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I was a Police Officer for 30 years and when I retired in 2005 I needed to mentally adjust so I took up watercolour painting. I soon became interested in framing and went on a weekend course in Telford. I learned enough to get me hooked and spent about £1000 on equipment none of which I use now. The...

I was thinking that with oil paint it would be best without glass dependant on the quality of the paper it’s been painted on. Often oil paintings are not best displayed or viewed behind glass as something can be lost in the texture etc of the finished painting. However I bow to better experience and...

Obviously no glass on this framing project so it very much depends on the quality of the paper upon which the oil paint has been applied. How flat is the finished painting? I’m not quite seeing how the hedgehog method will work where there will be no mount or backing mount showing?. You can’t have b...

Can you post the pictures?

Do you mean 1350?

I think you misunderstood I don’t intend to glue or stick anything. I will be framing the pieces as they are and using 2.5mm MDF as a backing board instead of the corri cor I normally use.

Thanks for this information Mark. The boards are fairly thin about 2mm so maybe using a 2.5 mm MDF backing board will hold them in flatter. They aren’t massively concave and still relatively pliable but all points noted with thanks.

That’s great many thanks

I have a customer whose father was a prolific oil painter. His father died last year and he has a number of paintings that he wants to get framed. The value of these is not in the artwork as such but hugely sentimental. Problem is a large number of the pieces are on thin board which has bowed/warped...

Also looks a bit like the Portobello range from Lion? They do various colours of this and the black/gold flea market style is very popular. Regards.

All en route

I should have explained that it is simply an empty tube with strong paper taped to it. You place the poster onto the paper and start to roll. You can leave it for as long as you need to flatten it out.

I’m probably last to the party again but I thought I would share a great way I discovered on YouTube to safely reverse roll posters to flatten them out prior to hinging. I used this to great effect recently with a series of Metallica posters that were quite valuable apparently and the customer did n...

Hi Andy. There are many suppliers around and over time you will no doubt build a good relationship with your preferred ones. For me I use Lion mostly as their customer service and delivery times are first class. I’m based in Scotland and can order from Lion at lunchtime one day and get the delivery ...

Received today in good order. many thanks.

Received today in good order. Many thanks.

Thanks Mark. Quite fascinating to see old posts covering issues that never go away, they simply modernise. I mainly use cord of varying thicknesses but amongst my customers I have many of the surrounding ‘big hooses’ as we call them including the Gleneagles Estate and Gleneagles Hotel. I’m often ask...

Hi. Can you send me payment details please? My address is 20 Latch Burn Wynd, Dunning, Perthshire. PH2 0SP. Thanks

Could use the fletcher multi points if you’re willing to sell separately?

Welcome Andy. I started out just over three years ago after a weekend (very basic) course in Telford. You will get a lot of help and advice from the experienced framers (you’ll find out who they are) on this forum. They are very generous with their time and from what I have seen there is no such thi...