The Framers Forum

Well......It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas Ev'rywhere you go; Take a look in the five-and-ten, glistening once again With candy canes and silver lanes aglow. ...

Fingers crossed I'll be awash with football shirts again this year

Ok , I ordered some Pozi screws from LION, they are the STEEL ZP PAN-HEAD POZI - '4' x 13mm/1/2"" and STEEL ZP PAN-HEAD POZI - '6' x 19mm/3/4"" I bought a set of Titanium Coated Combi screwdriver bits from WICKES, it has the following heads; - PZtype No.1, No.2 and No.3 Now will ...

Well, you learn something new every day ( 25 years )

Thanks for your thoughts everyone : )

Bagpuss

Come on everyone, a quick straw poll...
Flat head screws or Phillips, what do you use ?

I use flat head but after 25 years of fastening D-rings on the back of frames I'm starting to ask myself why I don't use Phillips screws ...

Genuinely interested,
Bagpuss

I've now got shed envy .......

Hi, have you got a photo you could post ? Have always thought about getting one, why are you selling ?
Cheers,
Adam

Hi David, hope you are keeping well. These look in very good condition, I had the 8 sided Nielsen a couple of years ago, great for getting a lot of chevrons on display if you havent got a lot of floor space
See you at the Guild BBQ on the 22nd David ?
Cheers,
Adam TPF

Hi, much to my embarrassment, I have never framed football boots ... there, I said it, so embarrassing. :oops: Below is a photo of the mount and how I need them displayed ( signatures on show ), I'm creating a shadow box but need to attach boots to a back board, I was thinking perhaps through the la...

Are there any digital camera enhusiasts out there ? Years ago I setup a Canon Powershot on the ceiling and linked it with a cable to my laptop, the Canon software allowed me to zoom in with the lens and take pictures whilst viewing the picture on screen, great idea but bit messy with trailing cables...

Hi, I have a textile coming in soon (see below), the customer doesn't want it in a frame, under glass, she would like it displayed on the wall, attached to a frame of some description. Has anyone done anyone like this before ? I can't treat it as a canvas and stretch it around stretcher bars.. shoul...

Joe really is a top bloke, he's helped me out many a time over the years

Hadn't seen this posting before Christmas, I just discovered today that neither LION or D.J. Simons will be there, what a shame,
I'll be there though, I'm visiting a friend that weekend in Sutton Coldfield so thought I'd pop in and have a mooch round, it gets me out of the house ...

Forgot to mention, my great great grandfather was Keeper of The Keys at the Tower of London

I had a customer call today to say he had ordered a ceramic poppy from the Tower of London display. He asked if I could do a 3 sided glass box/frame, I'm going to try and talk him out of this idea, I was wondering if anyone else had been approached about one of these poppies ?

Offset the whole cost of the car? :shock: Maybe I need to stick a business card in the window and get back on to my accountant. I bought this car 2 years ago and I thought then that my logo would look good on the wide flat doors, not too sure why I left it so long though, it's a funny looking littl...

I can't believe it's taken me quite so long but I finally pulled my finger out, got in touch with a local car graphics company and today picked up my little Toyota with my logo on it, it's not perfect but it's a great first attempt :clap: It's all vinyl cut and I was amazed at the detail on the logo...

I have just done a search in the forum about mounting cigarette cards, couldn't quite find what I wanted, hence this post. I don't frame a lot of cigarette cards but recently I have had a few. Cutting the mount is not a problem with the CMC but the customer wants to see the reverse of the 50 cards i...

Oh and the customer found my Facebook page and posted the photo to it with some nice comments and 7 of her friends who I don't know Liked my page : ) I set the Facebook page up a few months ago and didn't tell my customers about it ?!! NOTE TO SELF - e-mail all your customers and get them to look at...

Well I finally finished it off and although it was a bit of a pain to do and probably under priced, I'm quite pleased with it ( see below ). I decided against a foamcore cove box, I actually built a wooden tray for the 2 clay plates, I threaded wire through the plate hangers already on the plates, t...

Thanks ever so much for all your thoughts on this, there seems to be quite a number of options doesn't there ? I do like the idea of making use of the sticky plate hanger on the back of the plates and I do want to get some of this super sticky double sided Foam sticky tape ? WHERE CAN I GET THIS ? I...