The Framers Forum

Since your customer has asked for a relatively inexpensive (I don't like using the word 'cheap' - ever) method of displaying these, could you suggest photographing them, then reprinting on something a bit more substantial, like canvas? Those would print up fairly easily on a 60" printer, and th...

Mr Pedant here, but most A5 papers and cards will be 210 x 148.5mm, not 210 x 148 (since they'll be made by cuttting a sheet of A4 in half) so your image will be 5 pixels/dots too small in the smaller dimension.......

In a skip - bloody stuff........

I've never had so much spare cash that I'd have been willing to pay someone else to look after it for me.......

Do you mind me asking what you've upgraded to Chris? I'm hoping to upgrade my 9600 in the near future......

That's 'cos he didn't spell his own website correctly........

At the Wessex open day last week, Steve Goodall showed me a way to laminate canvas using the hotpress. Never having owned a hotpress before, I was pleasantly surprised at the results.

Anyone got a second hand HGP360 going cheap?

My GUESS would be that the temperature in your workshop might be too high, the roller pressure insufficient, or that the substrate you're using (double sided laminate) isn't neccessarily the correct laminate for attaching paper to aluminium. There's a chap on the boards called Steve Goodall who's a ...

Did you hand mount them, or use a roller mounter such as a JetMounter?

Just tried that with Skype, and got the message 'not enough Skype credit' so Skype's obviously not free......

I built a surround for the actual jigsaw out of foamboard, then placed a thin non-reflective acrylic sheet over both (to keep the bits in place) put a mountboard over that, finished with paperwhite glass. It's been hanging in my living room for a number of years now! I fixed the back with turnscrews...

Well - I have 300 sq ft here in my home office/workshop/gallery (two rooms), of which one room (4m x 3m) 30% is storage, and the worktable/morso/underpinner/desk/printers/monitors and plan chest in the the other, which measures 4m x 4m approx. If I was to move to a retail outlet I'd want a MINIMUM o...

Can I ask who supplies those plain fillets, and are they available in varying sizes? I have a need for something similar right now! Cheers Tim p.s. NVM - found something at Lion that'll do.......wish there was a facility to delete posts here - or rather that if there is, I wish I knew how to use it!...

Thanks SeeSaw - I may give that a go!

Since I'm fed up having to walk the length of the garden to retrieve moulding from the 'big' shed to the 'small' workshop, I caved in and decided to install some horizontal moulding racks in the small workshop for my most used mouldings......there's not enough ceiling height to store vertically, see...

As per Prospero's remarks, as a kid I remember having a 'toy' called Plasticraft. It did the same thing - encased stuff in resin, and came with coloured dyes and stuff. I still have a pair of cufflinks I made around 40 years ago out of old silver threepenny bits.......why can't kids have toys like t...

Can't remember which thread it was on now, but general concensus on that discussion was that your first member of staff should be a CMC

Mine certainly will be.....unless they build a robot that can take accurate customer order details!

I use riveted D rings through the backing board......

These rivets and one of these (though I never use the long bit, just the'anvil')

Sorry to bump this post - does no-one know this moulding?

Hi Daisy - I can't find H29 on the HOlroyd website - do you have a link to the profile? The Lion one is too 'Flat' at 33mm if you see what I mean.....and too wide at 90mm. It may have to do at a pinch though.