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by Not your average framer
Wed 28 Sep, 2022 8:24 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Ivory miniatures advice please
Replies: 9
Views: 1875

Re: Ivory miniatures advice please

Ivory is an organic material and the usual thinking of trained conservators in when gluing anything which is organic, to only consider using totally organic based adhesives. Whatever else you may consider, do not use super glue because super glue eats into ivory! These look quite thin and potential ...
by Not your average framer
Wed 28 Sep, 2022 5:46 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: mending Fletcher points driver
Replies: 4
Views: 3308

Re: mending Fletcher points driver

It is not usually necessary to dismantle the whole framing gun. If the gun is misfiring, undo the two screws at the front of the gun and clean out and dust a debries. Reassemble this and try it again. If it is still misfiring you need to fit a new hammer blade. Do do this you still do not need to di...
by Not your average framer
Tue 27 Sep, 2022 11:38 am
Forum: Business Matters
Topic: Duplicating a three year old job.
Replies: 7
Views: 3955

Re: Duplicating a three year old job.

This is what the value of the pound has been doing this year.

https://www.exchangerates.org.uk/GBP-US ... story.html

If you normally have this moulding in stock, it might cost more when you come to reorder it.
by Not your average framer
Tue 27 Sep, 2022 11:34 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Practicaliies of narrow black mouldings.
Replies: 3
Views: 1659

Re: Practicaliies of narrow black mouldings.

Thanks Peter.
by Not your average framer
Tue 27 Sep, 2022 11:22 am
Forum: Business Matters
Topic: Duplicating a three year old job.
Replies: 7
Views: 3955

Re: Duplicating a three year old job.

Is that all? That's not a lot, when you consider that the headline rate of inflation has usually increased prices more than that!
by Not your average framer
Tue 27 Sep, 2022 11:17 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Practicaliies of narrow black mouldings.
Replies: 3
Views: 1659

Re: Practicaliies of narrow black mouldings.

Thank you Keith, I appeciate all the trouble you went too, to get those comments. I have over the years encountered various different narrow black mouldings and usually the cheaper, or often the most narrow involve a lot more effort to make the finished frame properly presentable. A lot of the narro...
by Not your average framer
Sun 25 Sep, 2022 6:02 pm
Forum: After Hours
Topic: Workshop snacks and refreshmemets.
Replies: 12
Views: 6864

Re: Workshop snacks and refreshmemets.

I am considering buying an additional microwave oven and an additional coffee pod machine for down in the shop. I probably with go for some cook in the microwave bags of Uncle Ben's rice, which I already like in certain flavours. Tomato and basil, and spicy mexican are already amoung my favourites. ...
by Not your average framer
Sat 24 Sep, 2022 10:53 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Cheapest option to mount 360gms inkjet canvas to mdf/acm
Replies: 6
Views: 1692

Re: Cheapest option to mount 360gms inkjet canvas to mdf/acm

4mm marine ply is far less prone to delaminating and produces very clean cut edges, because each layer of ply is bonded with a very strong waterproof glue. A company which I used to work for got standard sized pieces of marine ply die stamped to the sizes requires for assembling transist equipment c...
by Not your average framer
Thu 22 Sep, 2022 8:36 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Cheapest option to mount 360gms inkjet canvas to mdf/acm
Replies: 6
Views: 1692

Re: Cheapest option to mount 360gms inkjet canvas to mdf/acm

The plywood suggestion makes a lot of sense and it is probably worth checking out suppliers who supply plywood for boat building. It's quite a long time since I was involved in designing things produced from thin plywood, hopefully my information still holds true. At the time, there was a readily av...
by Not your average framer
Thu 22 Sep, 2022 6:54 pm
Forum: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Topic: Critiquing again
Replies: 15
Views: 9834

Re: Critiquing again

The sources of my inspiration varies a lot. In recent times, I have needed to move with the times quite a lot. I often need to offer a more contempoary look than I used to do, but very often it is more contempoary with a bit of an added twist. I used to get a lot of my inspiration from travelling th...
by Not your average framer
Thu 22 Sep, 2022 10:18 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Cassese empty wedge cartridges
Replies: 3
Views: 2202

Re: Cassese empty wedge cartridges

Likewise! After a while the little piece of plastic which slides along inside get brittle and the little springy bits break off and you have to buy some new cassesse cartridges. The Alfamacchine universal wedges pull the joins together much better than the cassesse wedges. Also the longer cassesse w...
by Not your average framer
Mon 19 Sep, 2022 4:21 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Advice Appreicated
Replies: 33
Views: 21758

Re: Advice Appreicated

Sorry 50 prints a mount was a typing error. ! meant to type 50 prints a month!
by Not your average framer
Sun 18 Sep, 2022 11:21 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: back edge shredding
Replies: 7
Views: 2993

Re: back edge shredding

I doubt if the problem is going to be the blades.
by Not your average framer
Sun 18 Sep, 2022 9:13 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: back edge shredding
Replies: 7
Views: 2993

Re: back edge shredding

Unfortunately, this happens from time to time with obeche. The machined moulding looks o.k., so it's not a problem which you will know about until you cut into it. I may not be a problem which each length which you buy and also it may not be a problem along the whole length of each length of mouldin...
by Not your average framer
Sun 18 Sep, 2022 9:04 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Advice Appreicated
Replies: 33
Views: 21758

Re: Advice Appreicated

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...
by Not your average framer
Sat 17 Sep, 2022 9:37 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Chop service
Replies: 7
Views: 2129

Re: Chop service

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 ...
by Not your average framer
Sat 17 Sep, 2022 9:23 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Morso
Replies: 5
Views: 1574

Re: Morso

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 ...
by Not your average framer
Thu 15 Sep, 2022 11:18 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Underpinning - How?
Replies: 16
Views: 5089

Re: Underpinning - How?

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...
by Not your average framer
Thu 15 Sep, 2022 8:52 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Ready Mades
Replies: 7
Views: 2745

Re: Ready Mades

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...
by Not your average framer
Wed 14 Sep, 2022 10:52 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Ready Mades
Replies: 7
Views: 2745

Re: Ready Mades

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...