The Framers Forum

Intersting discussion .. I can understand the usual presentation of paper art - frame, glass, mount board, art. It all looks okay. But then I looked at the photo Justintime posted, where he created a sort of cabinet effect by adding spacers underneath the glass. I liked it a lot - and not just becau...

Cor! That looks good.
I bet your customer was pleased.

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Oh dear - what are you using to cut the glass? If you havn't already, buy a professional glass cutter such as a Toyo. Then practice for half an hour or so on some clean float off-cuts. Dip the cutter in some White Spirit between cuts. This keeps the cutter lubricated and the spirit cleans and evapor...

OK, maybe not .. Further work on a fine Victorian neo-classical frame chosen to fit a Scottish ruralist artist from the late 1800's. The story here is that the customer has a painting by William Darling McKay which came in an awful 1970's repro frame and he'd been looking for ages for a suitable fra...

I think you might have got something interesting there. There's quite a bit of scope for you to create a range of finishes unique to your workshops. A few pointers - Have a look at this guy's instagram. There's a lot on there and you have to scroll back to around 2022 and earlier. https://www.instag...

That looks really good, Justin.

I too was wondering which wood you've used.
Have you tried it on other timbers?

I also noticed that most of the charring is on the outer edge. Can you control the burn like that?

Justin is more the man to give good advice on mount design but I can only say what first strikes me as an observer. The photo is too boxed-in by the heavy mount. Forget the shadow effect and just use a thinner mount first and then follow with a thick mount but set back further so that the image gets...

I think the term now used is a 'cold roll laminator'. This is where the roll of adhesive film is mounted above the rollers and is fed into the machine as the rollers are turned. Something like this one - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276594418253?_skw=cold+roll+laminator&itmmeta=01JQS78CKWTD9NX9GQE...

Many years ago when I had a retail shop, we used a hand roll cold laminator to stick posters down on to pulp board, and then close framed them for resale.
We sold lots.

Ebay has some cheap affordable cold laminators and Lion sell the pulp board.

OK, first of all Morocco. Absolutely no criticism of your framing work. Everything looks skillfully made and correct, but - I see too much framing. My eye is wandering around the outside of the mount and not drawn to examine the artwork. It all looks like something you'd see hanging in a hospital co...

One way round it is to see if there is a local disabled work-shop in your area.
They often have a shrink wrapping set up as part if their services.
Ask your local authority, as they usually help fund them.

Maybe go on ebay where there's sure to be a cheap one and spray it black with some car-paint.

I would go for the first unit on the right. If you move there, you are really going to get yourself noticed. Go for lots of flowers, shrubbery on the outside. Big dramatic window displays. Tasteful nudes - everyone notices pictures of nudes. But - if you are only going to open three days a week, don...

Thanks Prospero - much appreciated.

That's what I would suggest.

Thank you for all the likes.
Always a lovely feeling.
It was fun to do and now he wants some more.

I hope I havn't drawn too much attention to your stash of wheat-starch, Justin.
Bro only wants to fix up his local users.

Medullary rays. Those would be described as prime cut oak. Do as justintime suggests; set them aside and up-sell them to your discerning customers. They appear on an incidental basis, when an oak log is planked. This is when they just shove the oak tree into the saw-mill and take out the greatest nu...

IMG_0010.JPG More fun with the spindle moulder. This was for a dealer who had this little oil painting on an oak panel and he wanted to have the edges showing so as not to look too boxed in, What I did was attach four small foam-board tiles to the back and floated it on to some black mount board. T...

Underpinning or cross nailing will hold the mitres together but if you want to get the strongest glue bond then a band clamp is essential in that the pressure achieved forces the glue deeper into the cellular structure of the wood.