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- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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.
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.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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...
- 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. ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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!
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...