The Framers Forum

Keith Hewitt wrote: Even in the poorest countries people still need frames,

Are you saying America is one of the poorest countries, Keith?

I spoke to the good people at Meaco, and like others on here my workshop is fairly open to the elements - I have big shutter doors that have a space top and bottom. My humidity levels will be consistent with whatever is in the natural environment and I was advised I would have to seal it off at leas...

Merlin wrote:Using Chrome
I do not see any adds at all.
I have a Do Not Track Me App running.

You don't get an advert just under the first post, and at the very bottom of each page?
I don't think the app would affect whether you see ads at all, although it would affect what ads are shown.

As said already google tries to place ads that are relevant to people, based on a whole load of different formula but most obviously previous webpages visited or searches made. This can be a good thing as you might see something you are looking for, or can be annoying as you don't want anyone else t...

Abacus wrote:I don't seem to have a quote button when viewing the fora via my ipad, is it just me?

What other forum are you viewing? Are you cheating on us with another?

Love it, what a great job. My 3 and 5 year olds would love something similar in their room.

I've not had a warped frame back yet but a few other things going wrong, sometimes my fault sometimes not. I would probably offer to do it in a different but similar moulding which firmly suggests it is nothing to do with you but the fault of the moulding. The best you can do is put it right with th...

Look good John, any idea which model and how you know which size to get?

I'm not working on the garage, not yet anyway. So I reckon I need one just to make sure the equipment , boards etc are all okay.

Following on from the Framer's post about insulation I'm looking for a dehumidifier for my garage.
Does anyone have any recommendations, or any that I should avoid?

I have a wall-mounted glass cutter that I inherited when I started framing, but I've never mastered it properly. So I've been lowering a piece of chipboard onto the floor and cutting my glass on that. I never have any problems putting the glass down on it and I can lean over and get one smooth cut e...

The problem with my underpinner is that I need to swap the head if I want to change the pins so it is more effort, and in this case I would have only got 2 x 10mm so 20mm rather than 21mm with 3 x 7mm. Probably in an ideal world I would do this but I'm quite comfortable with how things are just now ...

I did a frame before with 3 under pins and I had to take it apart for a different reason. I'd 5 groups of pins and they were all perfectly stacked. I'm using 7mm pins. I have done 4 before although that would be my lot, although of course you almost have to assume everything is okay as you can't see...

Okay, so I think I've discovered another issue. :head: When I took this frame apart I noticed that even though I was stacking 3 wedges, at no point were they ever 3 high, they were either 1 or 2 high, with some in beside each other. I then had a closer look and noticed I had somehow managed to put t...

Thanks everyone, some good advice as always. I have made bigger frames, and I've used this moulding before for smaller frames, so it seems to have been the combination of both that was the problem. I'll probably have to do it again, but I'll take more care and get an extra pair of hands to help this...

every other frame is fine, it's just this one particularly big one. I didn't have any help to join it which is where I think the issue is coming from.

I've just pinned a particularly large and heavy frame and there is a gap at every mitre. I think it was the weight and doing it myself combined that has meant they have separated slightly. Probably for next time I will do 2 corners and let the glue dry before fixing the last 2. Is there any framers'...

Yow that looks really sore.
I can't believe you went to casualty to get it sorted out before posting it on here.

On first glance your website looks great. I agree that that's not a bad ratio for web visitors to customers. At least some of the visitors will be us framers checking out your site to see if after previous posts about what it looked like, and in response to this post. And that not having a dedicated...