I just finished building a Contact Printing Frame and UV Light Box for my daughter who is a professional photographer. She has had an interest in alternative photographic processes since college and asked me to build a frame and light box that would allow her to create 20" x 24" platinum or palladium prints. As I started researching I quickly discovered that commercially available frames and light boxes of this size cost over a $1500. So $300 worth of UV lights, ballasts, a fan, 1/4" glass, plywood, lumber, and a few weeks of tinkering later...

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We'll find out next month after I deliver it how the first print turns out.