The Framers Forum

Longest shift I ever did lasted from 9am on a Sunday to about lunchtime Tuesday. :? This after doing a very hard two weeks previously and having knocked off about 5am the night before. This was to finish off about 30 frames for an exhibition for an artist who was leaving for Cornwall on the Tuesday....

Thanks for that intel Lynn.

Forewarned in Forearmed.

I like a thrash at MOH now and then. I like the way you can snipe a distant enemy and his mate who is standing right next to him doesn't take a blind bit of notice.

Grizzly bear walks into a Wild West saloon with his arm in a sling.....

"I'm looking for the man who shot my paw!"


If all the woodworms in the world were laid end to end, one of them would wiggle about and spoil it.

There was a big elephant and a small elephant.

The small elephant was the son of the big elephant but the big elephant was not the father of the small elephant.

How come?

How do you tell if you have got elephants?






......big holes in the skirting boards.

Wot I know about woodworm. :roll: The main prob is that you can't tell if wood is infected until the little larva change into adults and emerge leaving the tell-tale holes and dust. They might have been munching away for years and totally destroyed the interior of the wood. If you see holes, then it...

I must admit that I often do the same thing to encourage budding artists. It is sometimes nice to have good artwork to test out new framing ideas on, rather than making lots of samples. It really is a sort of left-handed form of advertising as the artists are more than willing to display a "fra...

I think we are starting to go off on a tandem.

The only sure way to get rid of woodworm is to wack them on the head with a baseball bat or other suitable blunt instrument.

I once heard a story and I can't remember where it came from so it may be a myth, but apparently a moulding company once had a chop service order returned because the chap had wanted 2 10x8 frames and they had sent him 1 8x8 and 1 10x10.

Not all the nutters are on the far side of the counter.

Well I wouldn't have thought so, but it's begining to look that way.

:? Now I may have halucinated the whole episode, but I know Lion used to do woodworm traps. I can't find any trace in current catalogue. I tried a couple once. Didn't catch any. :? But the idea was sound enough. Some chemical stuff was supposed to attract the flying adults into a little box which wa...

That's one of those "When are they having the next millenium?" questions.

I was once offering up some mountboard chevrons to a customers work when they asked if they come in narrower widths.

Ask them if they would go into the chip shop with a piece of batter and ask for a fish to fit it.

Hi Bagel. :P Not sure I can help you as I very rarely use ally nowadays. But I used to get Neilsen chop frames from Rose&Hollis . I have all the chevrons somewhere. :roll: , but they are years out of date. I do remember a polished contrast grey though. I would think the colour is still in the ra...

This is the old conumdrum about a piece of wood with a hole in it. If the wood swells up, does the hole get bigger or smaller?

I have had occaisional invasions of ww, but mercifully not a lot. The trouble is, once you see the holes it means the adult form has left the wood and is looking for another egg-laying site. A strange thing is that they always seem to prefer munching on the more expensive stuff. £8.00 a foot? yum-yu...

It's not the banana-shaped lengths that are so much of a pain than the propeller shaped ones. :shock: Some mouldings seem particually prone to twisting and with obeche the denser the wood the more likely to have a twist. The 'snotwood' bits are always straight. :evil: At one time I used lots nice si...

There is always the exception.

Some priceless paintings in public galleries have bulletproof glass.

On a fragile old painting glass has an unexpecting bonus in saving any paint flakes that may come off.

To my mind, it is the artist's job to do the varnishing. Never varnish a painting without the artist's permission. I will do it if asked, but idealy the painting should be at least six months old. If you varnish too soon the varnish will bond permanently with the paint and can never be stripped off....