The Framers Forum

I made some phone calls today and got some more specific answers about box board today. First, the distributor I spoke to originally says, yes you can use box board as a barrier paper, but it does not officially comply with fine art trade guild standards as it is not manufactured specifically to do ...

Hi John, Why brown? Well, I was thinking more about the fact that the vegetable dyed surface paper over time can fade to grey and looks just like grey board, which looks rather cheap and nasty. A first sight a faded grey board could suggest to others that it is not a quality framing job. The custome...

John, box board is a solid white, very smooth china clay load board, which is available from just about every picture framing distributor. One of the best known ones is called Simwhite which is 600 microns thick (0.6mm). Come to think about it "Art-bak conservation" which I use only on sma...

Hi All, This week I spoke to a member of staff at well known U.K. framing materials distributor, who during the course of the conversation told me that box board is ideal as a barrier paper and will remain nuetral pH more or less indefinately due to the substantial quantity of china clay contained i...

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...