The Framers Forum

I don't do many white frames that require a super smooth finish, most I do are either painted directly on obeche, so wood grain is visible, or are painted on a sanded smooth or natural brush mark gesso. My process for a smooth flat finish is: 1. glue size obeche 2. spray on gesso to completely fill ...

I'm confused... Mark (NYAF) I think kartoffelngeist was making a general comment to the starter of the topic, not you... unless I am the one who is mistaken!?! In fact your detailed reply to the topic posted is kind of showing that there are many things to take into account! and therefore that's why...

I would never stack wedges in oak, I use normal wedges and corners come out good on a minigraf 4 most of the time, the exception being if it's a particularly hard section of timber. Also with wedge position on oak (depending on the actual width of the moulding) I would not go near the back edge as t...

If you are mainly going to us a deep ash or oak frame for nearly all your framing then a Hoffman would be ideal, I've got one and is is very good. But If I was pinning that profile in ash then I would use a pneumatic underpinner, personally I would not like to use a manual underpinner with ash or oa...

I think the mountboard will just get dusty and eventually not look very nice... and the fossil itself will also get dusty.. why not use a glass like Tru Vue Ultravue or Artglass? which often looks virtually invisible.

Sharing this in case some of you not seen this neat idea before Alfa in the corner of a work bench. In the post above yours Keith you can see an alfa in the end of a bench, on a corner like that looks a bit awkward to use to me, the corner of the bench is where you would stand, so you will have to ...

Like David I have one bench which is angled, which has my mountcutter on it, I was not sure about this at first but after a bit of use I really like it. Most of the storage area under my benches is used for antique frames, apart from the glass cutting bench which is used for storing bits of glass, p...

A few things come to mind.. can you post a photo showing the back of the frame join? the catching of the block causing it to drag the corner with it, could be that the wedge is not be fully driven into the wood. The hammer on the minigraf has a small raised section that causes the underpinner wedge ...

Yes Geospectrum the ones from Lion are the Ansell Powerflex 80-600 range, I found them a bit thick but they have very high cut resistance.

We use Ansell Hyflex gloves, they do many different types of work gloves for pretty much every application and industry.They do various gloves specifically for glass handling and cut resistance. http://www.ansell.com/en/Products/Industrial-Gloves-and-Sleeves/Industrial-Gloves.aspx we use the 11-616 ...

I have a single blade mitre saw (an OMGA, similar to the Imnes), I change the blade every 8-12 months or so.

To me it looks like a solid paint base with liming wax brushed on and then quickly wiped off.

Liquitex matte gel is a multi purpose painting medium, I don't think mounting prints to a substrate is its intended primary use, so probably not the best first choice. As Prospero said, double sided tape is not the thing to use. A self adhesive mountboard would probably be the simplest solution. But...

How wide is the rebate on the frames? if this is narrow then the stretched paintings will need to be dead square, I think it's always good to have a generous rebate width with canvases and if the stretcher sticking out the back is a problem then a backing frame can be added, and the sides finished t...

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/c/c-print "...The chemicals are also extremely sensitive to water, light, and heat, making it difficult to protect C-prints from deterioration." In both these topics the sellers of the prints have suggested or specified how they should be handled and fr...

I get this all the time with canvases, especially old ones where the edges are rough, or the stretcher bars are wonky, even many new canvases are very unsquare and need a wider rebate. I just cut the slip or frame at the sight size, then before joining the frame use a table saw to increase the rebat...

It's always good to be able to recommend someone who you have used a few times before, so you know what sort of work they can do. When I used to do work for the public I would often get paintings lined and cleaned etc on behalf of clients, using restorers I had known and used for many years. But I t...

Years ago the FATG used to do surveys for salaries and wages, no idea if they have done one recently but could be worth checking out their website.

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I use these from Rose & Hollis, come in boxes of 100 and they are about 65mm x 10mm brass plated steel, they are easy to bend into shape with two pairs of pliers. Ref number is HG542 and are only about £6 a box

Just out of interest I counted how many operations my Minigraf 4 does before the compressor turns on, the underpinner pressure was set at 65 psi, and with a hydrovane on a 75 litre receiver, the underpinner did 33 operations, or 8.25 frames with one v nail in each corner. Even with variations in lea...