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Fix a couple of wooden battens securely in a L shape onto your workbench, or onto a piece of plywood or MDF. You can then use this to join the stretcher bars at 90 degrees. As each corner is joined, turn the stretcher bars round, and add the next bar until you have them nice and square. Use a rubber...

Every time I make a mistake, I realise that education is expensive. . . .

Thanks for all the kind comments on this thread. It is quite a tricky thing to come up with a useful seminar for such a diverse audience (yes I know they're all framers, but from pre-start up to very successful and well established). I have been asked to run a similar seminar at the Framers Forum me...

Hi Keith

Love your strapline at the bottom!!

What's the url for the French forum?

Oh Dear - what a mess I am particularly concerned about the canvas glued onto the board . . . . . In view of the time-frame, what about taking them to a real framer, and seeing what can be salvaged. I'm sure there will be someone on the forum who is fairly close to you, who may take pity on you, and...

Are you coming to the Lion do? If so this is one of the things I am covering in my seminar.

So I'm not going to steal my own thunder by spilling all now!

I think it is true that a larger than average (for all business sectors) number of entrants to the framing business do not "treat it as a proper business" from the off. There are generally two schools of thought when setting up a business. 1. Spend as little money as possible, put huge amo...

You will have the opportunity to have about 4 hours worth of quality training, see the full range of equipment and moulding that Lion offer, and to network with others from the industry. This is a fantastic opportunity and I think you will benefit far more than you imagine. Yes, I know it will cost ...

Sounds like a lovely combination- good luck!

Like most business set ups, you will have to shell out some cash to get started. The problem is if you don't invest in at least the basic professional kit, then you won't be able to deliver very efficiently when you do get some business in. You mentioned in an earlier post that you would be wanting ...

Hi Adam
Yes I only wear them in the privacy of my own workshop! But they do help a great deal with posture, which in turn helps reduce back pain.

There are various videos on the mbt.com site which explain it all

Maybe Im taller than you, but it keeps my back straighter when using the Morso if I am not hunched over it

I think the difficult bit to get one,s head around, is that if I purchase a CD (so the artist has been paid) and play that CD over and over again at home, that is fine, I don't have to pay PRS. If I use the CD as the backing track for dancers, and sell tickets for people to see the dancers, then I s...

Wasn't it something like "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others"

Long time since I read Animal Farm

There are, of course other options that are part way in between. Some Framers have been successful with a regular one day a week market stall. Or to work with a suitable retailer - perhaps a gift shop, or interior design shop, to provide the samples, pricing system and collect and deliver. My first ...

I work with local professional artists. Mainly originals, but numbered signed prints too. Artwork on sale or return, framed at my expense..

Have you been showing off again Prospero?

Mark, according to the PPL website you can legally listen to Radio 4 through a personal headset. Turn it up and it will drown out the EUROPAP.

What sort of music does rfm radio play? is it ok, or does it make you want to slit your wrists like lift muzak?

Thought that was just me!