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The mountboard sample chosen by the customer was Crescent 3340 Manor White. It was smooth board, chosen to contrast with the heavily textured paper on which the art is painted. So I ordered the board, but what has arrived is a textured board. Both the sample and the board carry the official number a...

MarkR32 wrote:Customer has asked for it to be glued to the soundboard

That'll ruin his piano

If you don't have too far to travel between customers, it might be a good way to start off. I don't advertise a mobile service as such, but I often drop work off to customers, and it's not uncommon for them to give me a picture to take back, put some framing recommendations together and then go back...

Thanks prospero, that's good to know

poliopete wrote: David, as for clearing my cache - if I knew what it was I'd clear it

Are you on a PC or a Mac?

Quick question - If Plexiglas is used directly against a poster, will it cause any damage to the poster in the long run? Is it any different if Plexiglas is used against a photograph, watercolour or acrylic painting?

Thanks.

^ I've just had an eye test that looked like that. "Which colour looks the most prominent, the red or the cream?" Changes lens. "Now which colour looks the most prominent?" Repeat ad nauseam.

Welcome Tom

@ David - those colours look perfect, thanks for posting that. Thanks for all the replies. I'm going to see if I can get samples of the museum solids - there look to be several colours there that will be suitable. I think I'd need to spend some time experimenting with hand-colouring mounts before su...

A customer has shown me a vintage print he's thinking of having framed. A white-core mount would look out of place, but I'm not sure what cream-core mount to get as I don't normally use cream-core so I haven't got any samples. I see Daler Rowney do a PH neutral cream-core mountboard in a range of co...

Seriously, I think we all would be just as concerned as the op if our mitres looked like that. Yes of course, if they looked like that *after* they'd been glued and pinned. But the OP has said that after gluing and pinning, the gaps disappear. So what I don't understand, is why there's a problem if...

I think you're overthinking it and making work for yourself! Gluing and pinning isn't so much a remedy to a problem as a procedure in the normal course of events. If the gap disappears (from both front and back) after gluing and pinning, I would consider it a job well done!

All really good points, many thanks

These are all very helpful suggestions which have given me some pointers, thank you

I'm not bad at cutting glass, but only small sizes, up to 20" x 16". Bigger than that, I get it cut at a local glass merchant. I watch them do it, and they cut very large pieces of glass in exactly the same way that I do. Lay it on a padded table, score it with what looks to be exactly the...

For example, if you think about many really clever TV adverts that make you laugh....and yet you may not even recall the product? I think you're confusing generic advertising with branding strategy. There are plenty of companies that have a branding strategy which promotes a lifestyle, for instance...

FWIW I've got an oil painting which was painted 45 years ago and is unglazed. The colours still look unfaded to me, although I don't know whether the colours under the frame would be different.

I might think about using V mount strips, and hopefully the experts will say whether these would be suitable.

Forgive me for asking, but before you go to the expense of printing 1000s of generic stickers, do you know that 1000s of picture framers would use them? Any promotion I do has my own logo, branding, message and design because I want to differentiate my service from that of competititors as well as p...

Wow! Thanks for showing us the finished job, it looks very impressive.