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Hi Steve, no offence taken, honestly I'm a founder member of one online forum and member of others and completely understand the frustration of members not responding to on their own threads. It's something I try not to do but sadly Internet connection around here is only slightly better than mobile...

OK, had to be away for a few days and it looks like I have not explained myself well. Right as has been mentioned I'm possably a bit of a one off. I'm a full time parent with children at school. Outside of school time 9am to 3pm, frankly I don't have any free time. I was lucky enough to get a job in...

Thank you all for your input, I'm in a bit of an odd position because I don't have any intention of making profit from it if I'm honest I just don't have a "business head" so really I want to spend as little as possible. My current thinking is a mount cutter first, that will let me do thin...

Welcome to the Framers Forum Tinweasel. See you list hobbies as MTB. As I'm of a certain age to me MTB = Motor Torpedo Boats. :rofl: Well that's a first for FF :clap: Well don’t rule it out, I have an interest in military history and loads of interesting memorabilia/rubbish tucked away. I’m also re...

So I have been working in a framing workshop for around a year now, frankly I love every minute of it! We are part of a gallery which has its own corporate look and most of our work is framing stock for the gallery or customers artwork which is to be done in "our style" which means that pr...

We had a 1:72 scale halifax bomber come in for framing the other day, not one of the airfix plastic kits but a Corgi diecast job. It's the first time I have even thought about a project like this, I haven't had a chance to measure it up yet but I know the wingspan must be something like 400mm and it...

Thanks for the welcome, I look forward to learning as much as I can.

Hi everyone, I'm fairly new to framing having taken a part time job at a local gallery.

I have spent a lot of time lurking around the forum and admiring everybody's work, looks like I have much more to learn than I realised.

Many thanks

Shaun