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by Not your average framer
Mon 30 Oct, 2023 5:45 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Swept Frames.
Replies: 16
Views: 27445

Re: Swept Frames.

WOW, I've never even heard about this punk art thing. Do much do these punk art swept frames need to look like the really traditional frames? Maybe, you might be able to make something which is adequate for your own market. Perhaps even using some of your left over bits of moulding, isn't the punk t...
by Not your average framer
Mon 30 Oct, 2023 4:57 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Swept Frames.
Replies: 16
Views: 27445

Re: Swept Frames.

It has not very worthwhile for at least 10 years. Frinton Gallery still do them to order,
by Not your average framer
Mon 30 Oct, 2023 3:52 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Thick repair wax
Replies: 8
Views: 7822

Re: Thick repair wax

Thanks Jerome,

Yes I know this, but I really wanted something with a longer open time to enable me to shape befoe it sets.
by Not your average framer
Mon 30 Oct, 2023 10:58 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Thick repair wax
Replies: 8
Views: 7822

Thick repair wax

I used to buy a really thick repair wax some years ago, which set to a very hard durable finish. It's no longer obtainable anymore. I no longer have any, I am being sounded out to do some repair work for a couple of previously regular customers in the interior design business, so I need a way of thi...
by Not your average framer
Sun 29 Oct, 2023 8:17 am
Forum: Business Matters
Topic: Moulding chevron sample sizes
Replies: 5
Views: 7924

Re: Moulding chevron sample sizes

Are you open again Mark? I have been getting the inside of my shop sorted out, but I can hardly walkand need to walk with a four pronged stick, I have problems with my balance when standing up. My accountant has given me a deadline of the end of november to get my accounts sorted and I need to conc...
by Not your average framer
Sat 28 Oct, 2023 12:37 pm
Forum: Business Matters
Topic: Moulding chevron sample sizes
Replies: 5
Views: 7924

Moulding chevron sample sizes

I have recently been making some new moulding samples, to be honest the old ones are no longer looking as good as they once did and are propably no longer fit for purpose. I've not made many so far, but the outside dimension of each side has been chosen to be 230mm long, (almost 9 inches) which is s...
by Not your average framer
Sat 28 Oct, 2023 10:28 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: working with thin mouldings
Replies: 19
Views: 59825

Re: working with thin mouldings

I have never been happy about fixing D rings to backing boards. Backing boards don't not remain stable supporting any significant load over time, when the load is supported in that way. O.K. screwing D rings into adequate strengh sub frames, even into adequate strength frames - no problem! A small s...
by Not your average framer
Mon 23 Oct, 2023 11:45 am
Forum: Adverts/Sales/Wants
Topic: Unidentified underpinner
Replies: 1
Views: 1618

Re: Unidentified underpinner

That looks like it could be a Gieli machine, made in italy. They always used to the suppoerted with spares by Wessex pictures. They have a reputation as very solid and good machines.
by Not your average framer
Mon 23 Oct, 2023 11:33 am
Forum: Adverts/Sales/Wants
Topic: Cassese Underpinner Parts
Replies: 5
Views: 2290

Re: Cassese Underpinner Parts

Two tips. I stopped using the 12mm and 15mm Cassesse wedges long ago, because the horizontal crease which they have pressed into the wedge quite often causes jams and this means that I have strip down the machine to un-jam it. I now re-load the empty wedge magazines, which seem to work better than t...
by Not your average framer
Sat 21 Oct, 2023 12:31 pm
Forum: Adverts/Sales/Wants
Topic: Cassese Underpinner Parts
Replies: 5
Views: 2290

Re: Cassese Underpinner Parts

There are many cassesse manual under pinner which all use the same pattern of hammer. Older models which are no longer current, are difficult to sell, so they are mostly only useful for spares. Quite a lot of the well worn out earlier models get part exchanged and sold on through the trade and get b...
by Not your average framer
Fri 20 Oct, 2023 10:17 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Ready made backs
Replies: 4
Views: 3491

Re: Ready made backs

Most of my stock of ready made frames have those brass plated slip-over hangers slip on the edge of the backing board, they do look a lot nicer than the standard black slip-over hanger. When I last needed to buy them, I could not get them in smaller quantities, so had to buy a bag of 1,000 hangers, ...
by Not your average framer
Thu 19 Oct, 2023 7:39 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Framers triangle points!
Replies: 8
Views: 15189

Re: Framers triangle points!

Are they the larger 13mm triangle points, for the old Kaha point guns. I've got some, but I need to look for them, because I don't know where they are. They come in a thin metal sleeve, and you withdraw the sleeve after the points are in the gun. The 13mm points are to large to for other guns point ...
by Not your average framer
Wed 11 Jan, 2023 2:45 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Underpinner advice please?
Replies: 14
Views: 3629

Re: Underpinner advice please?

I have a CS-88 and before that I used a CS-79. They are both essentially the same internal mechanism and I have joined oak on both. There is a very definite difference in performance between a pneumatic and a manual underpinner, when it comes to joining oak, but it is worth bearing in mind that both...
by Not your average framer
Thu 22 Dec, 2022 10:42 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Merry Christmas
Replies: 2
Views: 2183

Re: Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Jan and Pete,

I hope that you have a good one! Also wishing you all the best for a successful new year!
by Not your average framer
Thu 22 Dec, 2022 10:33 am
Forum: After Hours
Topic: Merry Christmas to all.
Replies: 1
Views: 1985

Merry Christmas to all.

Merry Christmas folks. Wishing you all a successful new year!
by Not your average framer
Mon 12 Dec, 2022 9:24 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: New to the forum
Replies: 3
Views: 2610

Re: New to the forum

Hi Chhow and welcome to the forum, You will find that some things are a little different between framers in the U.K. and the U.S. For exammple the common technique for backing frames in the U.K. is to use a backing board, where as in the U.S., the backing on frames is usually a paper dust cover. How...
by Not your average framer
Sat 03 Dec, 2022 7:31 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Chevron display
Replies: 12
Views: 6992

Re: Chevron display

This post has been edited by a Moderator to keep it focussed on topic Hi Megan, This is not necessarily cheaper, but before I needed to move premises, I bought some of those long slotted metal strips and springy snap in hooks from Lion, which I think makes it easier to always have my sample cherons...
by Not your average framer
Fri 02 Dec, 2022 7:03 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Struggling to find Vnails/ Wedges for Orteguil Underpinner
Replies: 1
Views: 1095

Re: Struggling to find Vnails/ Wedges for Orteguil Underpinner

Wessex always used to be the main UK supplier for Gielle underpinners and I presume that the still are. A\s your chart of compateable wedges includes Gielli, it might be worth checking out whether Wessex still supply Gielli wedges. Hopefully they still do.
by Not your average framer
Mon 21 Nov, 2022 10:23 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Inserting Images into a Sale
Replies: 8
Views: 2450

Re: Inserting Images into a Sale

If your computer has the Windows operating system, it probably includes a free program called Paint. This program has some basic image manipulation tools included as part of it's facilities and this includes an image rotation option. It's all pretty basic and therefore does not require any specialis...
by Not your average framer
Wed 16 Nov, 2022 6:41 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Deep Box frames
Replies: 6
Views: 1593

Deep Box frames

I usually like to make my better quality box frames using Simons moulding 000K/0114. The wood grain shows nicely through the paint and looks quite classy. I sometime make up cheaper box frames by converting ready made frames which have been hanging around too long without selling, by adding a simple...