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that sounds very thorough never heard of using wedges but wont stop them sagging over a longish horizontal stretch surely?

the staples Ive seen were put through the top edge at an angle so you dont see them, thx for that, glue.

by spacers I mean fillets, can be paper wrapped in a box frame, I cant staple as some people do as I have no compressor and have been using double sided tape. Is there a sort of tape which will last longer than another? I guess the longer the strip the longer it will last rather than just putting a ...

thanks for that, we are not doing volume at all so I think I will stick with doing it with carefully placed screws, havent got the room for a compressor of any size anyway.

I am trying to find what sort of staple gun fires staples at an angle through the backboard into the moulding to help keep the frame rigid when the budget does not extend to a sub frame. I have a suspicion they might all need an air compressor but at the moment I dont even know what one is called!

I have no idea about that, see if she can give you a failed pic or a sample of paper with the same pastels on it to test?

Is the customer the artist? As far as I know to dry mount original artwork is a no no unless it is the artists decision as it will reduce the value considerably. Of course the customer is always right, but sometimes they make mistakes!

Hi Sarah You have probably worked this out by now as is it a while since you posted but just in case this might be useful. the most important thing I have learned about floating prints especially if on fairly heavy paper 300gsm or more is to put the archival tape through the mount board rather than ...

All advice gratefully received and digested! I will be making some bigger frames about twice the size and those will definitely have a subframe.

Thanks so much you all, some great stuff here even if I dont quite understand some of it! the diagram of the angle of hanging cords very interesting, will affect how long I make the cord in the future definitely. I will rivet the D rings to the back board, and have put a 6 x 5/8 screw angled through...

found them, bifurcated rivets!

a sub frame would obviously be best but not a lot of room as i have 12mm slips and too much work tbh. i agree the moulding is too thin to put hanging fixings on, it would prob split. what are the fixings you put in the back board called? so i can buy some and see if i can put them in without buying ...

I had an idea which might be quite clever or really stupid, I suspect the latter as I havent seen it done. I am working with quite thin moulding, 35mm deep but only 13mm on the face and 8 or so on the base if thats the word. a 50x70cm landscape frame will have a tendency for the bottom wood to sag a...

Oh sorry, yes not terribly coherent I admit, what I meant was that a lot of cheap frames have the artwork in direct contact with the glass and so of course any moisture getting in there will probably dissolve the ink or paint and cause it to stick to the glass, a box frame will do the same as a wind...

Hi there, business very up and down, totally unpredictable, did ok at the Art Car Boot Fair in september but things very slow now, hoping the cat and dog show 'Bollocks and Pyjamas' raising money for Hackney food bank will be a bit livelier. all the best!

Looks like a very interesting forum.. We are a small gallery in Stoke Newington, North London specialising in but not limited to original prints. We get our frames made by E frame and we order a variety of sizes to meet or customers needs so that most of the time they can choose a print and collect ...