The silicone glass to glass bond is enormously strong. One possibility is;
cut a hole in your mount card 10-15 mm square, tape a small piece of glass 30 -40mm square on the back of the mount card, put silicone on the glass showing through the mountcard, press the bottle into the and position.
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- Sun 25 Nov, 2018 12:46 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Best adhesive for.....
- Replies: 9
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- Thu 11 Oct, 2018 11:10 am
- Forum: Adverts/Sales/Wants
- Topic: ORTEGUIL ORC 55 mitre trimmer, north Cumbria
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2489
Re: ORTEGUIL ORC 55 mitre trimmer, north Cumbria
Nostalgic!! Looks a little bit older than the model Collectors Cases produced the triple double mitres for over 300,000 glass cases. Any framer thinking of turning their hand to glass covers and picture frame cases would be well equipped with this equipment. Bonded Glass Covers with wood capping. Ca...
- Fri 28 Sep, 2018 10:24 am
- Forum: After Hours
- Topic: Framed wax sculpture
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7842
Re: Framed wax sculpture
There has been quite a shift in the commercial nature of house clearance auctions, but the previous post reminds me of how I started. I was not making a good enough living in the family farm business, so I started to augment my income from a bit of dealing, the relationship between livestock and ant...
- Wed 26 Sep, 2018 9:07 am
- Forum: After Hours
- Topic: Framed wax sculpture
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7842
Re: Framed wax sculpture
Interesting art media wax. Restoring old cases, was a pastime that bought contact with a few. As wax is translucent it can impart a depth that can be varied by adjusting the opacity with the pigment added to it and it would seem that the better artist used this with surface colour as well. Collector...
- Thu 20 Sep, 2018 10:57 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Brown gummed paper tape
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7828
Re: Brown gummed paper tape
Excuse me for asking but it sounds as if you know where to get this stuff. I had assumed it was all but extinct. :roll: The short answer is,"Sadly no". I have been out of the loop for getting on 15 years. But I will try to add to this quest, I did have various grades of BGPT, how they cam...
- Wed 19 Sep, 2018 10:44 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Brown gummed paper tape
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7828
Re: Brown gummed paper tape
Just as an aside there is another reason why framers could be using good quality BGPT, it is a very quick and effective way of making glass covers. The Victorians and Edwardian taxidermists and other model makers used it in proliferation and their work has survived to this day. It is probable a more...
- Sun 26 Aug, 2018 12:18 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Gaudy gun......
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2842
Re: Gaudy gun......
Once, a long time ago I got a serious telling off for framing an antique pistol. I hesitated before passing on this observation, but the person, who took me to task was an ex-military armourer, turned private gunsmith and had acted as a valuer for some prominent auction houses. At the time I was qui...
- Fri 17 Aug, 2018 6:53 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Framing a paving slab??!?!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7145
Re: Framing a paving slab??!?!
I think you might have put the cart before the horse in choosing the moulding before the method of hanging. At first I thought this an interior decor job for a manufacturer of slabs. So this idea might be a bit off, but I will describe my initial thoughts so they may be some help. I would weld or ha...
- Mon 13 Aug, 2018 8:17 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: selling to interior designers
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3276
Re: selling to interior designers
For years I sold to interior designers without realising it, because I sold to the wholesalers they went to. My product was on the walls of the places previously decorated, which they wanted a slice of the action, I made a rule not to bypass my main customer base, which was those outlets with multi-...
- Fri 03 Aug, 2018 7:29 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Need your views and opinions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 21698
Re: Need your views and opinions
Ironic innit, I can remember when Boots offered a framing service and before all the old Edwadian shops left our high streets, I was picking up pictures with their names on in the antique sales. Now the franchises that sprang up on the tail end of the framing boom, with names like Frame Art, Frame W...
- Fri 03 Aug, 2018 8:00 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Need your views and opinions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 21698
Re: Need your views and opinions
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- Mon 30 Jul, 2018 9:08 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Need your views and opinions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 21698
Re: Need your views and opinions
I think I have been a sideline observer of the framing industry for the better part of 50 years. I wonder if the underlying reason of the OP's request is as simple as the need for a catchy phrase. Perhaps he remembers Charles Downing, I hope I remember the name correctly, because he persuaded me to ...
- Thu 19 Jul, 2018 10:04 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Workshop Tools
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3597
Re: Workshop Tools
During the 1980-90 my company many thousand deep boxes of varying depths for pub decor. We would rip down 8x4 sheets into 8ft strips of 2",3" or 4" depths, mitre & underpin into appropriate size boxes, for the front edge of the case we had a variety of mouldings many 'off the shel...
- Mon 16 Jul, 2018 2:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Getting into Framing cost of Morso, Underpinner , Mat cutter
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3844
Re: Getting into Framing cost of Morso, Underpinner , Mat cu
If you fancy a trip over, I am thinking of sending a pneumatic underpinner down to the local tip. Probably done about 20 years work and then lain idle for another decade, bit dusty. That goes for a vacuum hot press and an oval mount cutter. Probably hang on to the morso and Ortigueil hand mitre, not...
- Tue 15 May, 2018 11:37 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Framing a Diecast Aerolane
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2535
Re: Framing a Diecast Aerolane
Sorry this is probably too late but I do not look in here very often. I have been retired for a long while. There is another way of framing items such as this. That is to make glass sides to project from the frame. I suspect the model has an undercarriage and the picture frame case, better known in ...
- Fri 20 Apr, 2018 2:28 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Sea shells and silicone
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2919
Re: Sea shells and silicone
Amazing how time changes things, I have just returned for Lidl where there is a very serviceable looking glue gun on offer for about £5. As my business got directed toward creating pub decor, the only practical means of fixing artifacts into displays was silicone because the gel properties gave the ...
- Fri 20 Apr, 2018 10:19 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Sea shells and silicone
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2919
Re: Sea shells and silicone
See this sort of query come up from time to time on the odd occasions I look in here. It may be worthwhile thinking about the mechanics of the glue point. I came into the pub decor scene just as it started to boom in the late 1970's, from another direction than the tradition interior decor/ framing ...
- Fri 22 Jul, 2016 9:29 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Small box frames
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12126
Re: Small box frames
I started my business doing antique fairs, though now long retired, the time was before Sunday Opening and the Weekend trade was very vibrant. A lesson I soon learn was; Was I selling to the public or to other stall holders. The advice from others is sound, even then long before IKEA, cheap framing ...
- Thu 24 Mar, 2016 2:44 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Compo recipe and directions
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2378
Re: Compo recipe and directions
Thanks for that description it was most informative. during a period in my working life when I was travelling the antique fairs and dealing in items of 3D framing art work, a display of butterflies on modelled modelled branch and leaves passed through my hands. These were not of the usual quality of...
- Thu 25 Feb, 2016 12:38 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Joining mouldings cut on side
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6394
Re: Joining mouldings cut on side
Purely by coincidence I was researching a tutorial on Sketchup and these videos were close by; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=donBPcmhUMA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEgRWSqkoXI How technology has advanced, had I had the benefit of the internet when I made the joint I described in my previous p...