aluminium moulding

[CalicoFraming]

Hi all, I have to do my first aluminium frame and wanted to check I understand it right. The customer doesn't want a face mount, so it's just make a loose sandwich of backing board, poster, glass and slot into the alu moulding with spring clips, right?

Also... the frame is 100cm x 40cm - 2mm float is ok at this size in an aluminium frame, isn't it?

thanks!

[theframer]

Yes to all
Dave

[CalicoFraming]

thanks!

I have another question about this - the customer says it's a digital print on 'semi-gloss paper' - I'm wondering if this is going to be a problem next to glass, or whether I should use a spacer. Any thoughts?

[Roboframer]

Be careful when sliding everything in as it all may not move together, if, for example the board and print slid but the glass didn't slide with it, you could slide the glass over the print and scrape the surface with an edge - don't ask how I know that.

It's always a good idea to seam the edges of glass whenever it's in contact with artwork and there's a risk of an edge sliding across the surface (removing flumbs for example) - I use one of these

http://www.lionpic.co.uk/product/TELUM- ... 717,0.aspx

Sliding spacers in to ali frames along with everything else (and especially with a loose print), can be a nightmare, even the ones that stick to the glass. Some profiles have separate channels for the glass.

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[CalicoFraming]

Thanks for all this, really helpful.

I still would like some advice about the semi-gloss paper if possible. Is it likely to be a problem if in contact with the glass?

Many thanks

[Roboframer]

http://frametek.com/HTML/Articles/Buckling.html

[dandydon07]

Hi,
If you check my posts you will see I recently had a big problem with aluminium frames.

You may already be doing this but I would definitely recommend dry mounting the picture as when using aluminium frames (in my experience) they dont press the picture down as well as using normal wooden frames with framers points.

You will see in my previous posts that all the prints were 'rippling' so I had to take them all apart and get them dry mounted. Really annoying as you can imagine the time and effort to do this for 20+ frames.

Good luck,

Ian

[CalicoFraming]

Thanks for the advice Ian. In fact, I got it dry mounted today in the anticipation that I'd need to use spacers. As it happens the guy that did it for me said it was photographic paper but would be alright pressed against the glass. In retrospect, I thought to myself, I didn't need to go to the expense of dry mounting, but in light of what you say I'm glad I did!

Frame arrives tomorrow; wish me luck!