The Framers Forum

When an artist looks at a picture the first thing they see is the art. When a framer looks at a picture the first thing they look at is the framing. When a customer looks at a picture they see the overall decor. Commercially all these things need to come together to increase the possibility of a sal...

The other product I came across was from Frame On. The app is free but it requires Filemaker v11 which costs about £28. There is a free Filemaker v12 but the author has not converted his app to be compatible. So at the moment this app doesn't appear to be going anywhere (IMO). I have now updated th...

Perhaps you should offer an incentive on your home page. Maybe: 20% off first order; buy one frame get the next 1/2 price; Free 6x4 photo frame with first order, etc. If your web site is your shop window then you should realy do what shops do to get people through the door in the way of incentives. ...

For people interested in iPads check out this on Jim's website.

http://www.framingmentor.com/forums?Thread=25

Richard

She was more concerned that the dust extractor for my saw ( which is not a requirement to have) had not been inspected by a specialist in the last 18 months. (I just offered to cease using it!) Probably because finely divided dust particles are explosive so the potential for harm from a dust extrac...

The only customer I have had that I definitely know came via yellow pages was a holiday home owner who was down to get ready for the season and had knocked a picture off the wall. Yellow pages was all they had available to find someone to reframe it. I do have an entry on yell.com and Thompson local...

I use the Lion ones. Can't fault them. The morso f is fine for deep rebates but not in hard woods.

Richard

I drive a VW Caddy Maxi Life. This has two rows of seats in the back. You can take the back row out and fold the second row forward so it becomes a van. We can take the family and grandchildren out, move pictures etc. and put the mountain bikes in the back. The interior is fitted out like a car rath...

The timber will be kiln dried to a moisture content that is averaged for the condition under which it is going to be used so timber specified for furniture use would be ok for framing work. However the timber will dry out or take on moisture according to local variation - central heating, air condit...

Are you planning on converting the timber yourself? Have a look on Wikipedia about different methods of conversion particularly rift sawn and quarter sawn boards so you know what to specify if you are buying in ready cut timber. It is best to rack up the timber once bought to allow it to normalise t...

If you want the profiles to be available in photoshop: users/your username/library/ColorSync/profiles/yourprofile.icc

If you put them in the global ColorSync library on the hard disk then they won't be available when you log on as a user.

Hope this helps

Richard

PSS wrote:I have not used a router before but it looks like it can work out OK...

You really need to look at a spindle moulder rather than a router if you want to produce your own mouldings.

Richard

Have a look at:

http://www.allposters.co.uk/-st/Impress ... c1132_.htm

I can produce many of these but not at their prices.

Richard

Seems it has opened up quite a debate!! Thanks you for all your advice...much apprieciated and has been very helpful. Very valid point about the software though...something to consider! I am currently working on a pricing software to run on the iPad, iPhone. I am hoping to offer this for free to fo...

bigger than a3 gets very expensive as a scanner, better off setting up a studio type space to photograph them in I use photo stitching software: PTgui. You can use a small scanner to create the image in sections and then stitch them together on the computer. Save scanned images as TIFF files, set t...

Is it possible to move various links on the board appart more? I use my iPad to access the forum and it is very easy to keep going to the wrong place when clicking (tapping) links that are next to each other. The particular one that causes trouble is the topic title which is very close to the link f...

In the meantime, I'm on an iPad and can't save the manual. Do you have a copy that you could email me? That way i could print it off for any future dramas i have with it. Cheers again mate If you have the iBooks app just tap on the open PDF file and choose 'Open in iBooks' from the pop up bar at th...

Doesn't work on my iPad so don't know how 21st century this is?

What I have found: The 1.6/1.7m to picture centre looks good. My picture rails are at 2m so this means top edge of pictures are at about 100mm below rail. All the pictures need to be hung with top edges at same height - irrespective of size. Picture rail hooks push the hanging away from the wall by ...

I am restoring the picture rails in my 1930's bungalow that were ripped out before we moved in. When positioning the D rings and measuring wire length to hang the pictures from the rails it is easy to do by trial and error. However if it was for a customer I would be interested to know if there is a...