The Framers Forum

Hi all, I have just recieved a letter from my current glass supplier who informs me glass prices will rise by 25% from May 2010.....After i called them they told me every glass supplier in the uk will be doing the same. Has anyone else heard of this as it seems to be quite a hike and will cost me ap...

Well my pallet of mountboard arrived today along with the exta mountboard i got to replace the pallet until it came in around the 22nd Dec, but Arqadia called me to say they would uplift the extra board......I do know they are around the best to deal with as regards their website, but sometimes even...

Thanks your right it wasnt in earlier today and it seems they didnt know themselves when it was coming in, they told me up to the 22nd December and i ordered yesterday another board as a replacement on the strength of it.....So come on Arqadia play the game i spend a small fortune every month with y...

As luck would have it, first thing monday morning the Arqadia rep phoned and asked if he could visit.....YES PLEASE! when he came we hashed out the mountboard straight away and found an alternitave which to me seems exactly the same just a differant name and not in the catalogue.....with a back orde...

Thanks for that, I have never tried wessex but i will do if i get no joy from Arqadia today.

Thanks for the replys....Seems to me that the suppliers and the bigger the company the worse they are, never seem to offer alternatives......WHY!!!! do they want your business or not? if no alternative is offered then off we go to someone else and may well then stay with them till they run out of wh...

Thanks Robo< i will ask on monday but when i phoned them it seems sorry but no go on that, still maybe the rep can sort something out....and yes Duplex is ivory one side and white the other......just a bummer when you cant rely on your supplier for continuity of stock....Due in on the 2nd yesterday ...

Thanks John, I never got the mountboard from Ashworths, and yes i have tried the edinburgh branch but to be honest i have never in ten years found that branch to be very helpful always seems as though your just bothering them.....i should also say that ashworths in general have been great in the pas...

Hi, I use a lot of Duplex mountboard whitecore from Arquadia, it seems they have no stock left and they wont have it till christamas, Does anyone know where else i can get the same board at around the same price? i got an order of it in from another supplier who told me it was duplex although slight...

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I use Simons quite a lot. ordering up to a couple of thousand feet at a time, and i normally want it overnight, I can say it usually does arrive, although the carriers sometimes screw up. The only real niggle i have with them is that their computor system is not up to speed and they wont automatical...

Now there is a man after my own heart, the right knee trick....I do this when i have a difficult piece to cut. I do find that the blades move on certain finishes ie resin thats a bug**r, and hard on blades too.....Thank god for the mitre saw....hope you got the handle off ok Robo and all is well now...

MORSO DANCE! i love it.... I guess if your holding the moulding on the right hand side then the blades will move back on the last shave, but im happy not to hold it and its fine for me, just what you get used to....as for auto pilot i know what you mean (Repetitive strain) my wee leg go like a pisto...

I cut ovals the same way (FREEHAND) but if its large i lay the glass on the bench frame on top with a marker draw on the glass inside the rebate then cut it that way, sometimes if you have the glass at the edge of the bench you can turn the glass with one hand keeping the other more or less still......

one thing i forgot to say about the charnwood.....the rebate supports do not go back as far as the morso and i had to grind them on the back to let them slide back just that little bit further and the same supports dont fit as well as morso but causes no problems.....Anyone from Charnwood that reads...

I replaced the handle on mines about ten years ago, I think what i did was moved the handle to get at the nuts having firstly undone the chrome plate and sliding it forward......I put a new handle on that i got from lion but within a very short time this on too had worn the lug off, i then adapted t...

Hi Robo, looks like you win on this one. Sold as 120m long 800mm wide 17 pounds a roll and they claim it as conservation, wrapping no gauge thickness given, but it is heavier than the florists stuff i used to use.

I just got a couple of rolls from Arquadia.....I think its a bit cheaper than other wholesalers too....The florists film is thinner and not just so good...

I would suggest nylon tags put through the stitches, this wont damage the waistcoat and you could if you wanted add some wadding to pad the body out, also if you have a cmc you can shape a mount to hug the waistcoat looks great done like this and with NO significant damage if any, box it up and put ...

Birdman wrote.......If we do re-glaze jobs then we never charge less than for a new frame. As you say it is more work dismantling, cleaning, minor repairs, getting rid of the awful sticky tape or masking tape, etc and then putting it all back together again. If the frame has to be repaired as well t...