The Framers Forum

You're buying materials wholesale and adding value by cutting, joining etc. If you're not charging a proper markup on materials then in effect you are supplying them at a wholesale price?!

I'm £105 & £230 no vat. I have a few framers on speed dial and we often price check and compare notes. They're not local to me, but we work to the same standards, so it has helped me ensure I'm not undercharging. When you say you have low overheads, are you sure that you are considering all of t...

It's also worth considering, will you need a customer space for presenting samples, creating designs etc. From a customer service as well as health and safety point of view, it is good to limit the space that customers have access to. By setting up a dedicated space near a door, with a table, sample...

As important as the size is the height of your work table. I'm 5'11" and I made mine 100cms high, which is a comfortable height to stand at for me. As JFeig said, mine is also made from a sheet of 8'x4'/1.2mx2.4m . That jumbo mount cutter is going to take up a lot of space!

Best sources for cassese parts, probably underpinner-spares.co.uk or framersequipment.co.uk

Offgassing

The recommendation is if it's over 1m2 then go to 3mm. I would be especially wary of using 2mm in a holiday cottage situation.

Bambi are "silent". Only a bit louder than a fridge. Mine is about a metre away from me when I work. Most compressors I wouldn't want to be in the same room as, let alone have a conversation while it's powering up.

Yes that grease sounds good.

I think the most important thing is to remove the hammer block every now and again, strip it down clean it and regrease it before replacing it, which reminds me...For releasing the handles you could try a dry lubricant spray?

Thing is, if I do a level 1 piece and want to price for volara tape or rebate tape, I can build it in to the software and charge accordingly.

Sounds good, I have a framer about 50 miles away to compare prices with. Just to check you're on the right page.

Why use glass as a backboard??

"Buy a Book" or go on a busman's holiday to beautiful West Wales and learn from a Master!

@tudorrose maybe the site needs one of those annoying "not a robot/I am human" verification thingamajigs?

@vintageframes World Domination obviously! Sleeper cells, once a member the AI program has access to the entire database and can improve it's understanding on the subject etc. It seems that this bot mistook picture framing for building framing?? As someone in the ether pointed out, we thought AI was...

I agree with JonathanB. Your methodology gives me serious red flags. I have followed the adage "charge as much as the market can bear" since my beginnings and even that has been no guarantee of making a living as there are so many other factors involved. But at any one time, knowing that y...

I would have a look at Rose & Hollis A333 extendable box frame moulding.

Sounds like you figured out the answer. Having suffered the same pain once, it's now the first thing I check with a square rule every time a canvas comes in. I have had to use slips in the past when there is no way to remedy the canvas.

Aah! That takes me back..." to the paradise city, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty.."!
Looks great!