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- Wed 08 Aug, 2018 12:29 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Need your views and opinions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 21565
Re: Need your views and opinions
I'm not sure if you realize that the sticker that Keith uses as a model was actually made by a manufacturer and given away at NO CHARGE to his retail customers to use as they desired.... No charge ... not to market hard core, but to simply stimulate thought and encourage the customers to contemplat...
- Tue 07 Aug, 2018 12:42 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Need your views and opinions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 21565
Re: Need your views and opinions
Worth noting too, the original window sticker referenced is also not generic advertising. Definitely branded...
- Wed 01 Aug, 2018 1:14 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Problems with Float Mounting using Hedgehog Method
- Replies: 6
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Re: Problems with Float Mounting using Hedgehog Method
You can also 'double hedgehog' it. Sure there must be a more technical term...
Cut another aperture smaller than the last one and do the same with that one.
Cut another aperture smaller than the last one and do the same with that one.
- Wed 01 Aug, 2018 1:12 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Need your views and opinions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 21565
Re: Need your views and opinions
I'm with NYAF and Rainbow. There are three picture framers on the same street as us. The same street. I don't want to send the message that people should go to a framer. I want to promote the idea that people should come here. I understand the rising tide aspect of it but I don't feel like it makes ...
Re: Tiles
That was my first thought but can't get anything in under the foamcore to cut it...
Tiles
I had a customer bring in two of these delft style tiles in these frames. The frames got damaged so she wants to replace them. The tiles seem glued to strips of foamcore which seems glued into the frame. Hesitant to prise it out with a screwdriver in case I break the tiles. Wondered if lighter fluid...
- Wed 25 Jul, 2018 1:25 pm
- Forum: Business Matters
- Topic: Customer work not picked up
- Replies: 14
- Views: 19136
Re: Customer work not picked up
I should add, it may be worth giving them the benefit of the doubt.
I reframed a print we were selling for a customer who needed it by the weekend. Grumped for a while that she hadn't been in for it then found out she'd be killed in a car accident.
I reframed a print we were selling for a customer who needed it by the weekend. Grumped for a while that she hadn't been in for it then found out she'd be killed in a car accident.
- Wed 25 Jul, 2018 12:32 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Who is the Artist?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7132
Re: Who is the Artist?
I'm guessing it's not
http://www.jackiegarner.co.uk/falklands.htm
http://www.jackiegarner.co.uk/falklands.htm
- Wed 25 Jul, 2018 11:21 am
- Forum: Business Matters
- Topic: Customer work not picked up
- Replies: 14
- Views: 19136
Re: Customer work not picked up
Contact your local police station and tell them it's been abandoned as no one has come to collect it. Once you've waited long enough, title will pass to you and you can sell it... (This was only meant jokingly...convincing a judge that it had been abandoned would be a bit difficult when you have the...
- Tue 24 Jul, 2018 7:50 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Buying machinery Glasgow
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2629
Re: Buying machinery Glasgow
If they don't, I'm sure Ken will know someone who's looking to sell what you're after...
- Mon 23 Jul, 2018 11:29 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: A plea to moulding distributors
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4402
Re: A plea to moulding distributors
I do generally have a lot of sympathy for framing suppliers. I get that they're doing their best and caught between suppliers and customers. but... Surely keeping your website up to date is a fairly basic part of running a business now? The only decent websites I've seen are Lion and Mainline. Every...
- Thu 12 Jul, 2018 3:52 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Starting out recommendations?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 17962
Re: Starting out recommendations?
prospero is correct :D I paid £0.01 (plus postage) for my copy two years ago when I joined the FF. In some areas it is a little dated but mostly it's well worth the read. I've just passed my copy on to another member who initially thought I was being overly generous :giggle: but truth will out :( P...
- Wed 11 Jul, 2018 12:26 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Starting out recommendations?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 17962
Re: Starting out recommendations?
Yeah, I don't think you'd get that much from it.
People are often trying to get rid of lengths of moulding which they don't want. I'd pick up a heap and use that to learn with...
People are often trying to get rid of lengths of moulding which they don't want. I'd pick up a heap and use that to learn with...
- Mon 09 Jul, 2018 2:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Cheekiest request for discount.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10250
Re: Cheekiest request for discount.
To get back to people being cheeky and asking for discounts...
It must work often enough for them to keep doing it. As much as we find it annoying, are we (at least partly) jealous that we're not cheeky enough to try? I know I kind of am!
It must work often enough for them to keep doing it. As much as we find it annoying, are we (at least partly) jealous that we're not cheeky enough to try? I know I kind of am!
- Fri 06 Jul, 2018 2:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Cheekiest request for discount.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10250
Re: Cheekiest request for discount.
Hate to break it to you...but Cairo is definitely in the real world...
- Fri 06 Jul, 2018 10:50 am
- Forum: Forum Issues
- Topic: Moving the group to a social media site?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 35774
- Thu 05 Jul, 2018 2:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Cheekiest request for discount.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10250
Re: Cheekiest request for discount.
We add an extra 20-30% for rush orders. Quite up front about it, never had anyone complain. Had a few people realise it wasn't as urgent as they thought! Never seen it as a cheeky thing. If you want something faster you pay more for it. Even after giving a quote, I'm quite happy to say "no prob...
- Sat 30 Jun, 2018 9:16 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Starting out recommendations?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 17962
Re: Starting out recommendations?
When I started framing, I was shown how to stick pictures to mounts with brown tape and use tapestry tape to stretch t-shirts etc. It was only when I started reading through these forums that I realised this wasn't the way to do things. I really do think this has been the main resource in my learnin...
- Wed 27 Jun, 2018 1:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Using a white board when dealing with customers.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3482
Re: Using a white board when dealing with customers.
I have a few dotted about the workshop walls. Normally use them when I'm trying to explain something as part of someone's training. Things like offset corners on a mount (or using the measuring guide on a morso) are much simpler to do than to explain... Never thought to use one with a customer thoug...
- Tue 26 Jun, 2018 3:37 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Beginner needing advice
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3954
Re: Beginner needing advice
Ah, sorry, yes. That makes more sense now! My point was to the original post rather than NYAF. I appreciate the poster's willingness to give it a go, but I thought it demonstrated nicely that there's a lot more to framing than putting four bits of wood together. The detailed reply that NYAF gave rea...