The Framers Forum

I have been asked to help sell up a recently passed framers workshop on behalf of his wife. I went round and took some photos and most of his machinery is pretty old albeit still I. Good working order. This photo is his mitring guillotine and I’ve never seen anything like it,not could I find any ide...

56 views and no responses yet so here’s a few questions to consider. Is the paper proper flat at the outset? Is the bowed end the last end you work on and therefore you may be creating the bowed effect as you work round the piece? Are you using enough bridge hinges or are there too large gaps betwee...

I have three sets of blades and I only have confidence in one of them. I think the other two have been badly sharpened and I find it a very time consuming game trying to align them on the Morso. There is a slight gap with the badly sharpened blades that can be compensated for by tweaking the left fe...

Thanks everyone. I’ll try again.

I signed in to the forum, raised a new post, bit of a lengthy help me issue. When I went to submit the post I received a ‘you need to sign in to post’ message, signed in again and my post has disappeared.

Hi. I found that Hiscox provides the best cover for me and will cover goods in trust unlike many others.

I take it you will have considered extending the mount margins to cover the tear? Sorry for stating the obvious

I’m not sure if the spacer is effectively built in as you suggest. Surely the sides will be bare wood at best and perhaps showing the black overspray from the finish at worst. I would think you will need a spacer, made perhaps from the same material as your mount boards? You could attach the mountbo...

I recently framed a couple of heart shaped ceramic tiles that were made especially with the footprint and hand print of newly born babies pressed into the tile whilst in its wet clay form then dried and glazed. A piece of ribbon had been stuck onto the back using silicone as a hanging strap and this...

Mainline are very good and I have ordered mouldings from them. Their polcore range is good and in some cases unique in certain embossed type mouldings. They are my go to for Morso blade sharpening and my blades always come back in tip top form.

I’ve been in business for several years and my main supplier is Lion. They have a large selection of mouldings and are great at sending samples of anything you ask for to show to customers. Other suppliers do this as well but not as energetically as Lion in my experience. Most of my customers choose...

I fill mine up again with alfamachine v nails and reuse them over and over. I haven’t bought a new cartridge for over a year.

I regularly use Lion’s Chop Service mainly for the more upmarket mouldings. However I always compare the stick length price for what I need to the chop price. It is frequently the case that their chop service is cheaper than buying the lengths I may need. If it works out cheaper for me to buy the le...

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Great tips. I’m not sure if this is a hack as such but I discovered that the measure stop on my Morso was separating from the fence by about a millimetre when I pushed the moulding into it. I thought this could be a problem if sometimes I pushed the moulding tight causing it to separate and other ti...

Thanks very much for response. Much appreciated.

Very nice and thanks for sharing. I have a question or two if you don’t mind. You say you added an acrylic wash to oak. Was that just on the spacer with a reddish colour and did you mix water into the paint? Or did you also add the colour to the actual moulding, if so it looks a bit darker like a ve...

I also agree. The framers job is to present the art in the best possible way and to enhance it, not to compete with it. The evidence of a good job is when, as you suggest, the viewer sees the artwork and admires it for what it is. The frame in some ways is always secondary. Having said that this art...

Question. Do you really need to use the hanger which is attached to the strut back? If not it seems like you have enough room to fit a double backing board of sorts. You could add a bit of a spacer using left over materials such as foam board or MDF off cuts and then fit another backing board using ...