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i bought a load of handywrap a while back but never worked out how to use it properly. So now i use bubble wrap and the handywrap just sits there on the shelf mocking me.

I would like to show the handywrap who's boss - can anyone help me with my blind spot on this one. What's the knack for using this stuff?

Thanks!
Calico

Make sure it's on a handle/dispenser and use your thumb as a brake to cause the film to stretch.

I wouldn't say handy wrap was a replacement for bubble wrap, I only use handy wrap to hold the bubble wrap in place.

As said before you really want the handle that the handy wrap roll fits onto, it easy then

As ricky said, thumb as a brake, and stretch it

Handywrap in combo with Simon's cardboard corners (mult-size) are a good way of wrapping picture frames for collection. Cover the frame and it stops finger marks, while leaving the image in view if you wrap edges only. Cheap and effective.

The wrap sticks to itself best so you need to get round once first, then you are cooking - 2 or 3 times round is usually enough.

On some cheap brands of handywrap the first few inches of the rolls don't always cling as well as the rest of the roll. After that the rest is fine!

Handy wrap is my guilty pleasure!!! Love using the stuff and for most of my collections it suffices without using bubblewrap.

Slightly concerned the other day when one of my customers paid rather too much interest and then asked where she could purchase one from......

I Handywrap.

Strangely enough, I rarely use it for wrapping. Great for bundling up moulding. Or holding things together when gluing and such.

I want to handywrap but in spite of the advice to thumb-break, when I try to wrap a frame, the infernal stuff continues to defy me! Just cannot get it bound nicely and tightly around the corners etc.

Will have to get a demo in person

Here is one I prepared earlier...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3llgjx8T7SM

Awesome!

A quite masterful demonstration there!!!

I use it as my main wrapping material and only occasionally use bubble. I find it much easy to have the picture flat on a bench with the side being wrapped over-hanging the bench, for most frames I don't find it necessary to do excess at the corners, just 3 wraps round, then rotate the frame and do the next side.

This can be done in seconds (alot quicker than bubblewrap), and customers who watch the wrapping are almost always vaguely impressed with the procedure!

It is also good if transporting a number of pictures, they stick together and don't slide or move around.

Great demo. I have no idea why, but it kinda has that Kenny Everett, Marcel Marceau feel about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv_EWG5bb0Q


I'm sure you unroll yours in the opposite direction to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv_EWG5bb0Q

Not sure why that link decided not to work, so take two.

Guys, guys! I did it! I used your advice and handywrapped a nice little package. Come on!!!

Kenny Everett, Marcel Marceau feel about it?....I'll take that as a compliment, unless you mean his character Reg Prescott...pure genius.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcb-4-NlT28

So do you use Handywrap to wrap the picture after you have shown it to the customer or do you wrap it first, when you have finished assembling it and leave it on when the customer comes to collect.

We wrap ours as soon as we have finished putting the frame together. It protects the frame while it is still in the shop waiting to be collected and helps prevent knocks. Never had any complaints from any of our customers.

Cotton Gloves! Ended up with friction burns when wrapping 22 1000x1500 dibond mounted prints, before I realised that gloves would save the pain. Great for holding blue foam edges, then as said, the prints stick together. Then more wrap to hold the bubble in place. No nasty tape to grip onto the surface of prints (a real killer with cotton rag and baryta papers).