Moulding Matchup

[paulappleframes]

Hi guys,

Just in a pickle with this frame, any ideas who the supplier is?

Artist is Kealey Farmer

Many thanks in advance.

Paul

[Steve N]

looks like 3 mouldings 'stacked' together, can you take another couple of photos with tape measures so we can see the sizes

[Not your average framer]

That's what I thought. It's anyone guess what the individual mouldings might be!

[paulappleframes]

Yeah think wishbone did it. Thanks for your reply's

[Not your average framer]

There was a time when Frinton Moulding used to do bargain bundles of random damaged, or discontinued mouldings, they don't that anymore. I used to buy these when they were a particularly good eal and used to stack some of the less easily saleable ones together to create something more interesting. A lot of them sold as ready made frames, which was very helpful at the time. Eventually customers for this sort of frames dropped of a bit and I stopped doing them. They were good sellers for a while. Your frame reminds me of those days. I'm guessing that the era of minimalism may have been what finally finished them off.

I have not bought any of these bargain bundles for probably about ten years, or more. I don't think that I was the only framers who was doing this. During that period, I bought plenty of slip moulding, because that was the look that sold well in those days. I still use slips , but most of themm I make myself in the style of much older looking slips. They are fairly thick and have an older style chamfer, I make them from bits of left over moulding scraps and hand finish them. I can't actually remember when I last bought any "off the shelf" slips, but it was a very long time ago. In recent years, there's been quite a big retro and vintage thing and that's very much my sort of thing and it has worked well for me.

I'm guessing that television programs like "Salvage Hunters" have helped to popularise the trend for older retro and vintage styles and stuff like this has really helped me along quite a lot. I'm not a great fan of the minimalist look and never really got in to it in a big way. It was not really for me and it was not where I wanted to be going and for a while I was getting a bit out of date. Well, things came full circle and I'm still here doing what I've always been doing. I will be seventy next year and they say that you can't teach an old dog new tricks and here I am still doing much the same as usual. Perhaps it is true, that you can't teach an old dog new tricks after all.