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What, it's better ?

If you use Sellotape which is around the same as masking tape, you will not see it under the rebate, just trim after you frame, running a sharp blade around the sight edge

Like it A3DFramer, I was thinking something very much on the same lines

I believe that they were first used by a German museum and they used to paint them grey, so it they should be called after the museum

The phase "Nit Picking" springs to mind

Seems a shame to paint those lovely grained woods

Some other things to think about. If you make her pay for the materials, she would be entitled to take them with her. Also it would fuel the their thinking that you were trying to rip them off, because if that is all it cost in material, why are you charging so much to frame these pictures, it's imm...

Tudor Rose wrote:
I would sink mount it - that way it is fully secured in position and no adhesives are touching it at all and there is no danger of it slipping in the future.

That's the way I would go.

Well that's what being in business is all about, you just got to take it on the chin, you lose some , both you win a damn sight more

I had a guy in about 2 weeks ago wanting 150 A4 readymade frames, but only wanted to spend £2.00 each...............

Depending on what you call cheap, any mountboard is cheap compared to the surface of your cutter

I try for the end of the following week, measure on Saturdays, order Monday for anything out of stock.
Every other week have a standing order of 500 to 750 mounts for one customer, so keep a couple of days set aside for them, and that's not allowing for the interweb orders coming in

Why thank you kind sir

You were lucky, she might have taken offense and walked out, if you called her frames " shabby rubber frames"

philm wrote Just intrigued... why would you say 2-3 weeks to complete the job? Is it because it's a job you don't really want to do or are you that busy that you can't do it quicker? It could be that they are just that busy with so much work on at the moment, could be something to do with the time o...

I just wrap them in brown paper and write the size on

Your first thought is the one I would go with, second one not a good idea, as you would have to space the glass off the watercolour which is what the mount is for anyway.

I would have replaced it with new piece of glass and kept the old one as an example of what happens when the work is up against the glass, kind of a Black Museum, good selling tool.

Framerpicture wrote: I don't think it will be long before this forum creates a (close) competitor for one of the members on here Well I've been in the business for over 23 years, and having worked for different framers and becoming a director of a framing company in that time. I opened my own busin...