

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Ok, enough misinformation in this thread.

 

Cedar chests are not a good place to store paper.

 

Cedar off-gasses both highly acidic fumes & oils (part of that lovely cedar smell) which will actively discolor & weaken paper over time.

 

:applause:

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The-Collector

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Not sure, The story of Big Apple pedigree was the golden age books were stored in a trunk. Not sure what it was made of and the books had white pages (thumbs u

 

Some of the churches were in a cedar cabinet and, I may be wrong, but I think the same for the Allen Towns and we all know how beautiful those books are.

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kav

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We already went through all this on another thread! $#@!@#!!

 

Repetitive, redundant posts sure are annoying, huh?

Inaccurate, passive aggressive posts even more annoying.

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