These topics must have been cover ad nauseam, but
throw this lazy youngster a bone.
Ok, so you get these gorgeous cel from an Ebay,
Yahoo, cel website, etc. It comes packed in a cel
bag with drawing. What do you do about the
following?
1. Original Cel Bag
a. No cel should have the indignity of being
housed in an old cel bag, besides the atmosphere
in the old bag is bad. Can you say old, sweaty,
sock stench? The cel should be transferred to a
new cel bag.
b. Who cares how old the cel bag is? It's free,
and the cel is used to it anyway.
2. Staples
a. Take them out, they may rust.
b. Take them out, are you crazy? The cels will
fall apart. To keep them together you'd have to
use that stupid tape stuff. Anyway the staples
are stainless steel. They should last quite some
time if they are kept away from moisture.
3. Dirt,Dust, Paint Rub from Background on Cel
a. Clean the cel gently with a cotton swab and
Agent X. (By the way, what Agent X do you use?)
b. Don't touch the cel. Even the gentlest
cleaning will scratch the surface.
4. Scanning
a. Take the cel out of the bag and then scan.
After all, when you have your picture taken do you
have a bag over your head.
b. Scan the cel in the cel bag. As long as the
cel bag is clear, the scan will be fine.
5. Cel Bagging Drawings & Backgrounds
a. Yep, bag everything. If people bagged their
teeth, they wouldn't turn yellow.
b. It's nuts to bag everything, just leave the
drawings and background in the supposedly acid
free cel book behind the cel.
6. Cel "slightly" stuck to drawing
a. Use surgical procedure number one (hair dryer,
freezer, fingers, etc), immediately get the cel
away from the drawing.
b. Leave them together. In the future, cel
archaeologists will discover a way to extract cels
from drawings without causing damage to either.
The archaeologist will refer to those collectors
that insisted on tearing drawings apart from cels
as "those insane butchers".
Thanks in advance for your wisdom.
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