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Hi Dermot
The gesso is a synthetic mix that most manufacturers use
It's not great to gold on with water gilding but is fine for paints etc

I'm on the verge of offering a gesso service amongst other things
Watch this space!

Frinton gallery bought over compo mouldings a while back and still sell pre gessoed moulding to the trade
The codes in my previous post are from their website

The moulding is from frinton formerly compo moulding and will be on their website
I would guess that a simple satin car spray would do it but do three light coats to stop any runs
Leave quite a few hours between coats.
Code is either F1 or F2 depending on the width you want

That's a great idea Ross.
I'll be in touch sometime so we can get our wizard working to full potential
Tim

Cheers Ross thanks for the offer
All the best

Thanks for replying.much appreciated
We'll give it a go

Hi all
I've got an issue with a Wizard 9000
It has started cutting out mid cut on the final outer edge cut
Pressure seems fine and I have tried increasing it slightly
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

Hi Alan. I'll have that please
I will pm you with info for address etc. Thanks
Tim

Where are you based?

Museum transport co.uk
Phil and Karen.
They offer professional installation and storage
I've used them on large projects before
Really good and the prices weren't silly either

Thanks Jerome

This one predominantly goes to our friend across the water , Jerome But also to anyone who has a contact in the US We framed a piece for a gallery in London which had been shipped to LA , Brentwood in fact, There's a tiny bit of damage to the actual painting. It's on a piece of hardboard/ MDF which ...

Have you asked the customer how he or she intends to collect it
I've had that issue before
Next things is " can you deliver it"?

Split batten would work as well if there's enough room in the rebate

If I had to offer any advice I would say start simple Just a wax on oak is a start It's great for stock control with a large range of moulding finishes For example,if you have one moulding in ten finishes you finish the moulding as it's sold So instead of holding say 50 feet or 15 metres in each fin...

No problem with the questions Usually a customer has no idea what they are after when they come in However,my daughter calls it champagne taste with a prosecco purse when the oggle at the 23 carat gold but don't want to spend that amount recently I had someone in who thought £40 for a 16 x 12 canvas...

Hi Dermot When I took over we had 10 hand finished samples. Over the years I have steered into hand finished frames because of my admiration of framers from the 16 th to 19 th century and a keen interest to learn how it's done. It's been a slow progression but enjoyable We now have about 500 samples...

Hi Dermot and thanks justintime for your comments I forget to post as I finish one job there's usually another waiting to start I'm happy if anyone is up this way to come and see the set up and swap ideas. I'm lucky that my youngest daughter has the interest and aptitude to do not only Instagram but...

We've been busy with all sorts of projects and frames so we have updated the website.
Some of these we have done for other framers
www.kingswoodframes.com
All the best to all

the phone number doesn't seem to work
is it correct?