The Framers Forum

Thanks John, I like the extra weights idea, will give it a try

Steve

Hi Spit, I have just opened my own business, even though I've been framing for 2o years and I've just got a Excalibur 5000, I just wonder if you had any problems with the couterbalance for the top cutting head, mine runs up and down the right hand leg, or should I say it should run but it's realy ti...

Hi JGF's Sometimes when the moulding is soft or iffy base, it could be where the blades come together at the front, the waste wood has nowhere to go, so instead of cutting you are crunching the soft/iffy wood. Years ago you could buy some metal magnetic spacers to fit against the fence of the Morse ...

[/quote]although speaking for myself here. most of these papyrii we see are cheap shii... and shouldn't in my opinion be treated as being the same as say a LEP or other handmade paper.[/quote]

Ditto, Grahame

Steve N

Hi JGF's Where I used to work we would use a wide white/off white mount about with a minimum of 15cm boarder , drymount the photo and heatseal it to protect it from spillages. Also we would put it in the frame, with the glass behind the mount and photo, and use bendy tabs to secure it, then the Best...

Hi Áine
Yeah it was a bit, I love using the silk covered mounts, give a rich feel to the work.
Steve

Hi JGF's
I thought I'd post these images of a !st Edition Gone With The Wind
book jacket, I've only just finished mounting it on silk on a 3d mount.

Steve N

Gary, good luck for the future,
Prospero,- Thanks, I've booked you in for the last 2 weeks in August
Osgood,- Thanks , you just can not have to many can you?

Steve

Hi Áine,
Yeah it is great, one half of the roof is glazed, so we get a lot of natural light, best place in the building, it's where I work most of the time.

Steve

Hi JGF's We are not a garage framer but here are some shots of our prep room for measuring and drymounting and mounting of pictures http://www.postimage.org/aV1cBmn9.jpg http://www.postimage.org/aV1cBQiS.jpg http://www.postimage.org/aV1cCodS.jpg http://www.postimage.org/aV1cCZE0.jpg Sorry about the ...

You can say that again

NO DON'T

Steve N

I was work with a framer who had cut the top of his right thumb on the Morso. I asked him how he done it, he went on to show me with his left thumb, after the demo he had a matching pair it's true.

Steve

I'm not saying that PMA is heat activated, what I meant to say is because of the different types of plastic in the laminate, if (when it was laminated with heat) cools at different rates it will not lie flat, so no matter what you stick it with you will run into trouble, we have had them dome shape,...

Hi JGF's I would be very careful with trying to stick Large laminates down, in the past I have found that the laminates are two different plastics top and bottom, so on large maps or pictures when the laminate cools it might cool at different rates so that the laminated item might not lie flat, we j...

Hi Guys & Gals, I see from the postings quite a few of you use Colourmount mountboards do any of you have any problems with the storage of Colourmount, we use the 300 range, ours always seem to bend, giving us problems feeding into and cutting on the Fletcther 3100 wall cutter ( the trouble we h...

Many happy returns John, I'm at the show on the Wednesday, I buy you one there.

Steve N

Many happy returns John, I've just remembered I'm 54 this March ( is this a sign of age, forgetting things) now what was I saying......

Steve N (I think)

Ah plasticene, Reminds me of by boyhood :) In fact the village I grew up in was at one time the HQ of Plasticene, and was the only place in the world it was made. As kids we would go through the big waste bins at the factory for the scraps of plasticene. I do remember in those days plasticene did se...

Hi Twin Peaks I agree with prospero about style and fashion, another problem is the supplier being out of stock of mouldings, when I started framing 20 years ago, you used to have the odd moulding or mountboard out of stock, now with age of computer stock control there always seems to be more mouldi...

Hi Hugh,
That sounds intresting, I might have to pop around to see you, as our locations are both Bristol!
Regards Steve