The Framers Forum

Well what a let down, 24th come and gone, no stock came in and they don't know when its coming in now. :clap: :clap: :clap: Will be having to phone the customer again apologising and get her to come back and hopeful choose another frame to finish the order. I placed an order for 15m to be delivered ...

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Yeah Lion's low stock warning is not to helpful, it's more for them to control there stock. But there always quick to answer the phone so only takes a min to check stock levels.

Got an Arqadia catalog yesterday so I'v been hunting

cheers anyway Jonny, yeah the 20 days wait is nothing compared to 12 years.

Thanks all for your replies, first tried finding a match with different supplier with no luck and then looked at hand finishing but the moulding in question is Lion's L1748, distressed gold craqueleur on scoop moulding. I have played with crack effects but matching this moulding :sweating: would be ...

What does a framer do when his supplier has no stock after customer has chosen a frame and gone? Of course phone the customer up and say sorry my supplier has no stock for the next month and you have to come back and choose another sample and we will see if that’s in stock. Doesn’t sound to professi...

Excellent, thank you, so I think will go with a combernation of double-sided tape, PVA and mylar straping on the heaver items if I can find some. Sticking 2 boards together sounds good idea and 2mm glass would save on alot of cost. I'm making handfinished Cherry wood frames for this project so the c...

Thank you for your reply Prospero. I did wonder if heatsealing would alter the look of the pieces which I don’t want as we are using Waterwhite glass (not UV £££). I did suggest sticking it all down and sticking the pages together so they don't open but the customer but he wasn't too keen on that id...

Hi all, new member here first time writing but have been about many times reading all the great info posted, thank you all. I have a big job which I’ve never came across before, it's for a big printing specialist showing off all there printing samples from big name companies. The problem I have is m...