The Framers Forum

I did eventually devise a way of mounting a horseshoe onto a frame.



It was all a bit of a rush job so I didn't have much time to cogitate, but I think it came out not-too-bad and the customer was pleased. It's going into a charity auction today.

The print is by a local equestrian artist Daniel Crane and depicts Frankel. Racing fans will be familiar with the horse. The shoe is from his final race (the horse not the artist).

Brilliant

is the blue a fabric?

superb job, well done

nicely done, everything is complimentary, to my eye perfect, wonderful job .

Yeah, perfect. Nothing else to say

Love it.

Fabulous.......

Mmmm, that's nice! An inspired choice!

Nice work!!.. particularly the colour and the width of the flat. From an aesthetic point of view, I think a slightly deeper bottom section housing the horseshoe would have added a better balance to the completed piece. Nice touch though and I hope it raises a good price for the charity.

Out of interest how is the shoe mounted?

The original plan was to nail it on with proper horseshoe nails (Suitably shortened). But couldn't get any in time so it's strapped down with supersoftstrand. There is also a sticky-up bit on the shoe which fits snugly into a little cavity that a whittled.

I've always wanted a shed where I could whittle stuff into stuff, sounds like you have it all!

Actually, I didn't do any of the whittling in the shed. I did it with a drill and a Dremel+engraving tool.

How did you cut the glass?

There ain't none.

I suspect that the glass only covers the image, not the horse shoe!

BTW, the O/P says that it is a print.

From the other thread

prospero wrote:I should have mentioned that there will be no glass

Fair enough!

Frankle must be popular at the moment, iv'e just had two jobs in from different customers of Ltd edition prints of the horse.