The Framers Forum

Sounds like a suitable subject for a picture frame case, glass sides glass front. Popular with the Victorians when they only had brown paper parcel tape to make their cases, with choice of materials and bonding methods today the choice of methods and styles could be limitless. Following on from Pros...

This is a difficult one, so many styles of nursing hat worn in so may ways. I am married to a nurse, my ruby wedding anniversary disappearing into the mists of time and my first reaction would be to say that only a proper nurse (ward trained pre-1980's) would know how to even put the right character...

Could you do something like this

I used to make foam head forms, among'st other shapes to display uniforms, caps, hats, wigs. It was before the ready mixed foam came out of a can, which is used extensively in the building trade, I used closed cell foam sold for filling air spaces in fibre-glass boat hulls. Used to buy a gallon of p...

There is a way to remove a scratch from a pane of glass, however all those who have said that it is better to get a new pane of glass, are probably correct in the the majority of occasions that the framer would experience. I have worked with glass fabricators, who might come up with the instance tha...

Hi Dave, Interesting intro, I spent 30 years making decorative wall decor and got into it via hobby-redundancy-re-training, though my re-training was self taught and more along the lines of invention. I wish you luck in your pathway, popping in here from time to time enlivens my retirement as the gr...

I seem to remember reading in a Victorian novel a reference to the Picture Framer calling and disrupting the household. This would suggest that the role of the picture framer in a past time was to service the pictures in house and that much of the dilapidation found is due the lack of professional c...

In the early days of the 'pub decor' boom we used to have to put 100's of black and white photocopied line drawings with simple aqua-tint colouring on board prior to framing. This was done with wallpaper paste, it requires some skill to get the wetting out just right and not run the colours. Much of...

The only method not mentioned, I think, is the method used by framers in the pre-guillotine era. That is a shooting board, where the framer made a wooden jig and used a plane to smooth finish the surface of the mitre cut. Perhaps your tutor might know some designs, if your college has access to wood...

My business used to frame all of the signed cricket bats for the Professional Cricket Association, until I retired. The PCA preferred a glass case set in a frame for bats. The year Graham Hick scored his 100th century for Worcestershire, we got an order that autumn for 50 cased bats to be collected ...

Richard Burbidge of Oswestry, I believe have now taken over the Mason's moulding manufacturing factory in Nottingham do a range of angles in both soft woods and hard woods. Their mouldings are off the shelf in most DIY stores. Originally angle mouldings came in Ramin and this was compatible with sil...

Front lift-off covers, used to do a lot of them especially when I traveled the antique markets, once cased the Duke of Wellington's brief case for Trust House Fortes using this technique. Make a unit that fits to the wall on which the object reposes and a cover that rests over it a separate unit. Ca...

Having a busy life being retired and my seasonal obligation to 'Green Bean Chutney', I return to this topic perhaps too belatedly to be of immediate help, but you say it may be an ongoing subject. There seems to be 2 main points of service to your client. 1.To fix the egg without compromise. 2.To di...

The painted ends; Easily reversed if you have steady hands and I good eye, which I once had :( . Try it on another egg if you wish. Take a fine drill and set it into the center of the cross section of a piece of dowel, about the size of a pencil. Hold the egg gently in one hand and press the tip of ...

Chinese painted eggs came double threaded with plastic bead, it was possible to stretch the thread by adding elasticated thread and make the so the could be rotated. As yours has been sealed the golf tee idea may work if you put a second reversed coming from the top. Some tees may have or be made to...

My observations may not be an answer to your immediate needs and I make them, because you have 2 sons, working with you and continuing into a framing business of the future. Since I retired from a business, which framed 3 dimensional displays, artwork and memorabilia for the commercial interior mark...

I use Sketchup, but I am not a picture framer and all my framing was 3D specializing in transparent covers. It takes time to make all your own models and collect textures. Sketchup is compatible with other forms of 3D modelling, I believe the models can be saved in file forms that are used in CAD an...

My apologies seemed to have left off the second paragraph of my post. Going back to the original question. I do not recall a product called 'Styxall' being mentioned on the forum, I think I have the name right. Similar to silicone sealant, but if my memory serves correct it does not have acetic acid...

You could consider a front lift-off cover with the shelved back being a separate item fixed to the wall. Customer has to DIY the shelf unit securely to the wall, but it does away with a lot lot of time securing 30 units individually to a back board. Quite a lot of different methods you can employ to...

You can get various widths of lining tape from paint specialist, car spray suppliers etc. For straight clean lines I used to use a scalpel for scoring the paint before lifting the lining tape. I seem to remember if you use masking tape it is better to gold leaf first.