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Way quieter than my old ‘mouthy’ piston compressor! It’s in a side room to the workshop, if the door is open when it goes off the door gets closed more often than not so I guess that suggests it’s still pretty noisy! A great suggestion by Jerome, might look into that.

Tundra goes after the tank.

I second the shout for a hydrovane. We run an HV02 with a 75litre receiver capacity which is plenty enough for our requirements. We run a Valiani, underpinner, various air tools and more recently a paint spray booth addition. I’d say before the spray booth addition it probably was a little over spec...

Love the way this vintage French cycling poster turned out. Dead simple black blackcore mount and LJ confetti cream frame was the perfect colour match. Very pleasing to the eye.

Thanks! Correct R&H C9 on top of A195. Perfect fit. Needs some precise calculations and mount border adjustments to set out the bobbles completely if working inside out. Starting with an exterior measurement first is definitely easier!

This one was for a good friend who gives us pretty much carte blanche to do what we like. These are postcards from an alphabetic range for a Christening gift which were going to be simply floated on 5mm foamcore. I measured up and somehow cut the frame not wide enough. Not sure how… (measure twice c...

Thanks! Three-tone!! Such a versatile frame, lovely elegant shape, flat sections for easy masking and loads of rebate space. Wish it was available in more sizes!

I’ll show you mine if you show me yours….🤭 I’d want to avoid using 3mm if poss and consider acrylic. Also not sure your logistics work with contents in that rebate but a similar workable scenario here I think i’d want in the region of £700-£800 and not be too disappointed if I didn’t get it! Where y...

Love it! Got a sheet of each colour from Centrado in and still haven't found a job for them yet!

Nice job! Not sure what colour cards are doing the rounds in West Wales but Hague Blue is definitely still on the latest release! A best seller for us in a dark colour. My painted contribution for this week on a firm favourite R&H spoon moulding A219. We have also masked off the flat sections an...

A jumbo Hotpress vacuum press (HGP360) will handle that no problem. Working area up to 170cm ish so definitely possible. No idea if there is one near you tho!

Hi Jon - not a million miles away from you. Happy to help if you send us a PM or message via the website with the requirements

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Bit of a challenge this week. Beautiful triptych on ply by a lovely French artist. She loves deep skinny frames which on something 1400mm tall can pose a headache or two. We’ve used R&H A354 in oak (9mm face x 33mm deep) and given support with LJ subframe 596500000. Joining this oak moulding can...

Plastic coated wire also a tremendous price at Simons currently in comparison. £14.50 compared to £32!

Same. Nothing now… The PRS harassed me a few years back with phone calls and visits. Caught me once listening to talk radio in the workshop and said I’d need a license due to the jingles that Radio 5 play and that there was no permanent door in-between there and the shop!! I refused to pay for one a...

C2D52FC4-D235-4592-AF1F-57743DA37C0E.jpeg Being in the same town as the constabulary HQ we get our fair share of police display boxes to do but this one had a few more epaulettes than usual. The Chief no less!! As always the budget was minimal and sadly this one went out without artglass 😔 was almo...

LJ 638400000 has internal dims very close to 45x33mm. The facing edge is 15mm though. I guess you could rip it down if you have access to a table saw?

https://larsonjuhl.co.uk/mouldings/lars ... -638400000

Couldn't you glue/pin a discreet little spacer/batten to the base of your tray frame to make up the difference and screw through both from the back? Plumbers tape also makes a handy alternative when the canvas offsets aren't the right size. https://www.screwfix.com/p/ced-all-round-band-12mm-x-10m/18...

Re-stretch the canvas on standard stretcher bars would only give you 5mm sticking out. Is that still too much? Or rip some stretcher bar moulding to the right thickness?