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- Thu 30 May, 2024 10:47 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Frame Critique
- Replies: 14
- Views: 361
Re: Frame Critique
I think a thread on general frame/design critique would be good - a bit like Greg Perkins does on one of the framing facebook groups (or maybe used to - I left it a while ago) The same image treated in shout 20 different ways, list your top three. I wonder how this frame would fare around the same p...
- Wed 29 May, 2024 11:27 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Glass or plastic for this size frame?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 196
Re: Glass or plastic for this size frame?
I think if the customer is happy hoovering it and the frame was fixed to the wall with mirror plates, I’d ask myself to make the call - take it or leave it.
The same profile in aluminium would cope in the normal way, but would probably generate the same sticker shock.
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The same profile in aluminium would cope in the normal way, but would probably generate the same sticker shock.
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- Wed 29 May, 2024 7:31 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Frame Critique
- Replies: 14
- Views: 361
Re: Frame Critique
You could also.of course, obviously be missing something I'm seeingvintage frames wrote: ↑Wed 29 May, 2024 4:08 pm I'm obviously seeing something that JKX doesn't but then we all share the same inclinations - 'I knows wot I likes.'
- Wed 29 May, 2024 7:17 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: sticking spacers down
- Replies: 4
- Views: 86
Re: sticking spacers down
I think you were right first time, spacers; they sit in and are fixed to the rebate of the frame? Staples would look pretty nasty, unless they were covered with mount board.......... which you'd have to stick on. The belt & braces method is to glue them on, with PVA./wood glue, but use a couple ...
- Wed 29 May, 2024 2:51 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Frame Critique
- Replies: 14
- Views: 361
Re: Frame Critique
I didn’t bump it, the thread starter did, I don’t think I paid much attention until then, but it’s been so quiet I thought I’d see what it was all about. I can’t see how that black frame, regardless of what tonal values it has or how if was made, harmonises with that picture, it’s generally black an...
- Wed 29 May, 2024 10:03 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Frame Critique
- Replies: 14
- Views: 361
Re: Frame Critique
Yes, you already said.
- Wed 29 May, 2024 10:01 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Glass or plastic for this size frame?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 196
Re: Glass or plastic for this size frame?
I assumed this was going against the glass when I said no mount. Spacers are worse still, less supporting area and more airspace, still maybe OK but as Justin says - borderline.
- Wed 29 May, 2024 8:50 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Frame Critique
- Replies: 14
- Views: 361
Re: Frame Critique
Not for me, I like the frame and I like the art too, but not together!vintage frames wrote: ↑Sat 11 May, 2024 1:25 pm
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Notice also that although the frame is black, it has a depth and tone which harmonises perfectly with the picture.
- Tue 28 May, 2024 9:37 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Glass or plastic for this size frame?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 196
Re: Glass or plastic for this size frame?
It’s less than a square metre (0.793) so should be fine, especially (assuming) with no mount.
A subframe should only be required if the frame is too skinny for the size, ie could flex.
A subframe should only be required if the frame is too skinny for the size, ie could flex.
- Wed 22 May, 2024 6:15 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Larson Juhl - is this normal?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 523
Re: Larson Juhl - is this normal?
Larson juhl are renowned for swift reparation and excellent customer service. It looks like the distressing is inconsistent, if the framer thought that, before cutting and joining I’m sure they would have swapped it over or credited the invoice (and they likely wouldn’t even want the faulty moulding...
- Wed 22 May, 2024 4:18 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Larson Juhl - is this normal?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 523
- Wed 22 May, 2024 1:16 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Larson Juhl - is this normal?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 523
Re: Larson Juhl - is this normal?
Lap lines are a desirable feaure as it shows metal leaf has been used, they should be a consistent distance apart (on the same length), gold foil comes in sheets, not big long strips. If it was real gold leaf, there would be even more lap lines as the sheets are smaller. However, if the framer's sam...
- Sat 18 May, 2024 5:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Display area - what to include?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 424
Re: Display area - what to include?
We always had lots of framed and mounted/unfarmed work for sale and I never bought anything in framed, ever. I could always say to a customer "It's going to look something like .... THAT" If I remember right though, you have a clause preventing you selling goods, unless made to order, so p...
- Thu 16 May, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: A problem piece/home...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 738
Re: A problem piece/home...
@john so why not seal the package Well, although this may be OK in normal conditions then for these conditions, the same reason as you wouidn't tape a print all around, to allow movement, If the boards are going to move, they can only do that where there is no tape. Maybe this is the only thing the...
- Thu 16 May, 2024 12:48 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: A problem piece/home...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 738
Re: A problem piece/home...
Correx may help. especially two pieces bonded together with the flutes running perpendicular to each other, also, if you sealed the glass "sandwich" - don't this time. Maybe add extra deep custom made wall spacers made from acrylic or something, instead of the usual bumpons. Foil frame sea...
- Wed 15 May, 2024 12:34 pm
- Forum: Business Matters
- Topic: FramR chop price settings
- Replies: 12
- Views: 407
Re: FramR chop price settings
Well here’s what I did Framiac prices a chop job cheaper than a length job due to lack of wastage and labour (it’ll also price a chop and join job although no supplier does that, try that!) So I imagined two customers collecting the same frame job at the sane time with one wondering why their cost i...
- Wed 15 May, 2024 11:50 am
- Forum: Business Matters
- Topic: FramR chop price settings
- Replies: 12
- Views: 407
Re: FramR chop price settings
I thought they rounded chop price up to nearest half metre but they’ve rounded your 1.1m up to 1.3m
- Tue 14 May, 2024 5:22 pm
- Forum: Business Matters
- Topic: Pricing help
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1731
Re: Pricing help
To save time I created a dual backing board called (referenced) "undermount" in a few varieties. 1-6 or so. A combined undermount and backing, (not stuck together, just for pricing) each had its own description on the order form e.g. "Alphamat artcare 4 ply plus artbak" I did hav...
- Tue 14 May, 2024 9:37 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Relief maps - which adhesive
- Replies: 7
- Views: 376
Re: Relief maps - which adhesive
I'd apply the same principles for sticking anything together, double mounts, rebate spacers etc, and that is just a bit of self adhesive - say one small dab each side, to hold while the more reliable wet adhesive dries. This also allows much easier repositioning if you don't get it right first time....
- Sun 12 May, 2024 10:29 pm
- Forum: Business Matters
- Topic: Pricing help
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1731