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Guy wakes up one morning and looks out the window. At the top of a tree at the end of his garden there is a gorilla. He rings the local zoo and yes, they have a gorilla missing. They say they will send a man round...... Man from the zoo arrives. He is carrying a net and a shotgun and has big ferocio...

Moglet wrote:Q: What do you call a bear with no ears?

...Anything you damn well like.



What do you call a bear with jelly in one ear and blancmange in the other?

A trifle deaf.

Very good question. Depends how much space you can devote. A big display of samples does look immpresive, but you can give a customer too much choice and end up totally confusing them. As time goes by you will find which are your most useful mouldings, so it is probably a better plan to display thes...

So if I need to put a board across the back of a large frame with thin mouldings, so that I can screw through the board into the frame to stop the frame bowing, what do I use if I am not allowed to use MDF? As already mentioned, this is not a good idea. It may stregthen the frame but if the board e...

Not your average framer wrote:BTW, whatever happened to Kingfisher?

The pirates got 'em

Moglet wrote:...... I could not get online last night.

Thank Gawd for that! Thought I had gone deaf. (or should that be blind?)

Roboframer wrote:

I only arsked..

Hmmm....does look vaguely bilious.

Coat of black paint would be good if you can persuade it to stick.

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Frame Design rule 1.

If it looks right, it is right.

Rule 2.

There are no more rules.

There is a new thread on the Grumble (Two Things) that might be pertinent re. black stuff. One reply points to this site:

http://www.conservationresources.com/Ma ... _index.htm

Only had a quick glance but looks very interesting....

I don't deal in many prints nowadys, but in the days that I did the big boys were: Solomon and Whitehead Rosensteils Sally Mitchell Fine Art for huntin/shootin/fishin/doggie stuff also DeMonfort Fine Art do some good stuff (and all their reps tended to be very nice young ladies. :P ) ....Haven't got...

:) Well.... it is common practice among owners of extremely valuable paintings to commission a copy to hang on their walls and put the real one in a bank vault. Mainly to save on crippling insurance costs. :roll: Having a single print done of a poster should work out less than the cost of a 40x60 sh...

My xp is, show them the up-market stuff first, - "this one would look really classy, but it is rather expensive...". If they baulk at the cost, bring out the cheaper alternatives. 9 out of 10 times they go back to the dear one.

Just a few thoughts.... Posters by their very nature are temporary things. That probably means that they were printed on crap paper and the inks are likely to be very fugitive. Prior to the customers bringing them for framing it's very likely they had never seen the light of day for any long periods...

Is it the customers or the posters that are old?

Find out first if the posters have any value (or likely to have in future). Some posters can be worth a fortune and this would obviously effect the approach to the framing.

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Good tip on the upsidedown flat moulding. I do it all the time. Great way to make 4-5" wide frames.