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WHO DARES WINS (David)

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A very enjoyable day spent at the Spring Fair on Sunday and it was great to meet up some of my Forum friends :clap: That was Roboframer, Merlin, Deepjoy, Tudor Rose, Trigger, steve Goodhall, span2iels and Danchip1, that was 8, see if you can beat that when you're up there this week. :rock:

The one thing that really impressed me was a sculptured mat by David Wilkie on a certain CMC manufacturers stand, it was a simple B&W photo of a soldier driving a jeep along a dusty road, the mat had a Union Jack, the SAS insignia and the words "Who Dares Wins" around it, if you are there this week please take a look, it was incredible.

It got me thinking that you can really be creative with a CMC if you put your mind to it.

Now I have embarrassed David, perhaps I could ask him to put a photo up on the forum please ?

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Hi Adam, sorry I missed you. Glad you liked the piece. The photo is of an SAS jeep in the North African desert circa 1942.
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Post by DEEPJOY »

That is Deepjoy David :clap:

I don't think you look anything like the Avatar Eagle :giggle: More like Steve Wright in the afternoon :giggle: or Ben Elton :giggle: :lol:

Great to meet you.
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david


i was looking at this today on the gunnar stand. I must say one of the best cut mounts i have seen, the cuts are imacculate

one thing that interests me, how did you cut the grooves in the handle, as they are not a fixed depth, seems like they are lighter at one end to the other of the cut
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Stunning!
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Post by Jared Davis CPF, GCF »

Yep - that's awesome - really nice work!

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I must say It caught my eye. It is amazing what you can do with a CMC, however I would hate to think how long that took you to create the files to cut that.

Well done.
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The grooves in the handle are standard V grooves, but rather than a stright line I put a slight curve into it. The picture on the stand is under quite strong light so I think this combined with the shadow is giving the impression of the variation, also the end of the groove is cut at an angle which is also probably helping.

I have played around with the thickness of grooves as I tend to prefer narrower ones to the standard, haven't got my head around the variations possible yet so it's something I want to get back to soon. I'm currently working on the mark 2 with some minor tweeks and enhansed detail. Also need to tidy the files up as I kept saving bits as I went along and need to make some notes before I forget what I did. Although there is nothing new in that I look at some of the stuff I've done in the past and can't work out how I did it. :head: :head:
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Great work David, and so are the examples on your website.

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I'm a newbie here, but saw it posted on the forum, so when I was at the show today, I checked it out. It's absolutely stunning. One day, after a lot of practice and reading of manuals, I may be able to get close. I have a Wizard 8000 CMC, but thus far have been producing standard film cell and music mounts for the most part. I do letter mounts (I LOVE MUM, Chelsea, OUR HOLS and so on), and I've played around a bit with bezier curves, steps and similar. We initially bought the Wizard to produce our own mounts (we have a memorabilia business) but to make it pay for itself, we need to make and sell mounts. I thought it would be easy, but having tried, given that I have no experience or formal training, I kept on hitting barriers. I also do some basic framing (I have a Morso and a Framers Corner air powered underpinner). When I look through the Lion catalogue, I find I understand about half of what's in there. It's assumed that people know what certain words mean.
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I'm up for some skill-swapping and am about 44 miles away - check this thread out. http://theframersforum.com/viewtopic.ph ... 18&p=38034

I'll have you doing washlines, deep wrapped bevels, slipover frames, melinex mounts, encapsulation - allsorts - and in no time!

I never saw that mount at the show, but awesome anyway :D
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Hi Robo, it'd be great to meet up sometime you do some good stuff, I'm sure I'd learn something, but do you have anything else?

I got a bit carried away on this one, I also did it before I got the gunnar so it was done on a Fletcher 2200.

Deep bevel wrap, same surface paper as the main mount, coloured bevel (gold), offset corners, multiple mounts, inlays, reverse bevel, hairline and some lines and wash.
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On the framing side, David, you'd learn diddly-spit!

But if you want to see how diversification works, pop down. How many framers do you know that have a dry cleaning agency?

We dare ..... but need serious help on the techie side of things.
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If you missed this piece at the NEC and would like to see it, it will be on display on the Gunnar stand at the Framers Forum Live.
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