The Framers Forum

I've never had any problems with the gummed brown tape not staying stuck. This may be due to the fact that I let it stand for a minuite or two while it gets good and sticky. I must admit that I've never used it on plastic mouldings, I just don't like plastic mouldings anyway! The funny thing with th...

Hi All, I've never felt 100% happy with any of the backing tapes I've used. For a long time I used the Kikisui tape sold by Lion as their "K" tape and liked it very much. I was also very pleased when some time ago Lion made it available in the 75mm width too. Then while a couple of custome...

Restoration work was a major part of the work I had to do when I used to work as a bookbinder. Suprisingly, no one ever wanted to pay what it cost to do it when I was bookbinding, but now the money side is usually much less of a problem. In case you are wondering, I get the mono-filament from Empres...

Hi John, Thanks for the welcome. I often take on jobs like hand finished antique style frames with multiple stacked mouldings, framing things which are about to fall apart with age and anything which I fancy doing just to show off a bit. I'll probably grow out of it one day and only do sensible thin...

Hi Everybody, I just thought I would introduce myself. I'm Mark, based in South Devon. My forum name is "Not your average framer" mostly because I'm willing to do lots of jobs that others have the sense to avoid. Also as you get to know me, I have a crazy sense of humour too! My original c...