The Framers Forum

Well, maybe if I was still in business. Any new things learned need to be garden, DIY, calligraphy ….. etc related now!

I’ll be leaving that Facebook group before the end of sept as part of my framing rehab, photoshopping framed artwork would be a step back.

Simons do a few nice solid oak and ash spacers, they’re the only ones I ever underpinned, in fact they’re the only ones I ever bought, the rest were free, from long skinny foam board and mount board scraps you’d normally toss.

I'm not sure I have the photo editing skills.

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...

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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vintage 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.'

You could also.of course, obviously be missing something I'm seeing

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 ...

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...

Yes, you already said.

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.

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.

Not for me, I like the frame and I like the art too, but not together!

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.

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...

aa1975 wrote: ↑Wed 22 May, 2024 2:27 pm

Interesting to learn all this (intrigued why the foil is not applied longitudinally instead of transversally - or do they come in very shor strips?).

They come in squares

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...

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...

@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...

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...

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...

I thought they rounded chop price up to nearest half metre but they’ve rounded your 1.1m up to 1.3m