The Framers Forum

Not morso or underpinner. Possibly some of the other stuff.

Let me know if you don't sell it as a job lot and I might be interested in some of the items.
Cheers

Thanks featurepiece for the foamboard idea and prospero for the detailed explanation.I tried the mountboard slightly bigger than the artwork and squishing the mdf in. It has worked a treat (for now) so I'll hang onto it for a few days just to check.
Thanks again everyone.

Gap between window mount and artwork as the paper is wavy. I can post a picture later.

I have a frame back that I did a few months ago. The paper which I remember was particularly heavy has cockled. There are a few visible gaps between the frame and window mount which is why it is an issue. Artwork is approx 600 x 600mm. It is hung in a front room on a sun wall so possibly a factor in...

You've lost 12 of them then
Very impressive, I take it they will be going back on the wall of the barber shop.

People actually do that?
Does it not worry you if you are framing it as I would probably trust something framed by a framer I know than a print / artwork on its own.
If I bought something that turned out to be like this I would be extremely annoyed.

The two places I order most from my account number is identical bar one letter and one number, so I often give the wrong one, but they will say 'is that sexy framers ltd' and i say 'em no, try this account number'. Maybe because they are so similar I think about it more.

Hi biggiofan, most of the framers / advertisers etc. on here are from UK, so might be worth asking on thegrumble.com which is more for US based framers.

I don't, but I like the way you've built a bench to sit the morso in. That's a great idea. My morso sits in front of a pool table, so not sure I could do the same.

Word of mouth is always the best way. I think a website is important and can be easy enough to do although if you are asking chances are it might not be. What about doing a facebook page? You can add the business to the free listings online, e.g. yell.com, hotfrog, qype, freeindex etc. Might be wort...

I have tapestry tape and think it is fairly strong, especially when I stick my finger by mistake. I think part of the issue is that trying to get good pressure is difficult because there is a bit of give because the pegs are just pushed onto the points. I'm going to see if I can get some kind of fis...

Here are the mosaic pegs. The whole thing is approx 600mm and the backing is made up of around 25 small plastic squares. I have floated the mosaic using a sticky board and this was done as the customer wanted it done to match a much smaller one. In hindsight I would have probably framed it normally ...

Roboframer wrote:How about Staples?

I tried to sew it but couldn't get the needle through.

I've got a mosaic that has slipped off the sticky board. It is the small plastic coloured tabs that are pushed onto little plastic spikes which is on a plastic square and it is quite big so there are quite a number of these squares. These have all been taped together by the customer and it's these p...

that's a great story, and a good bit of publicity as you say.
I might try my local rag see if they want to do something similar!

I don't use a lot of plastic mouldings, only when I'm matching something else, and I was getting this issue too.
Like imagelab I was glueing them using plastic glue and holding them together for around 10 seconds before pinning. This seems to be enough to rectify the problem.

Cheers - I still prefer the other layout, think it looks neater, but this one works well especially with the bigger tails on the medal. It's a single mount, normal depth bevel, just with shadow on the bottom aperture. 10mm foamboard spacer between the undermount and the window mount, and medal is pi...

Here's my full conservation spec mbe + cert The tails on this one are far bigger than yours so although we'd decided to copy your one, it didn't fit! So we went for this layout.
Comments welcome

I'm more interested in what is Easy Fun Quick?
A description of Robo, maybe?