The Framers Forum

It's not really of any major importance for making frames as far as I can see. Whether that is likely to change as the economy affects businesses is a bit of an open question, if you ask me! It's funny how much it seems like a good idea when you have not got one. I personally think that they become ...

I don't find it very easy to feed long lengths of moulding through my router. I just don't have the degree of control to do that anymore, so Cut the mouldings down to more managable lengths, run them through the router and cut them properly to size afterwards. This may sound a bit crasy, but I don't...

I rather like the simple and subtile things a lot more than some of the stuff with much more use of the router. I my better quality router set there is an engraving bit which comes to a 30 degree point, I like to think that a thin line along the surface of a simple flat mounlding looks a bit special...

Maybe, I don't know that I had much idea at the time that it was too many toys! Perhaps I'm getting a bit old for all this as well.

I thought that I would be using mine quite lot, but that is not how things have turned out so far!

Hi Peter,

I don't have the space for doing something like that. I just looking at ways of down sizing a bit.

Hi Jeremy.

That makes sense! Unfortunately for me my customer is not much interested in bothering with any ncreased prices, he's already finding that demand for them has been tailing off a bit and I've either got to reduce my profits, or loose the deal. Not much fun for me!

I've just had a bit of a shock! The cost of the main oak moulding which I buy has already gone up quite a bit since I last bought any, which was about three and a half years ago and next month my supplier is further increasing their prices by another 5 percent. Speaking to my main customer for these...

As a general rule, I don't use my router very much with pine and in fact if I can avoid using it with pine at all, I will gladly avoid doing so. However Obeche is a different matter and there are a few nice cheap Obeche mouldings, which with a little added detail can quite easily look a lot more int...

How practical is it to cut moulding using an electric mitre saw? I've alawys understood that it's not very practical at all, but I already have a sliding mitre saw with a 10 inch diameter blade and I was just wondering how practical these are for the few that use them for cuttling mouldings. I alrea...

Man, you not kidding radial arm saws are seriously scarey and dangerous. I definitely don't want one of those! Much too scarey for me! I do have a sliding compound mitre saw, which will actual cope with cross cut widths at 90 degrees at 14 inches across. That almost counts as being able to perform s...

Hi Peter, I am thinking that the market for my would be little antique engraved prints which I already have. These prints are genuine antique prints and there would not be any question of making hand finished frames at all, that's just pointless. I have got a useful quantity of some old discontinued...

I have an electric scroll saw. It does not currently get used much, but I am thinking about getting around to making use of it a bit. I am thinking of making some stencils for possible decorative use. The idea has not really been fully thought through ay this stage, but might be used for decorating ...

There has been a bit of a trend for people looking for nick nacks for putting on display shelves and places like that. Before covid people used to go around car sales boots looking for stuff like that, but there are precious few car boots sales around near me at all and perhaps this is the same arou...

I have a bandsaw with a little pull out drawer where most of the saw dust collects inside the drawer. Not being a very thick blade, the saw dust is extremely fineand when mixed with a little PVA glue in makes a quick and easy wood filler which sands down very easy.

Cutting the underpinner in to the corner of the bench was really popular at one time, very few seem to do it at all now.

Euro made an underpinner where the wings were part of the underpinner and pointed upwards a sloping angle ange it sopported really large frames with only one operator needed.

There are times when I pull the underpinner away from the bench, if I need to doing larger frames, but I don't find it really ideal at all. I like to ratchet strap the underpinner to the bench to stop it moving about. I have some pieces of mountboard and backing board under the three legs of the und...

I haven't got a very big workshop, so above a certain size is just is not very helpful to me. I also have limit on what finished frame sizes I can easily store as well. Anything bigger that 5 feet in any direction is probably a problem for me. Having had a stroke and not walking very well, anything ...

I have a bench which is the same height as my under pinner. As i can probably imagine a bench extends further that the support that a pair of wings will probaly do so. Added to that, having the underpinner standing against the edge of the bench usually saves precious workshop space. I like my bench ...