The Framers Forum

Same. Nothing now… The PRS harassed me a few years back with phone calls and visits. Caught me once listening to talk radio in the workshop and said I’d need a license due to the jingles that Radio 5 play and that there was no permanent door in-between there and the shop!! I refused to pay for one a...

C2D52FC4-D235-4592-AF1F-57743DA37C0E.jpeg Being in the same town as the constabulary HQ we get our fair share of police display boxes to do but this one had a few more epaulettes than usual. The Chief no less!! As always the budget was minimal and sadly this one went out without artglass 😔 was almo...

LJ 638400000 has internal dims very close to 45x33mm. The facing edge is 15mm though. I guess you could rip it down if you have access to a table saw?

https://larsonjuhl.co.uk/mouldings/lars ... -638400000

Couldn't you glue/pin a discreet little spacer/batten to the base of your tray frame to make up the difference and screw through both from the back? Plumbers tape also makes a handy alternative when the canvas offsets aren't the right size. https://www.screwfix.com/p/ced-all-round-band-12mm-x-10m/18...

Re-stretch the canvas on standard stretcher bars would only give you 5mm sticking out. Is that still too much? Or rip some stretcher bar moulding to the right thickness?

The 70mm figure is going to be the overall depth of the blade - so 20mm from the braise line could well be very borderline depending on the angle you take the measurement from - vertically straight down to blade edge or at 45 degrees from braise line to blade edge. They might be OK for another shar...

TGS recommend once your blades get less than 70mm they need replacing. Sounds like yours are less than this?

https://www.tgsrepairs.co.uk/product/m ... by-hansen/

Thanks again everyone for the input. I love the idea of the painted bevel, colour matching is the way to go! Dermot, I like the blue thing going on here, I'm very tempted to to open it back up again and try to add the colour matched bevel Fruitini mentioned. I find it really tricky to make a decent...

Love the Portabello range from Lion. So versatile. You've found a great frame for your picture. I think I would gain the flash of blue that Jim was talking about with a painted bevel, and perhaps on a thicker board too. You can really dial in the colour match this way. If you don't fancy painting th...

TFI Friday! Further to the AI topic this image was generated using prompts on Midjourney AI image generator. Have been looking for some eye-catching art to showcase Lion’s great Oregon veneer range. Colourmount’s ‘Harvest’ linen mount completes the African vibe. https://www.lionpic.co.uk/p/42366/40m...

Great thread! Nice one Nick for the suggestion and Jo for setting it up. Here is my offering for this week…. Putting the Valiani through its paces! Just the 9 mounts on this one!!

Have you actually tried ringing TGS? Speak to Mark or Jamie. I reckon they’ll be able to hook you up with one.

TGS Repairs have one available on their website...

https://www.tgsrepairs.co.uk/product/us ... inigraf-4/

Yes ChatGPT does write very well! Would be ideal for blog posts and the like. I guess consistent use might become a bit robotic!!!

GigapixelAI is available here with a free trial https://www.topazlabs.com/gigapixel-ai

Here is a good tutorial on how it works.

Hi Nick - a delve into the forums user control panel will allow you to customise every element of notifications from the forum including email notifications regarding your own posts and replies, and also new posts from any user to a specific subforum. Facebook I find much less intuitive as far as no...

Haha. It really isn't that daunting. Click the link and sign up. They only want a username and email address. You are ready to go in seconds. Give it a whirl.

I think you are right and there most definitely is a market for those not so art savvy that don’t care much about art producers and provenance. Basically what they are looking for is a a subject of choice and in a colour to match the sofa or curtains. Of course these AI’s are trained on existing art...

Over the past month or so we have been dipping our toes into the world of AI and in particular experimenting with OpenAI’s DALL•E 2, which uses AI technology to create images and artwork from a simple text description. You are able to dial in a particular style, subject, influence and concept to cre...

I couldn’t find any either when I was looking so decided to make my own. It’s not very complicated really although I can’t remember exactly how I did it!!! :lol: If you can frame you should be able to figure out!! A few batons cut at the right angles, a bit of MDF tacked to it and a lick of paint! Y...

Do you have a heat press? MountCor Canvas (available from Lion) is a great product for adhering canvas. It activates at lower temperatures than usual dry mounting tissue/film so less potential to do damage to paint or inkjet surface of the canvas. The substrate is a 5mm stiff foamboard so could pote...