The Framers Forum

circles_of_confusion wrote: Well, I wouldn't have enough time in the day to take on a full time framing service on top of my other work commitements.

If time is an issue, wouldn't you be better off to use commercially finished mouldings?

I don't finish my own, because of the extra time it takes and because it's not that easy to produce a professional looking finish!
An average sized frame can be cut and joined from commercially finished moulding in less than five minutes. Finishing your own moulding could take anything up to an hour or even more, then you still have to cut and join it!

Nigel Nobody wrote: If time is an issue, wouldn't you be better off to use commercially finished mouldings?

Well yes, but it would save me having to buy a much larger number of mouldings and more importantly, although time would be a factor if I was doing them as a framing business only, but I'm not. I do however, very much like the idea of being able to stain and produce my own. It's not really a commercial enterprise as such, for me. I just want to be able to do it and incorporate it into my photography business when time allows. Alternatively, I can buy ready made frames if it gets too busy, and I'm too slow, which is what I've been doing for the past, what seems like, 500 years anyway..

NYAF...I received the book yesterday, I have to say it is Not your average expectation of a book about wood finishing. I think I am beginning to understand your name now.
It will take me a little more than a day to digest that lot. Very comprehensive and deserving of a place in any art school library. Thanks for the heads up as they say these days, much obliged.