The Framers Forum

Thanks very much for your help and pointing me in the right direction.. It is very much appreciated.
Hopefully Arqadia will be able to send me a sample.

Hi all,

Is it possible that anyone can help me ID this moulding please.
It would be very much appeciated.
Thanks in advance.

Hi, some good ideas and food for thought. I like the mainline system. I have a Morso and Mitre cutter but the Mitre cutter I have is not as accurate as I would like (it cuts the correct angle but tends to leave a slighly rounded edge as it addresses the moulding). The moulding would suit as the cust...

Hi all. A customer has five 5" x 7" photographs she would like framing. She would like 3 in one (large) frame, 1 in one (small) frame and 1 in one (small) frame. Sounds easy enough. The difficulty is that she would like the two smaller frames with one photograph each attached to the larger...

Thanks Prospero and Roboframer for putting me right. Sorry for the confusion, but we got there in end.

Thanks Framemaker Richard, it looks like the perfect fit.

It seems i am causing some confusion. I am looking to put space between the artwork and glass. In the Wessex catalogue on page 188 of the ninth edition there are images of strips of wood which are termed fillets. Are these called spacers. Have i got this totally wrong.

Thanks eveyone. I will try each way and see how they look.

What is likely to happen if you just underpin the fillets and do not use any double sided tape.

Thanks for that Prospero. It is very much appreciated. I thought the fillet may need underpinning, but it does not seem necessary if double sided tape is used.
Thanks again.

Hi all. Is there a preffered or only way to insert/fix a fillet in to a frame. What size would you cut the fillet in relation to the frame. Is it a snug fit or are there tolerancies. Thinking about it. I suppose my question is "What is the correct method of inserting a fillet in to a frame"...

Thanks David

Apologies for my lack of knowledge regarding terminology, but I live and learn.
I now know what the 'Hedgehog' technique is.
I should have described the cut out board as the 'fall out'
Was I correct in saying that it was float mounted'?

They are individual postcards. I think the term maybe 'float mounted'. I cut 21 apertures out of the mountboard, 5mm smaller than the postcards on each side and taped the post cards (3 small strips per edge) to the cut out board. Each individual card was then sunk back into it's corresponding apertu...

Try this one.

I framed a set of World Cup Postcards from 1930 to 2010, with a view to selling it at the Saltaire Craft Fair. I sold it quite quickly. A lady asked me if I could make one for her. Because the 1942 and 1946 world cups were not played, due obviously to the second world war, I had left a gap between t...

Thanks David and Steve N for the links. The framed T-Shirts look brilliant. How much time would it take now to frame one T-Shirt with the method you used. I would expect the price of the framed T-Shirts would be two or three times the cost of a standard framed shirt. Thanks again, they really do loo...

Hi. A customer would like a Rugby Shirt framing. He would like to be able to see the front of the shirt and the back of the shirt. Could anyone please educate me as to how this would be done. Are there any images out there that show the final framed shirt. Thanks.

When I left school in 1975 I was employed by a company that was allied to the printing trade. I undertook a 5 year City and Guilds Bookbinding and Print Finishing Apprenticeship and was sent to Kitson College/Leeds Poly on a part time basis. The rest of the time I was at work learning the trade. At ...

Thanks everyone for all your comments. Stretcher moulding is a good idea. I wish I had used these in the first place. It would have saved time and effort. I did actually make one up using the stretcher bars. As you say Roboframer the unpainted area did show but frustratingly enough showed only 2 or ...

A customer asked me to stretch and frame two canvases for his wife's birthday, in two weeks. I had to locate and order a moulding to match a frame he already had. It was further complicated by the artist, who was commissioned to 'oil paint' the canvases, who could not promise delivery because the pa...

My step daughter lives and works in New Zealand. She sent me a blog that the Forum's members may find interesting. The links from the blog tell of the history of framing. Please click on the link. http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/11/11/p ... ge-of-art/