The Framers Forum

20 miles is not so bad, perhaps there's a nice place to grab a quick cuppa while you are on route as well.
Glad you have got a good outcome.
Mark.

Good paperwork can save you both time and money and in all likelyhood it will make your life much easier. It also becomes much more vial as the number of people working in your shop increases and then the paperwork makes it easier for various members of staff to work together as an effective team, w...

Mouldings of similar styles to that were popular in the 1970's and the 1980's for companies who supplied framed artworks to large hotels and places like that. They were produced by specialist manufacturers who catered specifically for that particular market sector. There was a big boom in building n...

It might be worth checking out some of your existing framing suppliers as some of these operate their own in house mount cutting service. I don't know which different suppliers do this, but Wessex Pictures certainly used to offer such a service via Wessex Fine Art before Covid came along and they ev...

Hi again Christine, Is there an adjustment for the spring tension on the clamping lever to enable the front of the clamping bar to close to gap at the front. This is likely to be the best way of adjusting this gap, if such a adjustment is available. Beyond that possiblity, I don't have much else to ...

That's not an easy one to match! However have you looked at the lion Mod range? It in my last Lion catalogue, but not on their website. The dimensions for the larger, squarer moulding in this range are not too far off. There is a teal blue one in the range, but the outside face looks like a medium d...

Hi Christine and welome, This might not be an easy question to answer. Not being able to examine the said guillotine, it is probably best to try asking a few questions to see if helps us to understand what is the cause of the problem. First of all can you confirm that the guillotine is complete with...

It's a wide flat moulding which has been flipped through 90 degrees, so that the rabate is not at the rear of the frame. The fillet is added into the rear of the frame and this completes the turning of the frame into a tray. The fillet is the flat surface at the rear of the frame onto which the canv...

I make mine using a flat oak moulding with the rabate turned to the rear of the frame and a fillet fixed in the rebate. Most of the convenintly sized flat oak mouldings are not that convenient for underpinning into the edge of the sight edge lip, so I just clamp and cross nail the corner joints with...

Yes, I have the 1200mm / 48 inch ultimat gold. From what I remember, I believe that you are correct in what you are saying' I sometimes cut mounts from normal sized sheets of mountbord cut in half for framing football shirts and I can cut mounts for this using my 1200mm ultimat gold with any problem...

At the time that the Futura was originally introduced Keen cut were offering a conversion kit to upgrade earlier model to the same standard a the Future, but replacing the long cutting bar, cutting head and stops, so the size of mountboard that any given size of Future mountcutter will be the same a...

Ivory is an organic material and the usual thinking of trained conservators in when gluing anything which is organic, to only consider using totally organic based adhesives. Whatever else you may consider, do not use super glue because super glue eats into ivory! These look quite thin and potential ...

It is not usually necessary to dismantle the whole framing gun. If the gun is misfiring, undo the two screws at the front of the gun and clean out and dust a debries. Reassemble this and try it again. If it is still misfiring you need to fit a new hammer blade. Do do this you still do not need to di...

This is what the value of the pound has been doing this year.

https://www.exchangerates.org.uk/GBP-US ... story.html

If you normally have this moulding in stock, it might cost more when you come to reorder it.

Thanks Peter.

Is that all? That's not a lot, when you consider that the headline rate of inflation has usually increased prices more than that!

Thank you Keith, I appeciate all the trouble you went too, to get those comments. I have over the years encountered various different narrow black mouldings and usually the cheaper, or often the most narrow involve a lot more effort to make the finished frame properly presentable. A lot of the narro...

I am considering buying an additional microwave oven and an additional coffee pod machine for down in the shop. I probably with go for some cook in the microwave bags of Uncle Ben's rice, which I already like in certain flavours. Tomato and basil, and spicy mexican are already amoung my favourites. ...

4mm marine ply is far less prone to delaminating and produces very clean cut edges, because each layer of ply is bonded with a very strong waterproof glue. A company which I used to work for got standard sized pieces of marine ply die stamped to the sizes requires for assembling transist equipment c...

The plywood suggestion makes a lot of sense and it is probably worth checking out suppliers who supply plywood for boat building. It's quite a long time since I was involved in designing things produced from thin plywood, hopefully my information still holds true. At the time, there was a readily av...