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I’m looking for a source of black shadowboxes, mostly 8 x 10 size. I use them for small scale metal sculptures. I used to get them at Hobby Lobby, where they were reasonably priced, but they stopped carrying the style I liked. Ditto Michael’s.  Now most of the ones they carry have a padded insert, the padding part of which is not removable. The old backs were thick, stable masonite: I sprayed them matte black and then drew on them with colored pencils to accompany the sculpture. Cutting out a new back for these is not going to happen. Plus the black ones are now, not painted wood, but some kind of composite resin or cardboard coated with black vinyl, like contact paper. Very cheesy!  The only real wood ones with plain insert they have now are roughly textured grey barn wood, hardly my thing, even if I painted them black, the texture is all wrong.

Plain, simple, black, real wood, no padding: that’s all I’m asking for. Unfortunately I don't use so many that I can make a real wholesale order, assuming I could find them in the first place. Thanks!