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Hi all,

Any ideas who supplies this frame?

70mm Bright Orange swept profile. Please see attached images..

Much appreciated

Looks hand finished, maybe prepared for gilding ???

I agree it looks hand finished, if you zoom in you can see some over spray on the cut end of the moulding. I've got a collection of old moulding catalogues from shops which closed down years ago, but there's not anything close to that shape. I'm guessing that it was a special which was machined to order.

Also note that the miter seam appears to be "filled in" with that "orange" coating.

The moulding is from frinton formerly compo moulding and will be on their website
I would guess that a simple satin car spray would do it but do three light coats to stop any runs
Leave quite a few hours between coats.
Code is either F1 or F2 depending on the width you want

The profile is used by Frinton Frames.

They typically produce bespoke frames to any size but if you talk to them nicely they may let you have some
lengths ready-gessoed. They also do joined frames gesso only.

https://frintonframes.co.uk/frame-types/sp/

Frinton gallery bought over compo mouldings a while back and still sell pre gessoed moulding to the trade
The codes in my previous post are from their website

Do you know, Tim, what sort of gesso Compo mouldings use on their profiles?
In other words, can they be water-gilded?

I was shown a sample, some time ago, and the gesso wasn't water permeable. Maybe some sort of acrylic gesso.

I have frinton galleries set of catalogues and price lists from 2012. There is a picture and also a profile of what is obviously the exact moulding in it, the moulding number is 3" SP, even the size of the moulding profile in the catalogue, when measured is correct. I hope this helps.

Hi Dermot
The gesso is a synthetic mix that most manufacturers use
It's not great to gold on with water gilding but is fine for paints etc

I'm on the verge of offering a gesso service amongst other things
Watch this space!

We shall watch this space with interest.

I used it a lot back in the day.

The stuff I used to get seemed like 'proper' gesso to me. You can tell by the smell when you sand it. I never did leafing on it but
used gold powders bound in varnish over an acrylic paint base. Acrylic gesso is totally different.

If you're going to use gold/bronze powders, then this is the way to do it.
Very skilful and convincing.