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- Sun 29 Oct, 2023 3:53 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Nitric Acid?
- Replies: 6
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Re: Nitric Acid?
Thank you for sharing your hard-won experience, Dermot. Really, thank you.
- Sun 29 Oct, 2023 2:00 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Nitric Acid?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4567
Re: Nitric Acid?
Thank you, Dermot, Jerome and Prospero -- much appreciated. Perhaps there are no shortcuts. In 'Practical Gilding' by Peter and Ann MacTaggart the only assistance is hidden in a short sentence to coat the areas one wants with shellac then dust rottenstone into the cracks and fissures. Here's a photo...
- Sun 29 Oct, 2023 10:33 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Nitric Acid?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4567
Nitric Acid?
Hi, Need help over how to bite into gold leaf and gesso to get that aged look. Mechanical wear is essential but it can look somewhat pretentious on its own. Does Nitric acid work and if so at what strength. I have been reading about Aqua Regis. But again I know nothing. Can anyone offer any assistan...
- Tue 30 Jul, 2019 10:17 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Half-Lap Joints / Machinery
- Replies: 21
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Re: Half-Lap Joints / Machinery
Prospero's sorcery -- could be a good title?
It was mine Art,
When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape
The pine and let thee out.
— The Tempest, Act 1, scene 2.
It was mine Art,
When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape
The pine and let thee out.
— The Tempest, Act 1, scene 2.
- Mon 29 Jul, 2019 5:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Half-Lap Joints / Machinery
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7779
Re: Half-Lap Joints / Machinery
You are wicked, Prospero. Quel genius! Thanks for the head's up guys. So table saw is best? Perhaps I was just trying to shirk the hard work. Prospero, though it is a marvel and great for a stretcher, the half laps are for a frame -- think all those Cornish Mod Brits, Hepworth, Nicholson, Lanyon etc...
- Mon 29 Jul, 2019 12:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Old frame with woodworm - advice?
- Replies: 15
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Re: Old frame with woodworm - advice?
Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole..... Sorry, just having fun. I've messed a round with these sorts of frames before -- it ended in tears. As the man says, tape top the back and take it to an auction.
- Mon 29 Jul, 2019 12:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Half-Lap Joints / Machinery
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7779
Half-Lap Joints / Machinery
Hi, Advice needed, please! Can anyone recommend a decent machine for making half-lap joints about, say, 90-100mm wide? At present I'm using a cheap Titan table saw from Screwfix, which, if set up and treated carefully, is absolutely brilliant. However there is a good deal of sawdust and it is a slow...
- Sun 28 Apr, 2019 5:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Toning
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4886
Re: Toning
Thanks guys. You are very generous with your help. Very kind indeed. I like the idea of a blow torch very much - all 3 ideas are crackers - apols.
- Sat 27 Apr, 2019 10:15 am
- Forum: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
- Topic: Massive Mouldings
- Replies: 43
- Views: 37671
Re: Massive Mouldings
Forgive me, Prospero, I mean
- Sat 27 Apr, 2019 10:13 am
- Forum: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
- Topic: Massive Mouldings
- Replies: 43
- Views: 37671
Re: Massive Mouldings
That’s some sandwich, Robo. Yum-scrum.
- Sat 27 Apr, 2019 10:08 am
- Forum: Outgassing
- Topic: Van Gough Works Deteriorating
- Replies: 5
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Re: Van Gough Works Deteriorating
Interesting. Not so long ago a senior director of a major American museum messaged me privately about his Monet, bits of the painting were shearing off at a disturbing rate and they were desperate. There is a lot of secrecy surrounding the care of pictures, despite global conservation conventions et...
- Sat 27 Apr, 2019 9:56 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Toning
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4886
Toning
Does anyone have any ideas on how this finish (see photo) can be achieved? I need to tone down the side walls of a frame and thought that this technique looked good (and timeless)
Grateful for any tips.
Ben
Grateful for any tips.
Ben
Re: Glass
Interesting, Mark.
Reminiscent of the way new perspex magnetically sucked acrylic paint from the surfaces in the ? 60s/70s.
Reminiscent of the way new perspex magnetically sucked acrylic paint from the surfaces in the ? 60s/70s.
Re: Glass
Prospero, ur a pedant, but we love you
Re: Glass
Great so uv 70 is the way to go. Mind, two years ago at the Manchester art gallery, sitting in their caf, surrounded by lovely paintings.... except every single one of them was peppered with little green spots, about the size of tennis balls. It was the non-reflective glass in the frames turning the...
- Mon 11 Mar, 2019 8:59 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Bleaching oak
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2900
Re: Bleaching oak
Thanks guys, Mark, Dermot etc. Bottle of Liberinon order. Looking at that link, it seems a shame to remove all that beautiful patina. In my case I’m trying to add ‘touch and time’, to soften the new oak.
Re: Glass
Thanks, YPF.
TBH I'll probably just stick to normal glass, the priority stuff being so expensive... people quite like looking at themselves after all.
Regards to the doggies.
TBH I'll probably just stick to normal glass, the priority stuff being so expensive... people quite like looking at themselves after all.
Regards to the doggies.
- Sun 10 Mar, 2019 2:15 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Bleaching oak
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2900
Bleaching oak
Anyone have much experience.... products, pitfalls etc.?
Much obliged.
Much obliged.
Glass
Old subject, apologies, but can anyone recommend glass for a 50X40cm oil. Requirements: cheap, easily cuttable, no tone and very little reflection. For a dark toned oil painting. UV is not a big problem as the oil pigments are robust. With thanks, Ben Robo, am hoping for info and your good experience.
- Fri 03 Aug, 2018 11:03 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Casein v Egg Tempera
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1930
Re: Casein v Egg Tempera
Thanks Dermot, most interesting. Would you say casein is more brittle? I want a crisp effect. Perhaps like a layer has broken off, like one might find on an old frame. Frustratingly Cornellissen only supply casein powder by the 1kg bag — I have lots of pigments and a sack of lime in the farm shed an...