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Cosy
Posted: Thu 10 Sep, 2015 8:58 pm
by Roboframer
A knitted tea cosy that is, can't say I've ever framed one of those before. Customer was given it as a gift but does not own a teapot, which I think is very sad!
Mounting board is almost yellow, not white like it looks.
Black Artcare F Board spacers, Clarity glass and the frame is sitting inside a 30mm flat black moulding mitred on its side.
Re: Cosy
Posted: Thu 10 Sep, 2015 9:01 pm
by Graysalchemy
Is that an arqadia moulding? I like it .
Re: Cosy
Posted: Thu 10 Sep, 2015 9:08 pm
by Roboframer
Re: Cosy
Posted: Thu 10 Sep, 2015 9:12 pm
by IFGL
Very nice, no more to add.
Re: Cosy
Posted: Thu 10 Sep, 2015 9:12 pm
by Graysalchemy
Thought it was used it quite a bit recently for pubs
Re: Cosy
Posted: Thu 10 Sep, 2015 9:59 pm
by prospero
It looks a bit like an elephant.
Re: Cosy
Posted: Thu 10 Sep, 2015 10:29 pm
by Roboframer
You only guessed that from the filename.
Re: Cosy
Posted: Fri 11 Sep, 2015 8:02 am
by pramsay13
Looks great John, I've used a white version of that moulding, it's lovely to cut.
Can you talk me through the setup with spacers and black moulding on its side, I don't quite get it?
Thanks
Re: Cosy
Posted: Fri 11 Sep, 2015 12:57 pm
by Roboframer
Here's a flat black moulding mitred normally
- mitre side 5.jpg (107.01 KiB) Viewed 14378 times
Here it is mitred on its side .......
- mitre side 4.jpg (63.97 KiB) Viewed 14378 times
to make a box
- mitre side 3.jpg (98.15 KiB) Viewed 14378 times
You can either put your frame in it like this (and Like I have in the first post).
- mitre side 2.jpg (76.21 KiB) Viewed 14378 times
Or you can put the box in your frame rebate and it will give you another rebate for your backings. But with this method you'll need a mount or something to conceal the box and I don't like the look of mounts on most 3-d things; I also don't like the look of a box poking out of the back of the frame (The "Cuckoo clock" effect!)
- mitre side.jpg (74.11 KiB) Viewed 14378 times
Foam board spacers are just like wooden spacers you can buy but there is no need to join them, just glue them to the rebate.
Re: Cosy
Posted: Fri 11 Sep, 2015 1:13 pm
by 22rabbits
excuse my ignorance but could a wooden slip from a box frame not do the same jod for the cosy?
Re: Cosy
Posted: Fri 11 Sep, 2015 1:26 pm
by Roboframer
If it's to go inside the frame, yes and so could a pine batten from B&Q, but the advantage of using a flat moulding is that it gives a rebate for either the capping frame to sit in or for backing boards.
You can also use interesting combinations
Re: Cosy
Posted: Tue 15 Sep, 2015 9:47 pm
by Not your average framer
Simons have recently added a moulding to their range for the very use that Roboframer is discussing. It's finished all round so that you can cut and use it any way round that you like. Off the top of my head, I think it is called their Display range. I have not tried it, so I don't know much about yet.
BTW, nice job as usual.
