The Framers Forum

I'm in East Sussex near Eastbourne
But can travel of course...

Lots of new samples coming means a better option for displaying them presently.

If you have one spare, and wish to receive some beer tokens for it, please let me know.
Many thanks
Vernon

Funnily enough...my LH pedal bolt gave it up this week.
No thread left after 28 years!

I have just put a handy bolt and nut in its place and is fine.
This may help you little

Love this Keith!

I will never stress about lost mountboard ever again....well, maybe not.
Vernon

If you have plenty of wall space, why not try renting the wall out? A metre at a time vertically for instance.....artists don't often understand (or turn a blind eye) to how running a gallery works and thus "try it on". Add to that, most have facebook and Instagram accounts and etsy of cou...

Thank you very much, email sent.

Yep the 1940s one

Hello Keith

Do you have any left please?

Created a kitchen garden...very small though
Taken cuttings from everywhere and planted the blighters.

In fact the garden has rather taken over everything!

Started a range of paintings
Watched 'Whisky Galore!'

Hello Tinweasel.....stick with doing up the LR instead, it will be worth more in the end and fun driving it.

Vernon (long term LR fetishist)

It seems a few suppliers are open for business at this strange time. After 33 years of framing work, I sort of consider it my lifeline, however I appreciate the government advice on covid 19 and just checking again their pages on the subject, we as framers surely fit into the "non-essential &qu...

I'm also just starting out and I can see that it may be awkward to ask for a deposit or full payment beforehand if the client is a friend or a local business owner whom you know and have previously done business with, but otherwise I don't see a problem with asking for it. As long as you ask polite...

JohnMcafee wrote:If you still have your heart set on using the Z clips, a shield such as this, made from a scrap of aluminium, will save you some grief.

Blimey, very mission impossible.
I use a piece of waste mountboard...

Bit of history. Up to about the year 1995 most of the mount boards used in Denmark were all painted by hand, with a roller, including the bevel edge Framers bought one white board and probably 2.5mm - 3.0 mm caliper in size 100 x 140cms. Big tub of white wall paper emulsion, plus lots of little con...

prospero wrote:

Perfectly sensible!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In8RyM1xDVY&t If you skip to 1:30 ish you can see me using it and I reckon it was mdf when I got this video made. Your bench Peter....too low! Your back must play up after a long day or it will do as you get older :( I'm just over 6'3 and my bench top is 39 1/2 i...

Nice puddy cat.

Had me chuckling all the way through.

No disrespect intended to the lady. or the cat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9q23geHyTw

Nielsen Bainbridge....

Keith Hewitt wrote: I'm sure if you tell the supplier they will replace FOC.

Nielsen in my experience are very good.
(so are Wessex)

brian_uk1 wrote:I fixed it, the problem was a lose allen bolt had come loose on the part that the wedges slide into and it was getting caught.

Thanks anyway

Brian

Good to hear!
nothing worse than a machine not working.