The Framers Forum

Hi John,

Great idea!
I will only be available on the Tues evening - hope this suits you, John and any others who can come along.
Have a good show in Vegas and hope your seminars are sold out!

Pack your long johns - it's cold here - car covered in ice each morning!

Keith

Patrick He is a woman! BTW I only posted this because I was so surprised to see this notice. I was about to tell the lady - thats no way to talk to your customers. But then I thought hang on a minute. She will think "Who does he think he is? Telling me how to run my frame shop!" Much bette...

Hello Framing Norah,

Well I just clicked www.ormondsframing.com and was blown away with Osgoods site.

As he is a regular on this forum, perhaps he will add his comments

Keith

We see and hear a lot about web sites. One thing which strikes me on my travels is that the best frame shops-also have good web sites. Here is a collection of framers who I believe have got it right. Browse a few and I'm sure you will not only be surprised, but also get fired up to emulate them Mayb...

I saw a notice in a frame shop last week, telling customers that they would be charged extra if the job were difficult, and thought ..all framers must be in the same boat at sometime.....what to quote when you are not sure how long a difficult job might take. I'm interested to hear what other framer...

I have just visited a contract framer who has "pallets" of off cuts. He has founda novel way of recycling......... He chops them into small pieces and they are used for "horse bedding" !! But the framer doesn't know what happens after the horses have finished with it! Keith Hewitt

I suggest you phone your local school art dept. They usually are glad of mount board off cuts. Your waste maybe their gold! I know of one framer who cuts it all to about 10 x 8 ins and puts it in poly bags and sell sit for £1.00 bag in the local art shop. Both ideas worth a try before you buy a shre...

WOW!
Now we all know what you guys do when you've got tired of posting on TFF
Dermot see you Monday pm!

Keith

I've had a reply from Richard Clarke, which I will copy, edit and paste below. ============================================ Dear Keith, Just to let you know that I have now finished my educational and working role for Keencut. I thought that I had done my time and felt like a change. We have I might...

This thread is about Keencut machines, and Keencut blades so I am going to send a link to this topic to Richard Clarke. Richard is the guy who demonstrates Keencut at Spring Fair and many international framing shows as well. He is well placed to add his views and opinions. It will be interesting to ...

John, You asked me by e-mail if Slater Harrison would be promoting this Forum to UK framers as per my suggestion. No they will not, because they cant! S.H. only sell through distributors. They do not sell direct to framers. But I will send an e-mail to all my overseas distributors and ask them to fo...

On another thread there was a discussion about ways of promoting this forum. We need more members, and preferably more who are willing to post. And not just UK, there is a big world out there! (The UK is only 4% of the worlds purchasing power) The most frequently asked question I get as I travel the...

We need to think of ways to promote this Forum to framers not just in UK, but overseas as well. I dont know if any of you used the Colourmount Year Planner during 2006, but it included a list of web sites helpful to framers. Unfortunately this Forum was not included which I regret. As 30,000 of thes...

Can anyone explain why on earth The Picture Business saw the need to start a second forum? :? Having looked at the site it only has 4 active members, Agony aka Pete Bingham, Richard Clarke, Curv and our "own" Roboframer. Since it started in 12 th Nov 2006 there has been a total of 6 posts!...

I am overseas and cant get my e-mail server to work, so just Googled "Framers Forums" to find this site, and instead this came up first http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-2619.html I read that an artist finds a frame shop intimidating just because there are a lot of mouldi...

I was in a frame shop and a little old lady came in to pick up 2 pictures. The owner said "That will be £60, so she wrote out a cheque for £120". As the door closed his wife said " I don't think we are charging enough!" Same shop a few weeks earlier the owner told me he was comin...

A Scotsman was walking thru Glasgow with a Wellington on his penis. A
policeman stopped him and asked what he was doing, he replied "Just fooking aboot !!"

Keith Hewitt

May I make a suggestion? Lets call a truce until Feb 2007 - no more FATG bashing for 10 weeks until Spring Fair at B'ham. Then those of you who have complaints/suggestions about FATG go along to FATG stand and have a face to face. It is obvious they are never going to answer your complaints on this ...

I always remember my dear friend Agner Pedersen, (past MD of Danlist/Morso) once telling me he could easily tell a prospect from user just by shaking hands with them. The prospects still had all their fingers intact, the customers had bits missing! So it is true! The blades are sharp, even when they...

Dear Lemon Drop, I want to make it clear I was and never intended to" promote " the deep bevel tapes.I was just doing some market research. We at Colourmount are not framers. We had the concept of tapes and needed to know .... 1) How would framers use them, just to cover bevels or to wrap ...