The Framers Forum

It's often easier to commission a replacement frame than to repair a badly damaged frame. A difficult repair tends to really push the cost of repair up a lot. Quite a lot of these frames include nails that you don't known are there, which can destroy your razor saw, or a router bit in a instant, wit...

Is there such a thing available?

That's a very demanding repair job to do and does not just involve a significant level of skill, but also the appropriate tools for the job as well. Even if you were experienced at doing this sort of work, this is not an easy and straight forward job to undertake. The finished repair needs to have s...

On a larger frame a webbing strap beats a mitre vice most days of the week and it pulls all the corners together really tight. You will have to not do it up too tightly at first, so that the corners can be properly aligned before fully tightening. I have some cheap Blackspur webbing stars, they are ...

I dont usually buy "L" shaped canvas tray profiles at all, but make them up from two standard flat mouldings joined to from the "L" shaped profile. I have a fairly varied stock of mouldings and find this has advantages of both convenience and a little more flexibility of how I fix everything togethe...

Hi, You PM'd me about this and I'm sorry that I haven't replied yet, I typed a reply lost my connection to the forum and all I had typed which was a PITA. First I want to point out that some artworks are just to thin and flexible to keep flat by just normal float mounting and the lack of some stiffn...

I,m not expecting to be making gesso, but I am learning quite a bit just reading this thread. Great thread!

Hobby level equipment is just that. It is produce to sell at a price which hobbyists will be happy to pay and that means compromises to met an acceptable price. If you are expecting to do anything other than low volume framing, your rate of getting the work out of the door is likely to become a limi...

I would bet that too, but I don't know for sure what it is. So I was not going to say so.

Hi Chris, That's a very interesting question. Is this filler in a tube, or a jar? I suspect that anything which has gone hard in a tube, probably is a bit of a lost cause, but something in a glass jar may, or may not be possible to revive to a usable state by soaking it with a suitable solvent. Unfo...

I would not total say ignore the comments about avoiding hobby equipment. There are some items of hobby level equipment which are not so bad, but there's some stuff that's best to recognise as better, or worse than others and some items that members may like to warn others about why they wish they h...

Hi Dermot, I would not claim to be doing things at the same level as yourself, I do bits of wood machining which enable me to produce larger profiles, or custom profile to suit customer requirements. Quite often I'm looking to pack out the space between a couple of mouldings stacked together just to...

I don't think that we had a thread to cover the sort of equipment to suit those who are serious about getting set up with the necessary equipment to enable them to undertake framing at a level that produces a reasonable quality of frames and mounts, etc., but within a limited financial budget. This ...

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Thank you Dermt for your suggestions about buying Rose & Hollis stretcher bars, as a source for a good quality pine. I did not think about it too much at first, but I remembered to check the price today and just wanted to thank you for your suggestion. I think that is going to be particularly helpfu...

A major challenge with any hand operated joiner is going to be if you try to join woods requiring the most force to insert the wedges. Although there are some models of hand joiners, which are supposed to be able to insert stacked wedges, it would be wise to be aware that the force to insert two wed...

Mark (NYAF) where are you, this is right up your street :rock: Yes, but there are smells and smells. Maybe the treatment for different smells are not the same. The sure fire way to sort this is to clean the pages with chloromine T. Organisations like the British Library are equipped to wash the pag...

A lot of the pine that was used on older furniture was stone pine, or pitch pine. It was pretty tough stuff and some of the wood removed from demolished buildings is more, or less the same stuff. The trouble these day is that all of places expect crazy money for the stuff, it's got a bit trendy thes...

It is amazing what you learn on this forum.

Pine is a real favorite with me for certain uses, in particularly for stacked moulding frames, when using profiles in pine which are not to badly affected with knots. There are some pine moulding that hardly ever seem to have any knots at all, while there seem to be some profiles that have lots of k...