The Framers Forum

Table saw safety is a real big deal and I'm not joking! You can get seriously badly hurt on a table saw. It's one of the most dangerous pieces of machinery in most work working shops. One mistake might be enough to kill you. Have really good look at some of the safety videos of youtube. Most contrac...

I know the problem well! A perfect set up on contractors saw is not really what the scales and angle measurements on a contractor saw are made for. The angle of blade setting according to the markings of the saw are not made to be super accurate, and if you are expecting the fence to super accurate,...

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Henry vacs are great! I have noticed that making sawdust is often a lot easier than making anything useful. Like it, or not, I'm very good at turning useful wood into saw dust, most of us are!

I have a workshop vacuum cleaner which I bought from Agos years ago, it's very noisy and does not have a power take off where you can plug in your power tools to self start the vacuum cleaner when you switch on your power tools. I rarely use it because the noise is normally too much, but a reasonabl...

Yes Jo, I was adding a little bit more information in regard that most people know Frinton only for their hand finished frames only. But they do produce handfinished lengths of moulding as well. I may not have worded it particularly well. I also had no intention cause any annoyance to you and if I h...

So o.k., turning the problem on it's head what's left which is decent quality mouldings, not gold? How badly is this going to hit availability of other nice mouldings other than gold mouldings. We've already heard from one framers not finding this very easy. Who else is struggling to get stock? Are ...

Have you seen the Frinton gallery aka Frinton frames catalogues? They also make hand finished mouldings which they sell by length as well. The quality is great and the prices are not bad either! I bought some chevron samples of some of their more decorative frames from them. I must say that I was ve...

It happens a lot!

I've heard it said that a layer of felt under what you are trying to use under the item being dry mounted can sometimes enable air flow underneath and help to pull a more evenly distruted vacuum. This is supposed to be helpful sometimes!

I like to avoid being to dependant on suppliers having what I need in stock at any particular time. Running around seeing if other suppliers have something which is already out of stock at the usual suppier seems to me to be too often a losing battle. Sitting around waiting foe ages for mouldings to...

I did for a while try some lint free cleaning cloths from Asda and they were quite good , but I sort of drifted back to using dispoable kitchen towel rolls. I don't really know why, I don't think it was a concisous decision, it just happened. For glass cleaner I have a big container of Nilglass and ...

Thanks, that is good to know! I think that I've heard enough to be able know what to expect.
Thanks to All.

It only leaves the outbox, when the other persom open's his, or her's inbox to read the message.

People take time to decide these days.

Are you talking about printing directly onto mountboard? If so the Arqadia 400 series of alpha cellulose mountboard seems absorb colur very easily and with out going all blotchy. Howewer, if you are talking about mounting cheap open edition prints with a significant ongoing collectablity, or importa...

I use disposable kitchen towel roll and every so often, I chuck it into the bin and get another. I seems to work fine for me!

Yes, Propero, I really like Rose and Hollis a lot as well, but Rose and Hollis are not only good from that aspect, these also have quite a lot of quite nice "different" mouldings which have that little bit more extra interest, which I find really helpful. Obeche has those irritating little flects in...

Thanks!

I've got to order various things for in my shop quite soon and was just wondering if I am going to be waiting for days and days, without knowing when my deliveries are going to turn up. Can anyone clue me in, what things are like these days please. I've rather been out of the loop for quite a long t...