The Framers Forum

As the one who started this post, can I say: a) we found lots of the advice helpful and it has given us ideas we wouldn't have thought of; b) some of the ideas made us laugh out loud - and that is another thing I love about the forum, it makes me laugh a lot; c) the customer was driven by price to a...

It was a Secret Santa present some years ago that the boss brandishes at people when he is in that sort of mood (makes me glad my office working days are over). The boss is now leaving and so the rest of the office are getting this for him as a leaving pressie. We are possibly adding a "break g...

Smartly dressed woman walks in to the workshop brandishing a crowbar, do you:- a) presume the worst and cower behind the counter :sweating: ; or b) greet your regular customer warmly and hope you haven't done anything to offend her in some way :sweating: ; or c) greet your regular customer warmly an...

We always cut suedette mountboard from the back - that is the only surefire way to avoid tramlines.

Hello Mal

We are both very interested in attending this, can you add us to the list please.

Thanks

Tudor Rose (& Trigger too)

The first thing that got installed before the internet connection went live on the CMC computer was the antivirus (all singing and dancing version). Apart from having internet access, nothing else gets done on this computer apart from running the CMC and the occasional game of chess! The very long c...

At this very minute we are having a cable fitted to connect our CMC desktop PC with our broadband hub that is at the far side of the workshop next to my everything else PC and desk. It is about 35ft and the cable is going up and over the roof supports and down to connector boxes at each end, then sh...

We are back at work this morning and buzzing with ideas after such a great weekend - congratulations to JGF#1 and Mrs JGF#1, you both did an amazing job, with of course your fantastic team of all the other organisers around you, congratulations to all of you too. Watching Grahame sorting out the cam...

Thanks for the info, but have you got an Arqadia number to save me trolling through the catalogue?

Tudor Rose

Hello Does anyone have any length of Simons 4000/0006 moulding or know where we could try to source some from - Simons have no stock and none on order, we have a customer who wants 2 frames and we only have enough enough to do 1 and a bit! If anyone can help we would appreciate it. The customer is c...

We use Arqadia Visifiles in our plan chest and for more delicate items we have a shelving unit with the shelves quite close together so each piece gets its own shelf without the whole thing taking up too much room. The plan chest and Visifiles take most things though and they are great for protectin...

So yesterday morning while the family was getting ready for school and work, our elder son comes in to our bedroom with a tale of woe about his sore back (mainly due to growing pains) and how it might be easier for him to have a day resting it rather than going in to school. Knowing that he had doub...

They all look good but votes are:

1 and 4 for Trigger
1 and 5 for me

Tudor Rose

We needed to do some tweaks to our Fletcher to keep it running smoothly, and we also lost our allen key. We phoned Roy Rowlands and also spoke to him at the Lions event last October, and he sorted everything out for us. The allen key is an American one so may need to be sent over from there. Roy is ...

We have used Mighty Core on many occasions and it is a really good dense foamboard to use. Cuts easily with a craft knife and glues well with PVA etc. Lions sell it in various forms and thicknesses, but there are also variations on the density so check out their catalogue. We tried to get some 13mm ...

Last year we invested in a new van with our logo etc on it and a CMC. Both have made a difference to our business. Our van is a Volkswagen Transporter with 2 rows of seats so we use it as our family vehicle as well as the work vehicle. The extra seats come out if we need to use the space. Before we ...

That's very exciting Bagpuss - and even more so when I realised that I am sitting in front of you and hubby (Trigger) is sitting next to me! So we get to be famous too

We have just had three bank notes in for framing: first one is for 500 million dollars the second one is for 100 billion dollars and the third one is for 100 trillion dollars :shock: got really excited until we noticed they were from Zimbabwe :Slap: actual value - less than 5p for the lot of them! O...

Hello All We have a customer who has brought in three rolls of handpainted silk wallpaper which they had commissioned. The silk has a paper backing. Each piece is approx just over 2m by 1m and of course they are unique. The customer wants them mounted on to board and then framed (without glass) in a...

Despite having been framing for many years and despite having bought and used our Hot Press Vacuum Press for a year before we booked our free course with Hot Press, hubby and I had a fantastic day in Bristol. Not ony did we learn so much more about the machine, even getting to see some of them being...