The Framers Forum

This is the help forum for EstLite & BBEst, you probably won't get help here for other software!

If I grudgingly accept Microsoft's warnings about getting a Windows 11 PC, will Estlite work on it?

Where have all the swept frames (and oval frames for that matter) gone? I presume a manufacturer has closed down but all the suppliers I have checked have got virtually nothing left.
I am looking for a 12x16 or 12x15 Black Swept Frame - would anyone happen to have one tucked away in their workshop ...

Hi,
Before I buy new, I wondered if anyone had any Gallery Rail Hanging system they no longer use, or some offcuts. I only need about 2-3m to do one wall. Any variety considered!
Thanks for looking.
Jo

That is my inclination NIck, it's certainly not my place to decide it is wrong, the customer should have checked it when they received it and I'm just doing what they have asked me to do. I do query spellings if I am asked to order an engraved plaque or print text but that is while I am still ...

I found the seller on 'Not On The HIgh Street' and you add your own personalisation so the customer must have typed it in like that. But the text box says add your text here, for example: Home is where the heart is...
I feel like it should have been the NOTHS seller that picked it up or it is in ...

I've had this job in - would you question it? Is the customer always right?!!

StevenG wrote: Thu 03 Nov, 2022 11:44 am For records etc we usually use paper fasteners. I'd like to think they'd also work with CD's - I can't remember the size of the hole though

Something like these.....
https://amzn.eu/d/07kjX4O

Blast from the past - didn't know you could still buy them!!

A customer has just asked me to frame four CDs (cases and discs) so I went straight to Lion who used to sell CD mounting studs only to find they don't any more. :( Does anyone know if I can source these from somewhere else? Or does someone have four gathering dust somewhere that I could buy?

Is it ...

About 27 years by my reckoning! When I was 22 the framer my father-in-law used offered me a job after I dropped out of university and didn't know what else to do. I figured it would do for a few months until I found a 'proper' job :lol: I stayed there for 7 years and then wondered why I wasn't just ...

Wessex (Leamington) said it is £12.50 +VAT but they go down to Bournemouth to be sharpened so for me it would be about a 3 week turnaround. They do collect and deliver with orders on their local vans though so that would save the cost and hassle of postage. I'll be giving them a try I think!

I use saw and tooling in Edinburgh after having similar problems with various companies,
They are very good.
Hope this helps
Dave


Lion have just recommended them to me. How do they compare price wise? I didn't even know Wessex offered the service. Good to read the recommendations here.

Saw ...

At leaste 2 hours, do you have space, and can you get out of the door when done :giggle: :sweating:


I have just stretched a 1.9m square canvas and have standard doors - I'm putting a small edging frame around it but had to check t wasn't too big to get it out of the shop!! I had to stand on my ...

And Wessex haven't actually got any... Have Centrado?

I've got a backlog of 2 or 3 weeks work I reckon so I'll be clearing that and arranging payment on the phone, collections at the door. I've been working by appointment anyway so customers are getting used to calling me first. Got a few people dropping off work today and tomorrow to do as and when ...

Ah thanks! Will try it. I had a feeling I had seen something previously but just couldn't find it...

Yes, worked nicely, able to remove a few duplicates. But when the same number comes up under Croft and Cross, it's hard to know which was wrong!!

Hello,
Is there a way to merge the customers I have accidentally put in twice?
Thanks,
Jo

Sorry, been busy! Not really urgent, it's only a minor thing.

Hi John,

I have noticed an odd quirk in my EstLite. When I tick the 'collected' check boxes, if it is the last job on the list, it ticks off the one above instead of the correct one. It took me a while to figure out where a job that should have been on the Jobs Ready For Collection list had ...

I stumbled across this Mackenzie Thorpe print on eBay - who thinks that this would look perfectly fine in a new frame and mount as the description suggests?!!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/362879209764 ... 2879209764