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- Fri 10 May, 2024 1:10 pm
- Forum: Business Matters
- Topic: Pricing help
- Replies: 27
- Views: 589
Re: Pricing help
You're buying materials wholesale and adding value by cutting, joining etc. If you're not charging a proper markup on materials then in effect you are supplying them at a wholesale price?!
- Fri 10 May, 2024 12:59 pm
- Forum: Business Matters
- Topic: Pricing help
- Replies: 27
- Views: 589
Re: Pricing help
I'm £105 & £230 no vat. I have a few framers on speed dial and we often price check and compare notes. They're not local to me, but we work to the same standards, so it has helped me ensure I'm not undercharging. When you say you have low overheads, are you sure that you are considering all of t...
- Thu 02 May, 2024 11:01 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hello! Looking for some workshop layout advice.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1244
Re: Hello! Looking for some workshop layout advice.
It's also worth considering, will you need a customer space for presenting samples, creating designs etc. From a customer service as well as health and safety point of view, it is good to limit the space that customers have access to. By setting up a dedicated space near a door, with a table, sample...
- Wed 01 May, 2024 1:37 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hello! Looking for some workshop layout advice.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1244
Re: Hello! Looking for some workshop layout advice.
As important as the size is the height of your work table. I'm 5'11" and I made mine 100cms high, which is a comfortable height to stand at for me. As JFeig said, mine is also made from a sheet of 8'x4'/1.2mx2.4m . That jumbo mount cutter is going to take up a lot of space!
- Wed 24 Apr, 2024 9:07 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: A+Plus A1-M-XL Underpinner - Are they any good ?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 590
Re: A+Plus A1-M-XL Underpinner - Are they any good ?
Best sources for cassese parts, probably underpinner-spares.co.uk or framersequipment.co.uk
- Mon 22 Apr, 2024 1:47 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Sticky question
- Replies: 12
- Views: 988
Re: Sticky question
Offgassing
- Sun 14 Apr, 2024 11:58 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Glazing choices...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 571
Re: Glazing choices...
The recommendation is if it's over 1m2 then go to 3mm. I would be especially wary of using 2mm in a holiday cottage situation.
- Wed 10 Apr, 2024 3:01 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Compressor Replacement ideas?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 363
Re: Compressor Replacement ideas?
Bambi are "silent". Only a bit louder than a fridge. Mine is about a metre away from me when I work. Most compressors I wouldn't want to be in the same room as, let alone have a conversation while it's powering up.
- Tue 09 Apr, 2024 4:13 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Maintenance of Euro underpinner?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 309
Re: Maintenance of Euro underpinner?
Yes that grease sounds good.
- Tue 09 Apr, 2024 10:59 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Maintenance of Euro underpinner?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 309
Re: Maintenance of Euro underpinner?
I think the most important thing is to remove the hammer block every now and again, strip it down clean it and regrease it before replacing it, which reminds me...For releasing the handles you could try a dry lubricant spray?
- Mon 08 Apr, 2024 11:53 pm
- Forum: Business Matters
- Topic: Do you all use some kind of software?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4051
Re: Do you all use some kind of software?
Thing is, if I do a level 1 piece and want to price for volara tape or rebate tape, I can build it in to the software and charge accordingly.
- Mon 08 Apr, 2024 11:49 pm
- Forum: Business Matters
- Topic: Do you all use some kind of software?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4051
Re: Do you all use some kind of software?
Sounds good, I have a framer about 50 miles away to compare prices with. Just to check you're on the right page.
- Sat 06 Apr, 2024 9:21 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Fixing to glass - options sought please?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 637
Re: Fixing to glass - options sought please?
Why use glass as a backboard??
- Fri 05 Apr, 2024 3:44 pm
- Forum: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
- Topic: THAT FRIDAY FEELING!
- Replies: 126
- Views: 1074851
Re: THAT FRIDAY FEELING!
"Buy a Book" or go on a busman's holiday to beautiful West Wales and learn from a Master!
- Wed 03 Apr, 2024 3:30 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Help us, by reporting Spam posts
- Replies: 7
- Views: 797
Re: Help us, by reporting Spam posts
@tudorrose maybe the site needs one of those annoying "not a robot/I am human" verification thingamajigs?
- Wed 03 Apr, 2024 2:17 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Help us, by reporting Spam posts
- Replies: 7
- Views: 797
Re: Help us, by reporting Spam posts
@vintageframes World Domination obviously! Sleeper cells, once a member the AI program has access to the entire database and can improve it's understanding on the subject etc. It seems that this bot mistook picture framing for building framing?? As someone in the ether pointed out, we thought AI was...
- Tue 02 Apr, 2024 9:47 am
- Forum: Business Matters
- Topic: Do you all use some kind of software?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4051
Re: Do you all use some kind of software?
I agree with JonathanB. Your methodology gives me serious red flags. I have followed the adage "charge as much as the market can bear" since my beginnings and even that has been no guarantee of making a living as there are so many other factors involved. But at any one time, knowing that y...
- Mon 25 Mar, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Very deep box frame
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3638
Re: Very deep box frame
I would have a look at Rose & Hollis A333 extendable box frame moulding.
- Fri 22 Mar, 2024 2:33 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Squaring a canvas
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3214
Re: Squaring a canvas
Sounds like you figured out the answer. Having suffered the same pain once, it's now the first thing I check with a square rule every time a canvas comes in. I have had to use slips in the past when there is no way to remedy the canvas.
- Fri 22 Mar, 2024 1:13 pm
- Forum: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
- Topic: THAT FRIDAY FEELING!
- Replies: 126
- Views: 1074851
Re: THAT FRIDAY FEELING!
Aah! That takes me back..." to the paradise city, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty.."!
Looks great!
Looks great!