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by vintage frames
Thu 14 Mar, 2024 3:03 pm
Forum: Business Matters
Topic: Welsh businesses - new recycling laws
Replies: 9
Views: 369

Re: Welsh businesses - new recycling laws

I don't think the government is going to barge in and fine you for any waste recycling misdeeds. Any local enforcement of the rules would be contracted out to local councils. Your business is of micro size. Will anyone care what's in your black bag? Is someone going to go through it looking for the ...
by vintage frames
Thu 14 Mar, 2024 1:15 pm
Forum: Business Matters
Topic: Welsh businesses - new recycling laws
Replies: 9
Views: 369

Re: Welsh businesses - new recycling laws

I would do as they say, verbally ie stick it in general waste.
If they haven't issued a formal direction, that means they know that there are no facilities yet available to deal with that type of waste.
by vintage frames
Sun 03 Mar, 2024 8:42 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Oak supplier advice
Replies: 28
Views: 217096

Re: Oak supplier advice

Oh dear. That's some pretty dodgey oak. I've never seen it that colour and the wood grain is pretty ropey too. If you're stuck with it then the best thing is to stain it dark and call it antique oak. Buy a bottle of this stuff - https://bolgers.co.uk/collections/wood-dyes/products/country-oak-water-...
by vintage frames
Sat 02 Mar, 2024 10:15 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Chop saw thoughts
Replies: 6
Views: 213

Re: Chop saw thoughts

All the framing mitre saws are belt driven off the motors.
by vintage frames
Fri 01 Mar, 2024 1:10 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Chop saw thoughts
Replies: 6
Views: 213

Re: Chop saw thoughts

As Justintime said, the older the saw, the less 'bells and whistles', the better the cut, - even if the blades are knackered from wear! If you only use barewood mouldings, then a good chop saw will actually do because you can fill for any wobbles of the saw blade. Prospero has an arrangement of two ...
by vintage frames
Mon 26 Feb, 2024 7:47 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Oak supplier advice
Replies: 28
Views: 217096

Re: Oak supplier advice

You could be right.
The sawmill will slice through the logs in the most cost-effective fashion but in doing so will also expose some boards within the figured/ quarter-sawn plain.
Perhaps a good moulding company will select these boards from the pile and use them to produce their mouldings.
Or not!
by vintage frames
Mon 26 Feb, 2024 4:55 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Oak supplier advice
Replies: 28
Views: 217096

Re: Oak supplier advice

This is a question I've often wondered about. Is the oak that framers buy from R&H et al, quarter-sawn faced oak? That is where you see the medullary rays streaking across the grain, sometimes called fiqured oak. This oak will have the finest grain pattern and be of cabinet quality. All the oak ...
by vintage frames
Tue 20 Feb, 2024 10:26 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Bright red flat moulding 50mm or wider
Replies: 4
Views: 272

Re: Bright red flat moulding 50mm or wider

Fitz has given you the most pragmatic advice. I notice that you have an interest in classic car restoration. So why not make the frame first with a 50mm wide plain wood moulding. Then mix up some two-part wood or car filler and scrape it evenly along the top surface of the moulding. After it's dried...
by vintage frames
Mon 12 Feb, 2024 10:14 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Best product or method to fill holes on bare frame ?
Replies: 11
Views: 698

Re: Best product or method to fill holes on bare frame ?

Yep, that's the stuff. You could paint it on with a paintbrush. Diluting 50/50 with meths always gives best results. But then you have to go to the bother of cleaning out the paintbrush. For this I would fold a bit of cotton into a small pad, tip on some shellac from the bottle and smear it over the...
by vintage frames
Sun 11 Feb, 2024 7:14 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Best product or method to fill holes on bare frame ?
Replies: 11
Views: 698

Re: Best product or method to fill holes on bare frame ?

Once the wood filler has dried, try adding a little shellac over the filler. Use a cloth to just rub some on.
The liming wax should go on to that the same as the timber.
by vintage frames
Sun 11 Feb, 2024 4:38 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: How is this moulding effect achieved?
Replies: 5
Views: 370

Re: How is this moulding effect achieved?

If it is a hand finished moulding then you could get close by taking some bare-wood oak and drenching the surface with very hot water. Keep doing it a few times so as to soften the fibres. Then go at it with a wire brush, along the length of the grain. This should create that raised grain effect. An...
by vintage frames
Thu 25 Jan, 2024 10:34 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What extra ‘must have’ equipment would you recommend?
Replies: 15
Views: 1003

Re: What extra ‘must have’ equipment would you recommend?

A cheap basic compressor like the one you mentioned on Toolstation will give you lots of compressed air but will rattle like hell when running. You could put it in the loo, out of the way and that could help. All compressor fittings are universal and you can run the air hose as long a distance as yo...
by vintage frames
Wed 24 Jan, 2024 10:10 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What extra ‘must have’ equipment would you recommend?
Replies: 15
Views: 1003

Re: What extra ‘must have’ equipment would you recommend?

As already said, - a compressor.
£150 should do it.
by vintage frames
Tue 23 Jan, 2024 1:17 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: framing silk scarves
Replies: 5
Views: 486

Re: framing silk scarves

You've probably heard this from me before but I too once had to frame 12 large antique silk scarves. And they were very valuable too. I gave them to a local 'stitching and bitching' group who sewed them onto sheets of plain calico. I think they charged a few hundred pounds but was money well spent. ...
by vintage frames
Sat 20 Jan, 2024 4:22 pm
Forum: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Topic: J M Turner
Replies: 5
Views: 1652

Re: J M Turner

Good point but looking at the frame, I doubt it had any value relative to the cost of framing the original. It's obviously some sort of design device that museums and curators are well used to using. I've seen it before but never remarked on it. I'm just curious if any knows the thinking behind it. ...
by vintage frames
Sat 20 Jan, 2024 4:10 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Assembling a large mirror 1600x700mm
Replies: 6
Views: 709

Re: Assembling a large mirror 1600x700mm

I think you should make a sturdy sub-frame and fix the mirror to it with blobs of silicone. 4mm mirror that size will show reflection distortions if not fully supported and flat. 12mm mdf will be unnecessarily heavy and with no guarantee that it remains flat. The surrounding frame profile should onl...
by vintage frames
Sat 20 Jan, 2024 3:07 pm
Forum: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Topic: J M Turner
Replies: 5
Views: 1652

Re: J M Turner

Thanks, John, for pointing out the YouTube video. I understand your point about standardising the frame sizes to accommodate different art works, but I'm not sure if that was what was happening in the example I've shown, In the video, at 6.15m in, they show a set of three frames displayed on a slope...
by vintage frames
Sat 20 Jan, 2024 1:04 pm
Forum: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Topic: J M Turner
Replies: 5
Views: 1652

J M Turner

Fullscreen capture 20012024 123533 PM.bmp.jpg This is a screen-shot from an Instagram post about an exhibition of Turner's art, being held in Munich. The painting is a small watercolour and is being exhibited alongside several of the artist's larger oil paintings. I would imagine that this might be...
by vintage frames
Thu 18 Jan, 2024 3:03 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Sealing packages
Replies: 12
Views: 945

Re: Sealing packages

20 years is fine for a good quality masking tape - maybe. My own experience of opening up packages that were from a lot earlier age is that the tape had baked in hard and was a real labour to remove from the glass. And that was an issue because I always wanted to re-use the original crown glass. On ...
by vintage frames
Thu 18 Jan, 2024 1:08 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Sealing packages
Replies: 12
Views: 945

Re: Sealing packages

If you can allow the time in your work schedule to do it then why not? It's a good thing to do and it certainly doesn't do any harm. There's always the chance the there's a bit of dust hidden in the frame rebates and these can drop down into the glass /board sandwich. Sealing the sides will obviousl...