Featured Blog Posts

Elevate your artwork with custom greeting card printing from SecondMoonshot. Using Red River Paper stocks, archival inks, matching envelopes, and clear protective sleeves, we craft retail-ready cards with optional back branding and low-volume flexibility.

Discover how SecondMoonshot Custom Picture Framing sources authentic vintage Maxell "Blown Away" 2-page magazine print ads for high-end preservation framing in the Rolesville and Wake Forest, NC area.

Discover how SecondMoonshot combines custom conservation framing practices with a pragmatic approach—delivering true archival art protection without unnecessary markup or complexity.

Just a pictorial walk around the shop of SecondMoonshot with some annotation. Quick and dirty.

Learn the difference between preservation and conservation framing. SecondMoonshot offers tailored, museum-grade framing in Wake Forest & Rolesville, NC with a Lifetime Workmanship & Materials Guarantee.

This is a walk-through of mounting and framing an asphalt remnant from the Raleigh Speedway (1952-1958) in a shadowbox style frame.

Checkpoint #1 on what is working and what needs improvement.

This is a quick blog post to go over my build of my poster washing and rinsing tray.

This is my DIY build of a Suction / Vacuum Table for Paper Conservation / Restoration.

This is a quick blog post to document my recipe for a combined cleaning and deacidify solution for posters and general paper conservation.

Learn how a former software developer bypassed expensive SEO and GSO agencies to build a national fine art gallery on Wix. A step-by-step guide to integrating Google Merchant Center, automating product descriptions with AI, and ranking secondary market prints.

I discuss the process of design and build for a framing of an original Duane Raver acrylic painting.

Details about this special ad campaign by Duesenberg and framing the complete set of original ads.

SecondMoonshot offers striplining service with canvas stretching and cross-stitch/needlepoint mounting. We discuss the common challenges and how we accomplish this.

Custom canvas stretching in Rolesville & Wake Forest, NC. Explore Basswood strainers & turnbuckle stretchers backed by SecondMoonshot's Lifetime Guarantee.

A living digest of best practices and specific details of poster linen-backing. Part II - Building a Canvas Frame

A living digest of best practices and specific details of poster linen-backing. Part I - Getting Started

Learn how SecondMoonshot Custom Picture Framing uses research-backed, conservation-grade methods to elevate and protect iconic vintage Steve Steigman Blown Away posters.

Phase I of paper-backing two high altitude photo images of Ground Zero 9/11 in Manhattan taken on October 2001.

Walkthrough of mounting an oversized burlap-backed Egyptian papyrus.