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Hello All, Once again I am asking for help - so sorry! A customer wants to float frame a large (expensive £1000's) painting on plywood. Dimensions are 180cmx125cmx5.2cm (HxWxD). It has a sort of subframe but has leant against a wall for a few years so is slightly bowed. I have suggested she lays it ...

How serendipitous for me that you are trialling protection methods without glass at this time. It is all so interesting. Thank you for taking the time to provide so much detail and the images. I have passed your comments onto the artist. Thankfully she has not asked me to seal her work in this way. ...

Thanks for the very valuable and interesting input from all, especially Gill the Painter!

I feel better armed for a chat with the lovely artist later this week. Every day is a school day

Thank you for your reply!

I feel relieved you think her prep of MDF is adequate. I will ask about the wax and I will chat about other boards with her next week.

Beyond my knowledge base so hoping you lovely lot will be able to advise please. A customer wants to frame her mainly acrylic with ink on paper art in a more 'contemporary' way, namely in tray frames, or at least without glass. She is currently experimenting thus; Firstly I have only been experiment...

Lovely frame from L&J. Customer thinks it will look fabulous on his work he is picking up on Sunday. Can't cut the thing, it is too wide and too tall to get the blade over it. Tried turning it around but still have the same problem. Any ideas? I have a Morso F. I have raised the blade as there w...

Thank you both! I had done both of those things to no avail. Got more grumpy, loaded it onto another puter, whilst at home, paid my subscription, did what I needed. Carried out a speed test (FramR suggested my broadband speed was too low) 700+Mbps upload & download in the house but 50Mbps in the...

I tried to renew my subscription to FramR unsuccessfully. I click the 'Subscribe' button but the payment gateway does not open, just replaces the current page. I tied to access the FramR Help page but a popup informed me 'The server cannot be reached. A connection to the internet is required to acce...