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by A3DFramer
Sun 25 Nov, 2018 12:46 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Best adhesive for.....
Replies: 9
Views: 3781

Re: Best adhesive for.....

The silicone glass to glass bond is enormously strong. One possibility is;

cut a hole in your mount card 10-15 mm square, tape a small piece of glass 30 -40mm square on the back of the mount card, put silicone on the glass showing through the mountcard, press the bottle into the and position.
by A3DFramer
Thu 11 Oct, 2018 11:10 am
Forum: Adverts/Sales/Wants
Topic: ORTEGUIL ORC 55 mitre trimmer, north Cumbria
Replies: 2
Views: 2349

Re: ORTEGUIL ORC 55 mitre trimmer, north Cumbria

Nostalgic!! Looks a little bit older than the model Collectors Cases produced the triple double mitres for over 300,000 glass cases. Any framer thinking of turning their hand to glass covers and picture frame cases would be well equipped with this equipment. Bonded Glass Covers with wood capping. Ca...
by A3DFramer
Fri 28 Sep, 2018 10:24 am
Forum: After Hours
Topic: Framed wax sculpture
Replies: 8
Views: 7258

Re: Framed wax sculpture

There has been quite a shift in the commercial nature of house clearance auctions, but the previous post reminds me of how I started. I was not making a good enough living in the family farm business, so I started to augment my income from a bit of dealing, the relationship between livestock and ant...
by A3DFramer
Wed 26 Sep, 2018 9:07 am
Forum: After Hours
Topic: Framed wax sculpture
Replies: 8
Views: 7258

Re: Framed wax sculpture

Interesting art media wax. Restoring old cases, was a pastime that bought contact with a few. As wax is translucent it can impart a depth that can be varied by adjusting the opacity with the pigment added to it and it would seem that the better artist used this with surface colour as well. Collector...
by A3DFramer
Thu 20 Sep, 2018 10:57 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Brown gummed paper tape
Replies: 15
Views: 7506

Re: Brown gummed paper tape

Excuse me for asking but it sounds as if you know where to get this stuff. I had assumed it was all but extinct. :roll: The short answer is,"Sadly no". I have been out of the loop for getting on 15 years. But I will try to add to this quest, I did have various grades of BGPT, how they cam...
by A3DFramer
Wed 19 Sep, 2018 10:44 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Brown gummed paper tape
Replies: 15
Views: 7506

Re: Brown gummed paper tape

Just as an aside there is another reason why framers could be using good quality BGPT, it is a very quick and effective way of making glass covers. The Victorians and Edwardian taxidermists and other model makers used it in proliferation and their work has survived to this day. It is probable a more...
by A3DFramer
Sun 26 Aug, 2018 12:18 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Gaudy gun......
Replies: 4
Views: 2756

Re: Gaudy gun......

Once, a long time ago I got a serious telling off for framing an antique pistol. I hesitated before passing on this observation, but the person, who took me to task was an ex-military armourer, turned private gunsmith and had acted as a valuer for some prominent auction houses. At the time I was qui...
by A3DFramer
Fri 17 Aug, 2018 6:53 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Framing a paving slab??!?!
Replies: 15
Views: 6421

Re: Framing a paving slab??!?!

I think you might have put the cart before the horse in choosing the moulding before the method of hanging. At first I thought this an interior decor job for a manufacturer of slabs. So this idea might be a bit off, but I will describe my initial thoughts so they may be some help. I would weld or ha...
by A3DFramer
Mon 13 Aug, 2018 8:17 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: selling to interior designers
Replies: 4
Views: 2871

Re: selling to interior designers

For years I sold to interior designers without realising it, because I sold to the wholesalers they went to. My product was on the walls of the places previously decorated, which they wanted a slice of the action, I made a rule not to bypass my main customer base, which was those outlets with multi-...
by A3DFramer
Fri 03 Aug, 2018 7:29 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Need your views and opinions
Replies: 49
Views: 20609

Re: Need your views and opinions

Ironic innit, I can remember when Boots offered a framing service and before all the old Edwadian shops left our high streets, I was picking up pictures with their names on in the antique sales. Now the franchises that sprang up on the tail end of the framing boom, with names like Frame Art, Frame W...
by A3DFramer
Fri 03 Aug, 2018 8:00 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Need your views and opinions
Replies: 49
Views: 20609

Re: Need your views and opinions

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by A3DFramer
Mon 30 Jul, 2018 9:08 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Need your views and opinions
Replies: 49
Views: 20609

Re: Need your views and opinions

I think I have been a sideline observer of the framing industry for the better part of 50 years. I wonder if the underlying reason of the OP's request is as simple as the need for a catchy phrase. Perhaps he remembers Charles Downing, I hope I remember the name correctly, because he persuaded me to ...
by A3DFramer
Thu 19 Jul, 2018 10:04 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Workshop Tools
Replies: 6
Views: 3405

Re: Workshop Tools

During the 1980-90 my company many thousand deep boxes of varying depths for pub decor. We would rip down 8x4 sheets into 8ft strips of 2",3" or 4" depths, mitre & underpin into appropriate size boxes, for the front edge of the case we had a variety of mouldings many 'off the shel...
by A3DFramer
Mon 16 Jul, 2018 2:38 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Getting into Framing cost of Morso, Underpinner , Mat cutter
Replies: 6
Views: 3681

Re: Getting into Framing cost of Morso, Underpinner , Mat cu

If you fancy a trip over, I am thinking of sending a pneumatic underpinner down to the local tip. Probably done about 20 years work and then lain idle for another decade, bit dusty. That goes for a vacuum hot press and an oval mount cutter. Probably hang on to the morso and Ortigueil hand mitre, not...
by A3DFramer
Tue 15 May, 2018 11:37 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Framing a Diecast Aerolane
Replies: 2
Views: 2336

Re: Framing a Diecast Aerolane

Sorry this is probably too late but I do not look in here very often. I have been retired for a long while. There is another way of framing items such as this. That is to make glass sides to project from the frame. I suspect the model has an undercarriage and the picture frame case, better known in ...
by A3DFramer
Fri 20 Apr, 2018 2:28 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Sea shells and silicone
Replies: 5
Views: 2762

Re: Sea shells and silicone

Amazing how time changes things, I have just returned for Lidl where there is a very serviceable looking glue gun on offer for about £5. As my business got directed toward creating pub decor, the only practical means of fixing artifacts into displays was silicone because the gel properties gave the ...
by A3DFramer
Fri 20 Apr, 2018 10:19 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Sea shells and silicone
Replies: 5
Views: 2762

Re: Sea shells and silicone

See this sort of query come up from time to time on the odd occasions I look in here. It may be worthwhile thinking about the mechanics of the glue point. I came into the pub decor scene just as it started to boom in the late 1970's, from another direction than the tradition interior decor/ framing ...
by A3DFramer
Fri 22 Jul, 2016 9:29 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Small box frames
Replies: 26
Views: 11647

Re: Small box frames

I started my business doing antique fairs, though now long retired, the time was before Sunday Opening and the Weekend trade was very vibrant. A lesson I soon learn was; Was I selling to the public or to other stall holders. The advice from others is sound, even then long before IKEA, cheap framing ...
by A3DFramer
Thu 24 Mar, 2016 2:44 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Compo recipe and directions
Replies: 2
Views: 2305

Re: Compo recipe and directions

Thanks for that description it was most informative. during a period in my working life when I was travelling the antique fairs and dealing in items of 3D framing art work, a display of butterflies on modelled modelled branch and leaves passed through my hands. These were not of the usual quality of...
by A3DFramer
Thu 25 Feb, 2016 12:38 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Joining mouldings cut on side
Replies: 15
Views: 6239

Re: Joining mouldings cut on side

Purely by coincidence I was researching a tutorial on Sketchup and these videos were close by; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=donBPcmhUMA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEgRWSqkoXI How technology has advanced, had I had the benefit of the internet when I made the joint I described in my previous p...