The Framers Forum

Hi Guys, Hugh, yes you are right about deep mouldings, but I suppose that they make them to the max size to be cut and joined by equipment that most framers have. Áine, I get my Black foamcore from Lion, never had a problem with the surface paper coming off. John, I cut these with an hacksaw, as you...

Hi Ormond, You can buy the 10mm angle in B&Q in 1 & 2 metre lengths, they were cut to size and just stuck on to the edges of the frame. The foamcore dose not come into contact with the shirts in any way, have a look at the drawing below, hope it explains the construction, should have posted ...

Hi Áine,
No fixings as the design is to stand, so I think they are not frames anymore, but display cases oops! I'm in the wrong forum!

Steve

Almost forgot, Happy New Year to all the members of this great forum

Thanks for the feedback, the perlongs were no problem, and the customer has not seen them yet! I finshed them on Thursday before Christmas and gave him a ring, told him they were ready and we would be closing at 12noon on Saturday the 22nd, he hasn't been in, mind you we are closed until Wed 2nd, so...

Hi Guys. Just thought I would update you on the Spatial framing for the two tee-shirts, as you might remember, my customer wanted to see both sides of the shirts, I asked you for ideals, well at long last I have got around to making them. I wanted to make them look like flight cases, as it would giv...

Hi Áine I'm not sure what thickness of film we use (not my dept, ) :D but we get it from Sontex, they came to give us a demo and to see what what we wanted to us the machine for, and we went along with their recommendations. we also use cardboard corners as NYAF suggest, in fact we use them on all f...

Hi Mark, We got a machine from a company we saw at the spring fair about 10 years ago, Sontex (Machinery ) Ltd tel 01247 872299 we can shrinkwrap frames up about 50x70 depending on the width of the moulding, we also use it to shrink mounted prints for our artist customers when they are attending art...

Hi FYG If you are painting your own canvas with oils, as you know they take a long time to dry and cure. If you frame them when they are wet, if at any time the frame needs to be taken off, you could find that the frame is stuck to the painting. You can line the rebate of the frame with tape to stop...

Hi Guys The only Limited Edition Prints we see rise in value are the likes of Bansky, which sell for a lot on Ebay. We have customers coming in with a print that they have had for a while and say "This is worth £7,000, seen it sell on Ebay, only paid £80.00 two years ago" Little do they re...

Ha Ha Mark,

Steve N

My favorite customer came in for a mount only with a knotted piece of elastic !

Steve N

Hi Guys, We do printing on Epson 40 inch wide printer ( dont ask me the model no) as to colour management, you can have the best system set up, but it's really down to the customer, if they do not have any colour management i.e. calibrated monitor, you can still get unpredictable results, with the c...

Hi Aine
I knew you would like it, have you got the sound turned up

regards

Steve

Hi Dave,
I agree with Realhotglass, use UV glass to be on the safe side.

Steve

We have employed a new glass cleaner http://home.tiscali.dk/ulrich/screencleaner.swf
It's also very good at cleaning computer moniters

Steve N

Hi Deeppictureman, What you need to do is cut 4 bits of mounts to total size of the finshed glass size. Starting from the bottom of the pile is a ( A )mount that has no windows ( this is the backing) next mount ( B ) up cut two windows, one for the LP and the other for the sleeve, BUT the size of th...

Hi Guys,
I get my wife and Jane my business partner to have a look in charity shops and junk shops for old velvet curtains, you can get them cheap and you can store them for future jobs.

Steve N

[quote="prospero"]I would be inclined to sew the flag to a larger piece of suitable fabric and put the whole thing on canvas stretcher bars. This would make it lighter and more stable. Never actually done this btw. :oops: But I think the principle is sound... Hi Lynn This is the same way t...

Thanks chaps,
I Thought it was, not going to touch it! thanks for quick reponse

Steve

Hi guys. Had a guy email wanting a price for 60 ready made 60x90cm frames, gave him a price of from £30.00 depending on the frame, or from £40.00 if he wants us to put the pictures in.He then rings me to say he has sent a email to say he wants 70 now and at £40.00, very bad line and hes is forign, c...