How to mount artistic displays?

[jamesd]

Question here,

How would one mount an insect in an artistic display?

I know it can be done without a pin through the thorax with a riker-mount board.
Can it be done with a pin through the the thorax (not on a riker-mount board), Is that ever done?

Thanks.

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[nomihoudai]

All you want to know is here :

insectnet.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=281

Besides if you are not from USA Riker mounts are hard to get and cost $$, in my very beginning of collecting I once tried getting some without any success.

[jamesd]

Yeah, why should a piece of wood, plastic and glass cost so much? Low demand I suppose.

I don't understand though, what's the glue for if you use pins?

[wingedwishes]

See this archive thread:

www.insectnet.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=read_count&om=2237&forum=DCForumID1

[nomihoudai]

The glue is to keep the butterfly from rotating, you never know what might happen to it when not glued and it is a pain in the ass to reopen a sealed shadow frame again. Furthermore it costs $$ and you won't have much left after a repair.