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Not my tatste but what the client want, client gets.
Double layered but consists of three colour mounts.
Made using Gunnar .

Been waiting on a job like this as only recently done some additional training with Sarah Osborne of GUnnar
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nicely done.
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Like the design and concept, looks really good, but I do have one little criticism, it poked me in the eye, the top left corner, the angle of the mount opening, it shows a different amount of under mount as the top and sides, I would fix that and re-cut it. But over all I like it :clap: and I just might nick the idea :giggle: :rock:
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i quite like it

the only thing i would say if the mount borders dont seem wide enought with the width of the frame, i would be tempted to have more mount, it almost looks as if it been crammed in if you know what i mean
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Steve N: You are correct, and it's the one thing that bugged me. At the time the gunnar was running through a usb - serial port convertor as the graphics card wasn't accepting the serial port card. The result was that the gunnar would randomly miss first cuts. Be it aperture or external. This particular mount was cut 5 times just to get the top white layer. The apertures were created using the draw mode line tool & i miss calculated that top corner and only realised once the top layer was complete. Most annoying. Customer didnt have a problem with it though.

Stcstc: Hey there. I understand where your coming from on that one. I believe this shirt was a XXL and your looking at the full width of sheet of mount board 816mm. I was restricted by the board chosen.
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benjiman grapes wrote ;
"Stcstc: Hey there. I understand where your coming from on that one. I believe this shirt was a XXL and your looking at the full width of sheet of mount board 816mm. I was restricted by the board chosen."

Which is often the case, and the colours chosen are not available in jumbo :head:


If the customer is ok with that corner, all to the good, just me being a framer, must get out of the habit, off to the pub now for lunch, will try and not look at the framed work on the walls :giggle:
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A nice piece of work, and I too saw the top left hand issue as well.

You say that you cut the top mount 5 times which begs the question: Do you make any money out of this type of work.

Setting up the cutting of the 19 and gazza would take a while and 5 mountboards are at least twenty quid. Not to mention all the rest of the work.

They look nice but are they "loss leaders"?
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These could very well be a loss. But the need to cut so many times was down to us not having the Gunnar set up correctly. As the boss wasn't being prompt with the IT support to get it up and running properly I think he bit the bullet on some of these.

Saying that we've taken orders off the back of these.

The customer has brought in 13 shirts to be done in this manner so I hope the boss is charging correctly. I don't having anything to do with the sale side of things I just over see all mount work & customer contact from that side of things. I work for fairly large framers, to give you an idea I order on about 100 sheets of standard sized mount board a week.
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benjiman grapes wrote

"I work for fairly large framers, to give you an idea I order on about 100 sheets of standard sized mount board a week."

You could be just wasteful :giggle: as you had to cut the top mount 5 times, I'm a one-man-band, and my normal weekly order for mountboard is not far off that, the other weeks it far exceeds that :clap: :clap: and I still like your design, which I may adapt for my work . :rock:
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:dance: You're a one man band - nobody knows or understands .....

........why you have to repeat stuff others have said :dance:
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:clap: :clap: :lol:
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Steve N my colleague just saw your post regarding being wasteful haha
He made me laugh, he noted...

you're a one man band shifting 100 sheets.
We're 12 man band shifting 100 sheets.

Wasteful we can not be! I need to pay me rent! haha

It scares me what our overheads must be!
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Or

I could be really wasteful as I'm using as much as 12 people :giggle: :giggle:
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where's the LIKE button! haha :giggle:
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We're a three man band (one short of a Fab Four), and probably shift about 25 sheets (I've never counted, but that seems about right).
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