The Framers Forum

We use MDF for ready made frames, but mostly use Art-bak and Foamboard for normal framing. We are currently using up the remains of our original foamboard stock and after this we will re-stock with Art-care foamboard.

Foamboard is also the business for dry-mounting!

Hi Keith,

Check out the Rose & Hollis plain wood mouldings catalogue. They've got three widths of Unstained birds eye maple veenered mouldings. BE225 is the biggest at about 60mm wide.

Anyway I think it's about time someone invented a system that is invisible - not see through or have to look hard - i nvisible . The place I was trained at use panels of "shuttering ply", (very cheap), covered with "blue hessian", (also fairly cheap). Normal brass plated picture...

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Yes I know, I tried to edit it, but everything went wrong!

BTW Liam,

If you are thinking about cutting a lot of these large mouldings, then dust extraction will be an important consideration, especially with the fine dust produced by a fine cross-cut blade.

I use a Nobex Proman 110 when I can't use the Morso. Mine is fixed to a long piece of wood with the Frameco measurement system which I bought from Lion. A particular advantage with the Proman 110 is when cutting down antique frames for customers and you find an old piece of a nail, that the replacem...

I see no one has mentioned the FT glazer's points. These are shorter than the normal framer's points and are cheaper, plus neater to tape over as well. We have three FT guns, the green one (flexitabs) and two black ones. One for framer's points and one for glazer's points. They all work well, but we...

From my own experience, I have noticed that quite a few narrow cushion mouldings are finger-jointed in places- Not a good idea! If you really must frame this in something narrow, a nice solid deep ash hockey moulding could be worth thinking about. Even then, one inch wide probably would be my minimu...

I didn't appreciate that acrylic blocked more UV than clear float! Kev, I've been led to understand that all clear acrylic has an inherent UV blocking characteristic, although it's difficult to get the info to back this up. I always heatseal the open-edition prints which I'm going to put in the sho...

Hi John, A few things which might be worth checking. All of them long shots I afraid, but you never know till you try them. I'm assuming the turret with the blade and the glass cutter would be similar to the system 4000 (if I'm wrong, sorry). There are two screws on the left hand side of the turret,...

Oh, I see. Do you mean that you glass cutter and stanley type blade are not in line with each other?

No - I'm on about the stanley blade cutting 1/16" different to the glass wheel on the same 'head'. No, neither am I. The glass cutter and the blade are both mounted on the bottom head and always cut in the same position. The difference is between the top and bottom heads. The MDF cutting wheel...

Just goes to prove us framers are a great bunch of lateral thinkers. Always find a use for something it was never intended for. Speaking of Lateral thinking. Did you know that you can use your Ademco press for die cutting. It's really easy, I use an old bookbinding press which is smaller. What you ...

Dtto, I've already got a high stool without the back. I don't usually use it to sit on at all!

I have the excalibur and the blade has always cut 1/16" to the left of where the glass wheel scores. I know that and make adjustments on auto pilot, but maybe stuffing an extra blade or two in there, set back of course, may cure it. I'll experiment - thanks. John, There's a bit of a snag I've ...

kev@frames wrote:
The trick must always be to have a full bin

No, the trick is to sit on something wide enough to spread the load - chopping board works every time. These things only happen when I'm not working and I allow myself to drop my guard a little.

They are also quite useful for digging out filler waxes or nail hole filler from their tins and applying to frames. I also use them when I soak off and scrap off backing tape from old frames, or for mixing "Wudfil" which is a two part resin wood filler.

I love the ones on the photo frames page. Really stunning work, Whynot.

Kev, You should ask my staff that one, you don't know the half of it. I have an old plastic kitchen chopping board which I use for cutting things on. Well, a little while ago I discovered that it fits quite nicely on top on the workshop waste bin and is then a good height to sit on while I eat my lu...

The original one was a lot better than this one, you can hardly see the markings, the mercury line is only visible from a very narrow angle and it doesn't fit properly. On balance, I much prefer the old one.

As a rule, I only rarely break things which are easy to replace. Lucky, I think not!