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by JKX
Wed 05 Feb, 2025 1:18 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Mounting a ZX Spectrum.
Replies: 6
Views: 683

Re: Mounting a ZX Spectrum.

What Pramsay has shown is basically ‘formed rods’ which would be ideal. Piano wire is good just use whatever thickness suits. I showed how they’re done here https://theframersforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=9239 Photos would be good, back and front; if the back can be easily removed you could refit it ove...
by JKX
Wed 05 Feb, 2025 11:27 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Methods to this fabric panel please?
Replies: 10
Views: 1203

Re: Methods to this fabric panel please?

The DCO method does indeed use pressure but you can’t apply that anywhere bar the extremities really, and there is no artwork as such at that point here. Also the artwork is pushed in to - basically - a pillow, which makes any crushing of stitches etc, unlikely. Is this stitched or painted anyway? I...
by JKX
Wed 05 Feb, 2025 10:35 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Methods to this fabric panel please?
Replies: 10
Views: 1203

Re: Methods to this fabric panel please?

The artwork and border is probably stuck to a fusible fabric like vylene. If it lays pretty flat then just close frame it with a spacer to cover that brown edge. If that crimps it and makes it less flat then maybe add a stitch in each corner and another central each side, leave a few mm extra space ...
by JKX
Thu 30 Jan, 2025 2:51 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Any way to hang an unframed canvas board?
Replies: 17
Views: 7063

Re: Any way to hang an unframed canvas board?

They weigh nothing so how about a couple of those seriously sticky pads used for sticking dash cams to windscreens, then stick on a couple of bits of thin acrylic slightly longer with a hole drilled in one end for your cord,

When it warps it might come in for proper framing!

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by JKX
Wed 29 Jan, 2025 5:04 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Maintaining Depth at Assembly
Replies: 23
Views: 5675

Re: Maintaining Depth at Assembly

According to a "masterclass" I took with a conservator from Birmingham museum - museums do not store loose works on paper under window mounts, they are stored covered, completely covered, with paper, film or card; an aperture mount would serve no purpose and is for framing. When they hinge...
by JKX
Wed 29 Jan, 2025 11:43 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Boxing belt framing help please…
Replies: 1
Views: 1170

Re: Boxing belt framing help please…

On the Lonsdale belt you’re spoilt for choice of attachment points A few melinex straps through and/or around the metal links and then a couple more, as wide as possible behind the central badge will be perfect. The other one not so easy but there will be Velcro behind the small badge on that side, ...
by JKX
Wed 29 Jan, 2025 9:39 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Maintaining Depth at Assembly
Replies: 23
Views: 5675

Re: Maintaining Depth at Assembly

You’re not showing yourself up, you’ve only been at it a few months. Take some time to use the search facility here, then register on The Framers Grumble and search that too - it’s the best online resource there is. https://www.thegrumble.com/ There are some great books you can buy too, some of whic...
by JKX
Mon 27 Jan, 2025 3:18 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Maintaining Depth at Assembly
Replies: 23
Views: 5675

Re: Maintaining Depth at Assembly

I've got a the glass (2mm), double mount (each only 1.5mm), the print itself (paper thin, negligible), and then the card backboard (only 3mm). Well you need more rebate space still then, as there is no undermount! The undermount should be hinged along the longest side, to the aperture mount, to ope...
by JKX
Sun 26 Jan, 2025 9:56 pm
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Float framing
Replies: 9
Views: 19221

Re: Float framing

I'm assuming conservatrion is important as you mentiond conservation foam board. There is no such thing in regards to directly mounting artwork and the hedgehog (Roy Rowlands) method does not do that, the artwork is fixed to mount board which is either fitted back in to an aperture it was cut out of...
by JKX
Sun 26 Jan, 2025 9:49 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Maintaining Depth at Assembly
Replies: 23
Views: 5675

Re: Maintaining Depth at Assembly

Lion sells rabbetspace, it's quite expensive for what it is and it wouldn't be difficult to fashion something similar yourself. There is a slightly better way of botching this, use flexi tabs or semi rigis tabs (semi rigids would need a pneumatic gun), bend them over the backing board with the handl...
by JKX
Tue 21 Jan, 2025 11:32 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Waves and mould inside frame
Replies: 10
Views: 3318

Re: Waves and mould inside frame

This has been brought in to see if anything can be done. I haven't opened it up yet but it was framed by a gallery and I would assume has been hinged correctly etc. There is a damp 'tide mark' on the backing board, although the customer says it hasn't got wet, so we assume probably a damp wall. The...
by JKX
Mon 20 Jan, 2025 10:17 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Mount terminology
Replies: 4
Views: 1596

Re: Mount terminology

A shadow mount is a double mount spaced apart, maybe even a single mount spaced from the undermount. It can be used for effect (one I pesonally don't like) or for a dust/particle trap. A shadow float is self explanatory but a tight float, not so. Float mounted or raised float mount makes more sense ...
by JKX
Mon 20 Jan, 2025 9:45 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Double mounts, my brain vs the GCF
Replies: 5
Views: 1953

Re: Double mounts, my brain vs the GCF

This is what the GCF study guide says but for CMCs it should say “can be” not “are”, well actually it should be can be for manual mount cutters too! It’s whatever works for you and I don’t think the guild would frown on either way as long as the two layers are fixed well and the reveal is equal all ...
by JKX
Mon 20 Jan, 2025 9:23 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Mount terminology
Replies: 4
Views: 1596

Re: Mount terminology

Platform / envelope / encapsulation mount - are these not all the same thing? (window with a 1mm larger, straigh cut window underneath, no hinges) No< you're describing a platform mount, where the fallout goes back in to hold artwork in place. I don't know what an envelope mount is, and encapsulati...
by JKX
Tue 14 Jan, 2025 1:12 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Narrowest moulding
Replies: 9
Views: 2753

Re: Narrowest moulding

The customer may be looking for a wood product; you’re looking at something that may need bracing. The oak veneer on the wrapped metal mouldings is all that can be seen and touched once hung; the metal braces it! It’s one way to look at it and seeing as it will give what you want, or even smaller, I...
by JKX
Mon 13 Jan, 2025 1:20 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Narrowest moulding
Replies: 9
Views: 2753

Re: Narrowest moulding

Haved a look at Nielsen by design's aluminium profiles 34 and 181 ....... 5.5 and 8mm respectively. They are real wood veneer-wrapped and solve the skinny moulding/large frame problem - up to a point of course. I think there are a couple of other profiles and I think Lion do something similar too. h...
by JKX
Sat 11 Jan, 2025 5:07 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Recommend art deco moulding
Replies: 11
Views: 3689

Re: Recommend art deco moulding

I think that ship is the queen Mary, which had three funnels, the queen Elizabeth had two.

If it is, it should he RMS, not HMS.
by JKX
Sat 11 Jan, 2025 11:02 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Framing a heavy mirror
Replies: 2
Views: 1365

Re: Framing a heavy mirror

I don’t think you can buy 2mm mirror glass - certainly not from Wessex or Centrado anyway; they start at 3mm and it’s already safety-backed. The safety backing is only a polypropylene film but maybe that and the silvering makes it 3mm minimum? So no need to stick mirror to backing - if it does break...
by JKX
Fri 10 Jan, 2025 4:19 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Recommend art deco moulding
Replies: 11
Views: 3689

Re: Recommend art deco moulding

Here’s a couple of dark mounts with contrasting silver frames

Bugs has a sort of art deco design in the borders and the beaded frame is black on the side. The other, well it’s a ship at least! That one haas an embossed metallic mount, both have mount slips.