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by kartoffelngeist
Wed 08 Aug, 2018 12:29 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Need your views and opinions
Replies: 49
Views: 20616

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...
by kartoffelngeist
Tue 07 Aug, 2018 12:42 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Need your views and opinions
Replies: 49
Views: 20616

Re: Need your views and opinions

Worth noting too, the original window sticker referenced is also not generic advertising. Definitely branded...
by kartoffelngeist
Wed 01 Aug, 2018 1:14 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Problems with Float Mounting using Hedgehog Method
Replies: 6
Views: 2994

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.
by kartoffelngeist
Wed 01 Aug, 2018 1:12 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Need your views and opinions
Replies: 49
Views: 20616

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 ...
by kartoffelngeist
Fri 27 Jul, 2018 12:58 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Tiles
Replies: 4
Views: 2269

Re: Tiles

That was my first thought but can't get anything in under the foamcore to cut it...
by kartoffelngeist
Fri 27 Jul, 2018 10:37 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Tiles
Replies: 4
Views: 2269

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...
by kartoffelngeist
Wed 25 Jul, 2018 1:25 pm
Forum: Business Matters
Topic: Customer work not picked up
Replies: 14
Views: 15040

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.

:shock:
by kartoffelngeist
Wed 25 Jul, 2018 12:32 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Who is the Artist?
Replies: 15
Views: 6996

Re: Who is the Artist?

by kartoffelngeist
Wed 25 Jul, 2018 11:21 am
Forum: Business Matters
Topic: Customer work not picked up
Replies: 14
Views: 15040

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...
by kartoffelngeist
Tue 24 Jul, 2018 7:50 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Buying machinery Glasgow
Replies: 5
Views: 2570

Re: Buying machinery Glasgow

If they don't, I'm sure Ken will know someone who's looking to sell what you're after...
by kartoffelngeist
Mon 23 Jul, 2018 11:29 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A plea to moulding distributors
Replies: 6
Views: 4214

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...
by kartoffelngeist
Thu 12 Jul, 2018 3:52 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Starting out recommendations?
Replies: 29
Views: 14642

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...
by kartoffelngeist
Wed 11 Jul, 2018 12:26 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Starting out recommendations?
Replies: 29
Views: 14642

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...
by kartoffelngeist
Mon 09 Jul, 2018 2:09 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Cheekiest request for discount.
Replies: 25
Views: 9978

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!
by kartoffelngeist
Fri 06 Jul, 2018 2:30 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Cheekiest request for discount.
Replies: 25
Views: 9978

Re: Cheekiest request for discount.

Hate to break it to you...but Cairo is definitely in the real world... :giggle:
by kartoffelngeist
Thu 05 Jul, 2018 2:26 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Cheekiest request for discount.
Replies: 25
Views: 9978

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...
by kartoffelngeist
Sat 30 Jun, 2018 9:16 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Starting out recommendations?
Replies: 29
Views: 14642

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...
by kartoffelngeist
Wed 27 Jun, 2018 1:30 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Using a white board when dealing with customers.
Replies: 6
Views: 3288

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...
by kartoffelngeist
Tue 26 Jun, 2018 3:37 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Beginner needing advice
Replies: 11
Views: 3854

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...