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I'd go for french cleats, with the painting PVA'd (Titebond original) and (stainless steel) screwed.

If depth is an issue, https://www.lionpic.co.uk/r/25506/Z-Bar-Cleat-Strips could be your answer.

I regularly get people in asking for prints to have framed in a hurry. I talk with local framers about what they have in stock, what sizes of RMF's they carry, what they can turnaround quickly. I'll often advice the customer to visit the framer first, if they need very quick turnarounds. Then I'll p...

The effects of OBA's can be greatly reduced by blocking the UV falling onto the paper...

Canson/Arches new BFK Rives PW is supposedly the brightest non-OBA printing paper, using a suspected blue pigment in the coating. You could bond that atop of whatever is the brightest archival board.

"just bloody lazy, such as printing a 15cm square image on say a A3 size paper, if it's a limited edition, you have to create a big mount because the printer could not bothered trim the paper down to the square fromat of the image." So Steve, just how little of a border should I (a bloody ...

Interesting article over at the Aardenburg Imaging & Archives website.

https://www.aardenburg-imaging.com/adhe ... e-framing/

Mark McCormick-Goodhart is a world class expert on photographic image preservation.

I can imagine the potential for removing the router, and fitting something like a stepper motor connected to a linear actuator, fitted with say, a blade at a raunchy angle, such as 45 degrees... Or a straight blade for shipping boxes, a creasing wheel, and even a penholder for decorating window moun...

If the art work is postcards, then the texture of the paper/card may be the problem. When you apply the adhesive to the card, while still with the release liner on top, is the surface slightly mottled, like orange peel? That could be the problem. If you have a ready stock of sacrificial postcards, y...

You almost certainly can cut DiBond with this. Normal practice I think is with a fine tooth negative rake blade. Expect lots of statically attracted dust. For clean cuts, my first choice would be a Steeltrak... But other methods include score and snap - cut through the top aluminium skin with a real...

The advantage of photoshop / indesign / illustrator (as well as their less expensive cousins from https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/) is that you can drop pictures of the pictures in place. Once you're used to using them, it is way faster than shuffling cut paper, and you can keep a record of t...

This https://www.manutan.co.uk/en/key/heavy- ... gJ7kPD_BwE is what we had ours stood on.

Room to construct storage below it. Really rather solid.

Another variable is the organic drive control unit. On ourJavelin BigBench, I had to condition myself to walk with the cutter head, or atleast swivel from the hips as I pushed through longer sections of more rigid materials. I discovered that I'd apply slight rotation with my fore arm, as I pushed t...

You could go down the track saw route - a fine tooth blade with a negative rake along the lines of these https://www.swedex-shop.co.uk/index.php?route=product/category&path=20_26, then clean up with a hand plane and or sanding block. There is a brand of blade whose name escapes me, that people r...

Cut through- We have recently developed a way of cutting ACP using a TECH D 012 blade on our range of Evolution3 cutters used in the sign industry. We have found that if both the board and the blade are clamped firmly with only just enough blade exposed to get through the board, with 5-6 cuts you c...

We're not allowing anyone in, but we're still working (currently only two of us in production at opposite ends of a 4000sq ft floor). Ours is a diversified business, all photographic related. Film processing, scanning, printing, exhibition production, frame installation, as well as online training. ...

Command/Control +/- to change font size on pretty much any browser.

Command/Control Alt Shift V paste in place (doesn't inherit the formatting of the source text/document)

It hadn't occured to me that you could embiggen type here - learned a new thing!

Thank you, that looks very interesting - I'll be in contact in the new year.

Thank you - I'll take you up on this in the new year.
Great to have you on the forum.

Hello Tom,

I'm the son of an engineer. They don't ask stupid questions, just good ones.

I'll leave it to the grownups to answer the hard wood questions (whilst I covet their hardware).

Have fun here.

Richard

I've quite a few like that, at least one lives in my back pocket most of the time at work (and on many occassions, I've discovered one or two when pulling out a wallet, or these days a mask). the OLF/180BLK has the nicest snapping mechanism that I've used to date. I have the 9mm ones, and I got a bo...

Related to a couple of recent conversations here, I get through rather a lot of general stanley blades, trimming mounted photographs. Most of the blades have a light oil base, that when changing blades on the cutter, transfers to fingers. To get round this, whenever I open a pack of blades, I'll rou...