We used to see this all the time, sometimes damage was done, others not, surprisingly.
Getting less common now though.
And I rarely see the semi-opaque coating, patiently and methodically attaching itself to glass, that the smokers played at.
Yuck.
Search found 43 matches
- Fri 17 Mar, 2017 7:43 am
- Forum: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
- Topic: Backing Board
- Replies: 48
- Views: 56985
- Wed 15 Mar, 2017 7:36 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Appalling price of strutbacks up by at least 50%
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4915
Re: Appalling price of strutbacks up by at least 50%
Yep that's a shocker.
I suppose you can only notify the original supplier, say your moving, but express disappointment....is it just the strutbacks?
I suppose you can only notify the original supplier, say your moving, but express disappointment....is it just the strutbacks?
- Wed 15 Mar, 2017 7:27 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Pro Turner underpinner question
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4552
Re: Pro Turner underpinner question
I still have a Pro Turner underpinner, orange/red colour. Never had anything else for 25 years !! Ditto! :D Bought mine from Simons, in '93. okay 24 years. It's joined so many frames i have lost count, and still copes with oak and ash, although sometimes it struggles. I'm not a heavy user anymore, ...
- Fri 10 Feb, 2017 8:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Flecks in Mount Board
- Replies: 28
- Views: 17069
Re: Flecks in Mount Board
I first started using ' Artcare' (Nielsen) in '94 and found the boards really good. Even so, very very occasionally we would find "bits", one I picked at subsequently bled!! :D That mount went awol. But having bought many many hundreds of their product, I would say try it - Rose & Holl...
- Fri 10 Feb, 2017 8:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: "I'm a picture framer"........."Oh"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6655
"I'm a picture framer"........."Oh"
When I was young and lovely (one can dream, and I'm fast approaching the age when I don't care either way) I fell in love with Alison, a doey eyed, black bob gal at college. She alas didn't reciprocate but we were chums - her being very pretty turned many heads. We met at a party a few years later a...
- Mon 23 Jan, 2017 11:52 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: mona lisa project
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6770
Re: mona lisa project
Very interesting, nice job.
May one ask the retail price of such a fine thing?
May one ask the retail price of such a fine thing?
- Sat 07 Jan, 2017 9:27 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Washline mounts
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1551
Washline mounts
Off to see a new client tomorrow, who is one of the "old guard" - collected paintings for 50 years, and would like me to reproduce a frame he's had done by someone else (now retired), as a wedding present. I know that some of his watercolours are washline mounted, IF it's one of these he w...
- Fri 06 Jan, 2017 5:48 pm
- Forum: After Hours
- Topic: Christmas TV
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4571
Re: Christmas TV
Not much agreed....Rick Stein and his weekends were good
Sheerluck Homes was a disappointment. Less cerebral, more oh I dunno, 'The Professionals'.
Mind, the P would have been alright..much like Arfur D.
Sheerluck Homes was a disappointment. Less cerebral, more oh I dunno, 'The Professionals'.
Mind, the P would have been alright..much like Arfur D.
- Thu 05 Jan, 2017 4:47 pm
- Forum: Outgassing
- Topic: Pictures in York Art Gallery
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9215
Re: Pictures in York Art Gallery
Maybe they have a conservator/restorer that likes to make sure s/he'll have something to do in years to come. I approached (gently) a Charity Trust that looks after a country house, when the previous day or two on a visit, I saw watercolours in window recesses, lovingly tickled by sunshine and almo...
- Thu 04 Feb, 2016 6:37 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Starting up...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4336
Re: Starting up...
Regarding your location, I would recommend Wessex Pictures, they have a large trade counter in Leatherhead.
Glass, board & mouldings delivered twice a week.
D & J Simons, based in Hackney are also worth looking at.
Good Luck!
Glass, board & mouldings delivered twice a week.
D & J Simons, based in Hackney are also worth looking at.
Good Luck!
- Sat 07 Nov, 2015 6:48 am
- Forum: Business Matters
- Topic: Commercial Picture Framing Orders
- Replies: 23
- Views: 24299
Re: Commercial Picture Framing Orders
I used to get largish orders now and again when we were in London, but as a small shop, whilst at first glance it's exciting (fairly - when your a young'un :) ) it stretched my staff, and then we had to wait for 60 days to be paid. Compared to what some can do on here, it would have been small beer ...
- Sat 07 Nov, 2015 6:34 am
- Forum: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
- Topic: WWI Memorial Frame
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3913
Re: WWI Memorial Frame
Well done, looks good in place.
And fills a "corner" to boot!
(or rather NOT to boot!)
And fills a "corner" to boot!
(or rather NOT to boot!)
- Tue 20 Oct, 2015 12:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Framers educating amatuer artists
- Replies: 50
- Views: 37865
Re: Framers educating amatuer artists
Interesting.....what have you learnt from amateur artists?IFGL wrote:I think the question here should be, what as framers could we learn from amateur artists, I have had several very interesting and informative lectures from amateur artists.
- Sat 17 Oct, 2015 12:48 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Using self-adhesive board with marker-pen pictures
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2045
Re: Using self-adhesive board with marker-pen pictures
Personally, I wouldn't stick them down at all.
They are what they are, poor quality paper, to keep the tourist prices as cheap as possible - unless packaged for years properly, wavy is quite a good result1
Mount them and explain that sticking down is non-reversible, thus very risky.
They are what they are, poor quality paper, to keep the tourist prices as cheap as possible - unless packaged for years properly, wavy is quite a good result1
Mount them and explain that sticking down is non-reversible, thus very risky.
- Fri 02 Oct, 2015 6:53 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: This week I am mostly .....
- Replies: 33
- Views: 24490
Re: This week I am mostly .....
Blimey, haven't seen a washline in blinking years......good old 'Thomas Ross' et al.
Should the question arise, do you supply other framers and what is the price per sq ft?
Should the question arise, do you supply other framers and what is the price per sq ft?
- Thu 28 May, 2015 7:43 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Aviva Community Fund
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4646
Re: Aviva Community Fund
10 votes submitted, and I wish you all the best!
- Fri 22 May, 2015 10:38 am
- Forum: Adverts/Sales/Wants
- Topic: Wanted: Ultimat Gold & wall-mounted glass cutter
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6483
Re: Wanted: Ultimat Gold & wall-mounted glass cutter
measuring it from where the sliding part rests to the end it's about 48".
- Fri 22 May, 2015 10:08 am
- Forum: Adverts/Sales/Wants
- Topic: Wanted: Ultimat Gold & wall-mounted glass cutter
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6483
Re: Wanted: Ultimat Gold & wall-mounted glass cutter
Hi Smithy,
I bought a large mountcutter "Ultimat Gold" a few weeks ago for around £330 - as a painter I thought it would be useful, however I probably would sell if I can get close to what I paid.
I bought a large mountcutter "Ultimat Gold" a few weeks ago for around £330 - as a painter I thought it would be useful, however I probably would sell if I can get close to what I paid.
- Wed 22 Apr, 2015 4:00 pm
- Forum: Business Matters
- Topic: PCI compliance
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9136
Re: PCI compliance
Thanks Pramsey.
A cute answerphone message, but they are closed for the day already!
(4.55pm)
ah well, do it online then...
A cute answerphone message, but they are closed for the day already!
(4.55pm)
ah well, do it online then...
- Wed 22 Apr, 2015 1:30 pm
- Forum: Business Matters
- Topic: PCI compliance
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9136
Re: PCI compliance
I have an izettle terminal (there is another thread detailing my reasons for getting this one). I don't have to be PCI compliant as I am not taking or storing any details. They enter their card into the reader, and enter pin and all information is sent to izettle using their PCI compliant encryptio...