Hello, I have a customer who has just bought a large photo back from Australia, and he saw it framed out there and wants to match it. I suspect it is beyond my equipment and skill set, unless anyone can point me in an easy direction? And if I can't do it, I'm happy to pass on the details of someone who can help him!
It appears the photo is stuck on to the back of a piece of Acrylic, and then the Acrylic is suspended within a wooden frame - the photo hopefully explains it better than I can.
Thanks for reading!
Anyone made a frame like this before?
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Re: Anyone made a frame like this before?
Bonding a photo to the reverse side of a sheet of acrylic is in the realm of sign makers who do this every day for commercial signs that are backlit. BTW, they are usually transparencies and not prints.
I think it will be next to impossible to find a sign maker with a cold lamination press who will take on the responsibility (liability) to do such to a one of print. Second, you have to find the hardware that was used to mount the acrylic in place or have them custom machined and plated.
Can the client give you any further information on where this frame was made and by whom?
I think it will be next to impossible to find a sign maker with a cold lamination press who will take on the responsibility (liability) to do such to a one of print. Second, you have to find the hardware that was used to mount the acrylic in place or have them custom machined and plated.
Can the client give you any further information on where this frame was made and by whom?
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Re: Anyone made a frame like this before?
It's a question of knowing how and having the right materials and equipment.
Here is an example of the right materials, there are other manufacturers and variations in the materials and the quantities that the materials are supplied according to requirements;
https://www.lionpic.co.uk/p/36367/Zenit ... -x-3m-roll
You will also need something along the lines of a jet mounter, or an equivalent rival product. Mine is an earlier manual hot press cold roller machine. Before you get too excited, it takes practice before you can do this with a customers artwork, but there are regularly held Hot Press training days for those who want to learn.
This is not something that I think you can just have a go with, if you are a novice. You will need to know what you are doing!
Here is an example of the right materials, there are other manufacturers and variations in the materials and the quantities that the materials are supplied according to requirements;
https://www.lionpic.co.uk/p/36367/Zenit ... -x-3m-roll
You will also need something along the lines of a jet mounter, or an equivalent rival product. Mine is an earlier manual hot press cold roller machine. Before you get too excited, it takes practice before you can do this with a customers artwork, but there are regularly held Hot Press training days for those who want to learn.
This is not something that I think you can just have a go with, if you are a novice. You will need to know what you are doing!
Mark Lacey
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Re: Anyone made a frame like this before?
Face-mounting the photo is something that a specialist would have to do, as Jerome says....
You could probably find the little mounting pedestals, or something very like, if you looked hard enough.
The big problem is if the customer wants it exactly like the picture. The moulding looks like a deep rebated one that
has the rebate filled in. Lot's of those available with matching spacers, but to find the identical moulding is a tall order.
One of those jobs that sounds simple to the customer but they have no idea of the practicalities.
You could probably find the little mounting pedestals, or something very like, if you looked hard enough.
The big problem is if the customer wants it exactly like the picture. The moulding looks like a deep rebated one that
has the rebate filled in. Lot's of those available with matching spacers, but to find the identical moulding is a tall order.
One of those jobs that sounds simple to the customer but they have no idea of the practicalities.
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Re: Anyone made a frame like this before?
I think the moulding stock is just a fine grade hard wood of square stock that is mitered and finished with no rebates. Holes (4) are then drilled into the top and bottom rails for the hardware.
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