The Framers Forum

I forgot to say thank you for taking the time to reply. It makes perfect sense now.

Chris

Thank you both for your help. I think I will just include the backing board lose in the back and continue to use mountboard for the undermount. On a slightly different note is it a complete no no to hinge to the window mount using one long strip of tape at the stop for less valuable work and if so w...

I am a photographer who sells my work in retail outlets usually in the form of mounted prints. So far I have always been using the same board for my window mount and undermount. But recently when clearing the garage I found a number of my own pictures that I had printed and mounted by three or four ...

I don't want to offend but I am not a fan at all. It took way too long to load for me that if I was a customer I would have hit the back button pretty quickly just to get out of there ( We only get about 3MB internet speed in our village). As has been mentioned Flash is outdated and the site felt qu...

I do have a dehumidifier going too with the Calor gas fire. This normally starts up as soon as I have the fire on and then stops any condensation forming as they do produce lots of moisture. But it does such a good job of heating the space up quickly it only needs to be on for five mins every hour o...

For my insulation I used Kingspan boards from Seconds&co on ebay. I paid about 150 for about 90 boards delivered. The condition was fantastic and I ended up using less than half the boards. I then stuck the other half back on eBay snd got £100 for them. For heating i use a calor gas fire when im...

I would say the problem was definitely worse recently with the cold weather. My workshop is very cold so I did wonder if this could be part of the problem as the glass just felt really brittle. Even when the workshop was a bit warmer though I still had a few too many breakages. I am using 2mm glass ...

I am using a fletcher gold oil cutter and a large glass cutting t suare currently. On one hand I keep thinking of getting a wall mounted cutter as I am breaking too much glass at the moment and I hate lowering the large sheets flat onto the workbench. But on the other hand I really want to master cu...

Does anybody have any tips for cutting large sheets of glass with a handheld cutter? I don't really have any problems when the glass is a bit smaller but when I am cutting larger sheets such as 3ft by 4 ft I often find it wanders off the score line. I was taught only with the smaller sizes and I was...

Thanks for you all for your help, I will pop some P90 on my next order and give sealing the sandwich another go. I placed some white paper on the lip of the moulding and then fired the points in to see if this was the problem and it appears to be. If I cant get on with sealing the sandwich maybe I w...

Thanks for all your replies. The gap I am leaving is about1.5 to 2mm. A lot of the glass I am using is pre cut and already nice and smooth. I have checked a few of the frames out where I had problems as I suspected this was the issue. But there does not seem any evidence of any scratching or marks f...

Here is a quick image from my phone.

I often frame using black mouldings and will find once I have the frame sealed I suddenly notice lots of tiny bits from the black finish have got under the glass. Before I seal the frame it was spotless. At first I thought this may be from the glass scratching against the black finish around the reb...

Thanks for your help guys I really appreciate it.

Chris

I wonder if anyone could help me, I have a panoramic framed image that I need to add the fixings for and it occurred to me I wasn't 100% sure on the best method to use as I have never done any panoramic ones before. the size is 150 cm by 45 cms, would normal D rings and cord work or is it better to ...

Have you tried speaking to Taurus? They sell the parts you need, I spoke to them a few weeks back but they were moving premises at the time.

I'm no expert as I am only just starting out myself, but the underpinner looks the same as mine which is a 292D.

Chris

Hi,

I am new to framing and recently picked up a Taurus 292d underpinner from ebay. Does anyone have any instructions for this underpinner at all. I have emailed Taurus but the emails keep bouncing back.

Thanks
Chris