The Framers Forum

I am float mounting my own largish watercolours (55x75cm) by using foam board as a 'float' and mount board as a backing. Using archival double sided tape (which is what I have to hand) is not always proving strong enough so the foam board is coming away from the mount board (not helped the weight of...

thanks again, for your input, it really does seem to suggest Cassesse is the one to go for, and judging by the price second hand ones fetch on ebay other people feel the same. They are not cheap.

Has anyone got/know of a CS 79, or CS 88 they want to sell? Not too many miles from east of England?

I have just been offered a second hand underpinner. It is a Gielle F100. Having decided it was a good idea to look out for a Cassesse I would like any information on Gielle and wondered if there is anything (good/bad/idiosyncratic etc.)I should know about them. thaks all for your advice so far and I...

Thank you everyone for your advice, it does seem as if the Cassesse is the one to look out for (in my case preferably a good secondhand one). John, if you don't know the Kimberley, it is a clamping device which you clamp the corner in then turn over and place on a plinth where the hand operated wedg...

I need advice please. I am an artist but for 10 years have been framing my own work using an incredibly basic but well made Kimberley, hand operated underpinner. It still works but I want to upgrade to one, preferably benchtop, which drives the wedge in from underneath so I don't have to turn the fr...