The Framers Forum

Hi Ive just been asked for a quote from a professional artist. He has smallish watercolours on thickish paper and wants 'float' mounting with no overlap of the top matt. He's shown me an example of previous work by another framer and the work is tightly fixed to the mountboard . Obviously he wants c...

I have stretched a few canvasses successfully with usual equipment- canvas pliers etc- but I have been given a print on canvas to stretch and on first inspection the canvas seems very non pliable. I can see it might be difficult to get a nice tight and square wrap round to the back. (It's not going ...

Thais for advice . I ended up getting some stuff from Fred Aldous called 'rub n 'buff' . It comes in different metallic hues and it's a kind of wax that sets hard. You can buff it up to a shine. Repair almost invisible.

I am framing a very large painting with a very expensive moulding and having cut out the lengths I have notice a small (4mm) chip out of the gold/pewter border. I must have missed it on my usual check on unwrapping. Any ideas about the possibility of an invisible touch up? I've bought some tubes of ...

Ok Thanks for those comments

John

I'm framing some A2 size watercolours and have been asked to use acrylic as they are going to be mailed. Is 2mm thick enough or would I be better with 3mm for sufficient rigidity?

Thanks

John

Thanks- I tried to view your 'In case of emergency...... but couldn't get the image up!

i was interested in you comment about your 'customer Facebook page' how does that work? Is it just that your customers are your friends on that page?

I've just completed this James Bond display for which the customer requested back lighting of the film cells. This has been a massive learning curve and I welcome any comments /suggestions as to how I could have done it better!! I've used LED tape cut into short strips of 3 LED lights and joined in ...

Thanks Mark( and sorry Ive not replied earlier.) Does that mean that if I have some kind of support from the back for the pages to rest on- e.g. a bracket made out of persplex, that I wouldn't need to support the front cover itself ? This would enable me to conceal the support. By the way the books ...

I am constructing a shadow box of James Bond memorabilia including 4 signed 1st edition Ian fleming hard back books.

Any ideas about how to secure the books without damage?

Thanks

Thanks Roboframer. Good points. - I think I will need to use a fillet at the back as the L shaped frames are very costly and the customer wants a 'cheap' job!

Hi I have read the discussion about backing/not backing framed canvasses and noted the pros and cons. I have not framed canvasses before and so have a probably more elementary question! My customer -a professional artist- requires 12 1mx1m mixed media canvasses framing and she wants very simple non ...

Thanks for that . Yes I agree I'd prefer not show the insert but maybe a matching colour rather than the usual black. Good idea using just a small piece for the neck area.

Hi, I am framing my first football shirt. I notice that sometimes shirts are framed with the label showing and others where it is covered by the board insert. I think showing looks better but in this case the label is an orangey colour which really clashes with the Burnley claret and blue colours. S...

Thanks for all replies- very useful.

Any ideas about a neat and reliable way of fixing, when the frame sandwich is deeper than the rebate. Ive seen a system on a You tube video which seems to insert what looks like a little metal wedge between backing board and moulding but have not seen anything in the catalogues. I don't like having ...

I am framing some large posters and want to use a type of metal frame I've seen which has little plates in a groove at the corners that you tighten up with grub screws having assembled the frame.

Does any one know what these are called and where I can source them online?

Thanks

john

Many thanks to all who helped with this. We managed to get enough tension by just stitching the work through the matt as its thin cotton- tea towel weight. It seems to have worked! But I can see that stitching it to another backing fabric and lace that behind would also be a good solution. Cheers john

Thanks that is definitely an option.

Many thanks for that very quick reply. Just the advice I needed! I imagine its necessary to stitch all the way round as gravity won't be enough as its thin material- tea towel thickness.

Regards

John