Pierce through beetles in collections?

 
Here's what's interesting: it seems that transparent celluloid dies are really more convenient and practical. Then the question arises: why did foreign merchants from entomology not set up the production of such dies, but sell opaque cardboard ones?

But no one answered this question of mine. At least who would put forward a version, from those who use celluloid? What, zabugorniki-enemies of progress? I don't think so. After all, they also brought us the fashion to glue 5-centimeter beetles on dies!  

And there will be no problems with the strength? I remember that the strength of celluloid glue wanted much better, sometimes the insect eventually fell off itself.

It seems to me that celluloid substrates are not durable. After a couple of decades, they may deform and become cloudy. If you change the pin for any reason, the hole will crack and turn black. In any case, such triangles of the 50s that I have at my disposal look very unpresentable, as I described above.
Plastic is plastic, and cardboard is a time-tested thing! You can also use paper for photo printers with a large number of densities of 190.

Normal plastic is a very durable thing, cooler in this sense than cardboard. PVA on plastic holds securely.

Duc, after all, why are not such dies available for sale by manufacturers of entomological equipment? So, there is still a minus sign that stops you? Eh?

Perhaps a high production cost?

Citizens, use transparent celluloid dies! Nothing is etched into them and the taped area of the beetle is visible!

I don't think so. The plastic that many people use for DIY projects, most often in the field of its application in general, is a consumable material, and, most likely, not much more expensive than cardboard. And then, even if it is more expensive, but much more functional, cardboard dies ((so to speak, publicly available) and celluloid ("elite") would be produced. After all, there are pins "black" and "white"? Birch and mahogany boxes?

Duc, after all, why are not such dies available for sale by manufacturers of entomological equipment? So, there is still a minus sign that stops you? Eh?

Isn't it just a simple fashion statement and following well-established stereotypes?

Here were issued and probably are issued

I've never seen them sold anywhere! I asked specifically! I would love to buy it, my time is precious to me

And if they are not produced, it means that the reason is not in adherence to stereotypes, but in something else.

in general, dies are produced and sold, and it is strange that someone has not heard about it at all.. Few people stick on their dies. They were even present at the congress, but there was little interest in them. I would like to buy some dies, but it's not convenient to order them yet. and at the congress there were only large ones..
But I haven't seen plastic dies on sale - probably not a convenient and expensive production..

The reason is probably that when shooting a beetle on a photo object, the die reflects light (flash), so they stamp all the paper ones.Yes and pi soaking paper gets wet, while plastic does...

Interestingly, and abroad (I mean everything that is outside the former USSR) is glued to celluloid dies? Who knows?

  http://www.cerambycidae.cz/offer.htm
although here you can see that many beetles have been on pins... People came to their senses, the material, in my opinion, is exemplary
they sell dies, and you can find them in Entomon or No. 1. Naturally, in Europe, it is more likely that no one will do it themselves - when they are very affordable. I think we have a die-cutting machine in Zina - Vleri Derzhansky showed me the dies he once cut there.

  No need to argue glue or prick.And so I think it's clear that
not pricked beetles are better than pricked ones.
It's like A=A.Only pricked beetle not = not pricked

I tried to glue beetles on dies made of transparent plastic-mounting matte film If you accidentally touch a pin in the box with your finger, from a sharp jerk of the pin, the beetle can fly off the die. I've had this happen many times. On the cardboard, the beetle is held firmly, there are no questions. Therefore, now only genital preparations are glued to transparent plastic.

I pierce the big ones