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It might be helpful to let potential buyers know what size this vacuum press is!

Best wishes,
Mark.

Trying to encourage others, I've always had no car parking facilities close to my shop and the street which runs past my shop has double yellow line. That is how it has been all the time I've been here and the double yellow lines have not closed me down prepiously, so I'm not expecting it to close m...

Yellow lines are slowly killing the business life of our town and My wife and I have to pay over £200 for a permit to car in the car park and we are residents in the town. We have lost so many viable businesses in the town, because the parking charges make it sensible to pay the extra to go to a big...

Learn a lesson from the automotive manufacturing industry, the is twice as much paint on a white car to any other colour of the same car. White paint takes a crazy amount of coats to get a completely uniform finish of just about anything you want a completely white finish on. If you really must do a...

I'm guessing that it probably is Simons 0106/Gold. I've not used it for years, but I looks like it to me.

I don't have too many problems with filling oak. I often fill any narrow gaps with glue and sand the corners to to get the edges perfect and the saw dust from sanding the surfaces of the wood ends up mixing into the glue. Other times I do the same with wax filler mixed to match the colour of the woo...

You only get one chance to embed something into the wall sculpture, so it is at this stage that you get the change to incorporate something that has so long lasting durability. If the hangings are not of sufficient durability, then some kind of repair might be required at a later date, resulting in ...

That's quite a reasonable size and might be appropriate for sticky down onto a cradled plywood panel to give the job an appropriate level of longevity. I am asumming that the age of this canvas issuggesting that it may be intended to be preserve with the long term in view. I am not always regarding ...

I have a few regular customers, who bring in cross stiches and other items of needlework from time to time and several of them come in with the needlework item and I cut either some mountboard, or foam board and they take it away and lace it themselves, then bring it back for me to frame it. I don't...

Hi Jo,

That's interesting, I did not know about the size softening with the heat from your hands, I've learn''t something new today. Thanks very much for that.

Renaisance Mouldings used to do that one, when they were still around. When they closed down, they sold their remaining stock to Centrado, if there is any of is left, perhaps Centrado still have some lurking in some dark corner of the warehouse. There was an antique gold version of the same moulding...

No, I don't think that you are being too fussy! I am fussy too! The problem is that people are either right handed, or left handed and this often pulls the cross stitch out of square a bit and sometimes you have to correct this by dampening the reverse of the cross stitch a little and stretching the...

Hi Colin, Have you had a look at the mouldings made by Wessex Pictures using Koto? Koto is a wood that is not completely dissimilar to oak, but without having the banding effect in the grain, that you don't much like. I'm planning on getting some of These mouldings from Wessex Pictures, because I wa...

We certainly get plenty of varied experience and expertese in this game, don't we!

A bit of heat and a bit of pressure is generally a good combination, as the heat makes the self adhesive board nice and sticky. Also if you don't have a hot press, then perhaps you can use an electric iron instead. I've done this on occasions, with difficult jobs and if you are really careful it can...

Thanks Justin, It's great to get glimpses into other members thinking and perspectives, I find you comments very helpful too and learn a lot from other who are doing things that are different to me, or have a different perspective to myself. I am hoping to provide some proper training seassons, prob...

Before I started my own business, I worked in the framing workshop of a well known framers, as a training placement arrivanged through the job cetre via the governments employment servive. The normal methom of mounting fabric items for framing was to use self adhesive board and after linning up the ...

I am now working out which contrasting colours will work best , with a few more display chevron samples. I kind of thinking that maybe I will made the base coat black in each case, with peaks of the graining highlighted in tan (as per the photo), muted red, muted mid green and perhaps a muted blue g...

I particularly prefer glass and I have to admit that I don't do very much sending frames by post, but there are times when there is not a lot of choice about it. I always criss-cross the glass with PVC insulation tape, it has a very good type of self adhesive on it and is easily removed at the other...

It is not just one moulding, but is the comibnation of one moulding with the addition of a deep sloping slip inside the dutch style moulding. As far as I can tell the main moulding is Simons 7676//44, or Rose and Hollis A644, both of these mouldings are in fact exactly the same moulding as far as I ...