The Framers Forum

I'm in total agreement Dermot. It's like its not a real qualification so much as a club - stop paying the fees and your qualification is nearly useless to you. :head: I agree with both of you, but it' funny that on the Guild website about the GCF and what it can do for you, it does not say you have...

Well, I wasn’t going to answer this because I sometime I feel apathetic, and very undecided, but I have, now should I press the submit button……….. what do you think?

Hi danchips1 All of the above are great advice, I would add have a look at some books about framing, one I would recommend is by Pete Bingham, Picture Framing a practical guide to all aspects of art and the craft pretty long title but a good read, I forget where I got it from ( sure other members wi...

Very nice Framemaker,
Can't wait to get my hands on some of them,-I just tried to order 8 of the Liquid Metals, and five of them are out of stock, knew I shouldn't of waited

Steve N

Hi John, Yeah, you are right about treating them special, I spent about two and half hours with the guy from Northampton, it' was his first time having anything framed, walking him through the process of how and why to do things the right way. I have some enquires about ornate and swept frames again...

Hi JGF's It's hard for me to notice a difference, since I only open my new business in November last year, but the trend seems to for Black , White, Box frames, Wide Scoops and now Black aluminium, Hand Painted ( Black or White). Since I opened I only have used one brown with a gold sight edge, a fe...

Bravo John, Bravo

Steve

Thanks Guys, I will have to take into account all the good points you have raised, and it will be reflected in the quote, I was thinking along the lines of aluminium frames, not sure about the glazing, but the safety membrane on the inside surface of the glass is a good idea ( thanks NYF), as you sa...

Hi all, I just had a customer come in, he has a friend who would like to hold an photo exhibition at a local hospital, the hospital has said that all the framing must be fire retardant, also the prints must be fire retardant as well :shock: . As the customer's friend is only a hobbyist, I don't thin...

Count me in on Monday, I still get a buzz from the show after nearly 20 years of attending it

Steve N

Hi Moglet, What happens sometime is the outer edge of the work/tissue starts to stick before the centre of the work, so the tissue will move and wrinkle, so you need to stop the outer edges sticking first, give this a try. Starting from the bottom up foam blanket, then then the backing, tissue, work...

Hi Moglet, First may I say welcome back, and thanks for the kind words, ground floor is about 600 sqft and upstairs (being used as storage and office) is about 400sqft, sounds a lot but the upstairs has a kitchen area and has slopping roof ( keep hitting the old head ) will try to post some photos o...

Hi Adrian, Thanks for the comments, once I had done the same as you, painted the place, I cleared the place and marked out on the floor with chalk where everything would go, then had a good walk around to see if it would work and holding my hands out as if carrying a sheet of glass, easier to reloca...

Hi Fellow JGF's Just wondering how you guys deal with cold telephone callers, as a new business I keep getting phone calls wanting me to change my power supplier, phone supplier or to take out advertising, some of these advertising calls say they are from certain organisations, when they are not IE ...

Hi John We in much the same position myself, in a light industrial area in Bath,we only opened in November last year, so what we did was to do a leaflet drop in the surrounding area before Christmas offering 10% off custom framing if they brought the leaflet in when placing the order. Also a lot of ...

Mine is 1984- it's done about 23 miles, as far as I know, distance from where I bought it to my workshop

Steve

I've had 1, from my accountant !!

Steve N

Hi Bagpuss, Having just opened my own workshop, after working for other people for the last 20 years, I wanted to use a pricing program, after looking at most of them, I went for PFP. It is has very complex program running in the background, but the frontend is very simple, just enter the image size...

Many thanks Kev

Steve

Hi JGF's
Here are som photos of my new workshop, been open for weeks now, http://picasaweb.google.com/snichols33/Workshop#

Steve N