The Framers Forum

I make mine using a flat oak moulding with the rabate turned to the rear of the frame and a fillet fixed in the rebate. Most of the convenintly sized flat oak mouldings are not that convenient for underpinning into the edge of the sight edge lip, so I just clamp and cross nail the corner joints with...

Yes, I have the 1200mm / 48 inch ultimat gold. From what I remember, I believe that you are correct in what you are saying' I sometimes cut mounts from normal sized sheets of mountbord cut in half for framing football shirts and I can cut mounts for this using my 1200mm ultimat gold with any problem...

At the time that the Futura was originally introduced Keen cut were offering a conversion kit to upgrade earlier model to the same standard a the Future, but replacing the long cutting bar, cutting head and stops, so the size of mountboard that any given size of Future mountcutter will be the same a...

Ivory is an organic material and the usual thinking of trained conservators in when gluing anything which is organic, to only consider using totally organic based adhesives. Whatever else you may consider, do not use super glue because super glue eats into ivory! These look quite thin and potential ...

It is not usually necessary to dismantle the whole framing gun. If the gun is misfiring, undo the two screws at the front of the gun and clean out and dust a debries. Reassemble this and try it again. If it is still misfiring you need to fit a new hammer blade. Do do this you still do not need to di...

This is what the value of the pound has been doing this year.

https://www.exchangerates.org.uk/GBP-US ... story.html

If you normally have this moulding in stock, it might cost more when you come to reorder it.

Thanks Peter.

Is that all? That's not a lot, when you consider that the headline rate of inflation has usually increased prices more than that!

Thank you Keith, I appeciate all the trouble you went too, to get those comments. I have over the years encountered various different narrow black mouldings and usually the cheaper, or often the most narrow involve a lot more effort to make the finished frame properly presentable. A lot of the narro...

I am considering buying an additional microwave oven and an additional coffee pod machine for down in the shop. I probably with go for some cook in the microwave bags of Uncle Ben's rice, which I already like in certain flavours. Tomato and basil, and spicy mexican are already amoung my favourites. ...

4mm marine ply is far less prone to delaminating and produces very clean cut edges, because each layer of ply is bonded with a very strong waterproof glue. A company which I used to work for got standard sized pieces of marine ply die stamped to the sizes requires for assembling transist equipment c...

The plywood suggestion makes a lot of sense and it is probably worth checking out suppliers who supply plywood for boat building. It's quite a long time since I was involved in designing things produced from thin plywood, hopefully my information still holds true. At the time, there was a readily av...

The sources of my inspiration varies a lot. In recent times, I have needed to move with the times quite a lot. I often need to offer a more contempoary look than I used to do, but very often it is more contempoary with a bit of an added twist. I used to get a lot of my inspiration from travelling th...

Likewise! After a while the little piece of plastic which slides along inside get brittle and the little springy bits break off and you have to buy some new cassesse cartridges. The Alfamacchine universal wedges pull the joins together much better than the cassesse wedges. Also the longer cassesse w...

Sorry 50 prints a mount was a typing error. ! meant to type 50 prints a month!

I doubt if the problem is going to be the blades.

Unfortunately, this happens from time to time with obeche. The machined moulding looks o.k., so it's not a problem which you will know about until you cut into it. I may not be a problem which each length which you buy and also it may not be a problem along the whole length of each length of mouldin...

I see that you are guessing at selling perhaps about 50 prints a mount. You say it's a guess, well it's nearly always a guess anyway, but whatever the amount is going to be, it is usually for there to be good and bad periods throughout the year and most of us at least try to allow for this. Some deg...

I've never used a chop service, but plenty of shops use it routinely. It can make good financial sense for some framers. Not every framing business has room for a fully equiped workshop. It can be a different business model, with a difeerent priciing policy. I don't know anything about pricing your ...

Assuming it is too nackered to repair, even a knackered Morso might be worthwhile breaking and selling bits for spares. I won't sell the whole machine for spare, but since new Morso spares won't be cheap, anything whch you are able to sell should fetch a good price, What ever is left afterwards can ...