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- 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...
- 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,
- 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.
Yes I know this, but I really wanted something with a longer open time to enable me to shape befoe it sets.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Sat 28 Oct, 2023 10:28 am
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: working with thin mouldings
- Replies: 19
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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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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, ...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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!
I hope that you have a good one! Also wishing you all the best for a successful new year!
- 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!
- 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...
- 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...
- Fri 02 Dec, 2022 7:03 pm
- Forum: Help!
- Topic: Struggling to find Vnails/ Wedges for Orteguil Underpinner
- Replies: 1
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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.
- 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...
- 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...