If you're willing to come over to the East Bay, I've found Creative Framing in Oakland does as good a job as the super high end places at a more reasonable price.

I have some great luck with Dan @ Edgewise (Mission)

I've used Tom at Dimitroff's frame shop (just across the bridge in Tiburon) for the better part of 20 years now. He's blessed with an eye for his craft and his work is second to none. Great guy to deal with too, highly recommended.

Any other reco's, or is the consensus that Dimitroff's is the only way to go?

After my last experience where I didn't have a strong referral for a framer, I'm now in search of one . I live near San Francisco, and have a few prints I'm interested in float mounting. Who should I be using? Thanks!

Yup, there's no framer in SF I'd recommend more. They work with some of the best galleries and museums around, as well as printers like Crown Point Press. As long as you can stomach the bill, you'll be extremely happy with the results. Ask to speak to Chris...

I've been going to Aaron Brothers. So yeah, I'm looking for a good SF framer too. Aaron Bros are just fine for the cheaper things, but I'm not so sure I want to use them for my newer, nicer prints.

I checked out Underglass this past weekend in the Castro area. I've also been to their Hayes location. Judging by the things I saw framed there and waiting for pickup, they look pretty good. The person helping me found me a frame similar to what I was looking for, then priced it out with varying grades of glass/acrylic. Still ended up being too much $ for me (I don't want to pay 2x the cost of my print for the framing), but there was at least one sub-1k option in there.

Walter Adams near Pac Heights may end up getting my business. The woman working there was really helpful, and she gave a pricing option more in line with what I was expecting... 700-800ish.

If you want to feel really poor, check out Aedicule right around the corner from there. No joke, I was told that framing my print with a Rococo style gold frame was going to cost me $10k+. (For context, I'm trying to frame my Ben Eine "Charming" print, and want a decorative gold frame on it.) That's too bad, because those frames looked so impressive and they provided exactly what I had been envisioning.

I've been going to Cadre for about 10 years now (http://www.cadre-sf.com/) for my framing needs. They are not the cheapest, but I often get TruView Optium so that is more than half the cost right there. I found out about them back in 2006 when I went to several galleries in the Jackson Square area and asked them who did their framing. Most of them said Cadre so I figured I would give them a shot. They have a reviews section on their site if you want to see who they have worked with and what people have to say.

That is absurd. I was able to get my Katrin Fridricks, which is 5'x5' with plexi for $1000. That includes a nice 3" Italian Molding Frame and Black Silk Fabric wrapped around an additional frame to add depth inside.

Keep looking around.

It's worth checking up in marin about 10 mins over the GG in tiburon with Tom Craig at Dimitroff's. I lived in town for nearly 20 years (my family left town last november) and must have framed 75-100 works with his help over the years. His work was outstanding and there was a lot of stuff I went overboard and I never approached the prices you're suggesting above. Large 4x3 foot museum glass, corner-less hand made Roma frames were ~$4k from memory and that was for spare no expense, over the top framing. Most of the stuff was knockout work, framed for a fraction of the above and always to archival with museum glass. He's got an eye that I loved and a wonderful taste in art and music. Just a perfect gent and a dear friend that I highly recommend. He's revered in the grateful dead community with a strong sense of family and simply my kind of guy. Sincere and never going to overcharge and a very talented tradesman. If you happen to stop in please tell him I said hello. Good luck

That's lovely to read, thank you.  We have been well thanks, and hope you have too.  We relocated to hawaii a day before that shocking election outcome last year and really digging it here.  But, with a family to manage, exploring a new way of life and moving both in and out of a rental house into a permanent home (been moving for nearly a month now which is a younger man's sport) we've been distracted albeit in a nice way.  Alls well though thanks and hope to have more spare time going forward.  I hope those of you in SF that have the means have considered hitting up walled off.  It's a 15 hour direct flight to and from which was fairly easy all things considered and an eye opening experience. Apologies for diverting the thread...

I've used these guys recently for prints. They were te cheapest I could find from all the quotes I gotfor simple black wood frames:
fastframe.com/sanfrancisco/

It's incredible to hear how much
Framing prices are. I've only used a professional framer once, but find self framing to be not too difficult. There are many threads on EB and here about self framing including videos on float framing and using ricepaper and such...I usr America Frames.com and the most I've paid was 250 for oversized frames and conservation materials.

Ok, bringing this thread back to see if anyone here has used Underglass at Church and 15th (Castro area). I now live only a few blocks from there, so it is really convenient, and I've seen some recognizable "urban" art inside. I trust opinions here more than through yelp.