The Framers Forum

I see that you are guessing at selling perhaps about 50 prints a mount. You say it's a guess, well it's nearly always a guess anyway, but whatever the amount is going to be, it is usually for there to be good and bad periods throughout the year and most of us at least try to allow for this. Some deg...

I've never used a chop service, but plenty of shops use it routinely. It can make good financial sense for some framers. Not every framing business has room for a fully equiped workshop. It can be a different business model, with a difeerent priciing policy. I don't know anything about pricing your ...

Assuming it is too nackered to repair, even a knackered Morso might be worthwhile breaking and selling bits for spares. I won't sell the whole machine for spare, but since new Morso spares won't be cheap, anything whch you are able to sell should fetch a good price, What ever is left afterwards can ...

It's interesting that narrow oak frames were mentioned. I use a 13mm x 13mm square oak moulding, it tends to open a little at the corners and I need to fill the gaps will PVA glue and sand away and swelling with my bench top belt sander. This causes some of the saw bust to get in to the glue and hel...

Hi Richard, As someone who did not already know anything about what you have just shared, concerned what fits into different formats of frame shapes and sizes, what you have just shared is priceless information to me. I find that I have quite good success selling square format ready made frames, wit...

Hi Dave, Yes, I make ready mades, but not too many. I sell a few, but not massive quantities, it's a bit of a limited market. I am mostly making ready mades to use up my waste materials. I don't find that there is much future in making bog standard ready mades, which look like cheap ready mades whic...

Mine is well nacked and has two of the original Morso clamps on it one at each end. The scale on my Morso under reads by by about ! millimeter, for some unknown reason.

Hi Tom,

Have you checked that the receiver block, which dispenses the wedges is level with the sliding top plate? There is not any positive stop which ensures this is automatically locked in position at the correct level. You can check this is level with the sliping top plate with a straight edse.

I've got an idea from somewhere that is might be made by BASF. I think that the name of BEVA 371 indicates that it is an Ethanol Vinyl Adhesive, hence part of the name being EVA. You can probably buy it from either Conservation Reasources, or Preservation Equipment Ltd.

Yacht varnish is a usually a clear oil based varnish and it dries quite slowly, which usually means that any texture created during the varnish drying will allow the texture to self level as it dries and any texture will simply self level as it dries. Creatng texture by adding some solid matter to t...

Thanks Peter,

Yes, I guess that I'll have to go for a moulding with more sidewall thinkness instead,

Thanks,
Mark.

Hi Peter, I also have amongst my framing guns a multimaster manual gun, but I was hoping to use my pneumatic tab gun. The moulding which I was hoping to use is only likely to be about 5mm thick where the tabs are likely to be fired in. There may be a requirement to have flexi-tabs on this frame, unl...

I'm looking at getting a thin deep moulding for making a box frame and the plan is to use a very skinny moulding, so how skinny is too skinny to fire framing points into the moulding, without the framing points bursting through the moulding? It's likely to be an obeche moulding!

I also keep a good stock of a more shapely obeche moulding which besides using as a normal moulding gets sliced up into nicely shaped slips. The slips are not all the same, because the shaped sections of the original mouldings vary. You can buy slips which look quite the same from normal suppliers, ...

I keep a good stock of an obeche 12mm deep and 34mm wide flat mouldings. This gives me a lot of flexibility when slicing the moulding up on my band saw, so that I can make whateveer size spacer I need in almost always less than two minutes from start to finish. This moulding is my go to obeche mould...

I've never bothered with tool balancers, or curly airline hoses. I bought a long rubberised airline hose from Machine mart, with superior hose couplings pre- fitted and it's never been a problem for me. I use lots of air powered tools, so I am often changing from one tool to another. I like a quick ...

Hi Jeremy,

No, I think that you got the red spacer just right! That was an inspired choice.

Hi Jeremy, I love it. I am a very big fan of oak mouldings and what you can do with them! Such a nice Job! I think that you may have really opened my eyes to some new possibilities. If that deep skinny oak molding is the one I think it is, I think that it has great possibilities! :clap: :clap: :clap:

Hi Dermot,

I like the top frame, it's very much my sort of thing. I make stacked moulding frames a lot like that myself, but one of the mouldings I use is obeche and the other pine, so I also add a wash as part of the finish to hide the fact the the two wood types don't completely match!

I really like the mounts as they are, it's a graduation from a darker brown on the frame, to a medium muted brown mount to a lighter muted brown on the inner mount. I think that it naturally draws the eye inwards to the artwork. It quite a classic look, I would say!