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Jo
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Anyone recognise this?

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Why do customers always want to match something you are pretty sure you haven't seen for years?!! Does anyone happen to recognise this frame? It's 30mm wide. Don't want to spend ages chasing it because they only want an A4 picture framed so it's not exactly a lucrative job!
Thanks in advance.
Graysalchemy

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To be honest I would say its no longer available and put them on to something else. Even if you do manage to find a supplier then by the time you have covered the minimum order value and paid carraige, will it be worth it for a single A4 frame?

Perhaps try looking for something from the supplier that you use that compliments rather than matches it.

Sometimes trying to go the extra mile for your customer just isn't worth it. :D
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The profile is familiar. Rose&Hollis do a plain oak A860 roughly that shape. You just need to stain and polish it and add a bit of gilt to the sight edge.

That's probably easy for me to say as I do it all the time but a bit of a faff for one A4 frame. :? It's one of those
jobs where it would be easier to reframe the original in an available moulding if matching up is required.

Can't think of any ready-finished moulding like that. It looks like solid oak.
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I tried to get him to pick something else, I always do when I don't have the moulding, but it's to match several others so I said I'd have a go. As you say, just not worth having to get something specially for an A4 picture, but thought it may be worth asking about in case someone jumps up and tells me they have half a length of it languishing in their workshop somewhere!
Roboframer

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One of our best sellers

If it's hand-finished it's Simons ash 8 or oak 11.

Arqadia do the same in ash but not oak.
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It isn't hand finished, and is just a stained pine by the looks of it.
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On second glance it is pine. Slightly wire brushed, brown stain with a touch of wax and rottenstone.

R&H do it in pine as well as ash and oak. But even if you did HF it it would be a heck of an achievement to match the other frames.

Just a thought.... R&H do a range of finished mouldings which I haven't got the cat for. Might be worth giving them a ring
to see if they have any.
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Jamesnkr

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email them and they'll send you a pdf of their finished mouldings catalogue.

roseandhollis@aol.co.uk

(or pm me with your email which might be (several days) faster but I think they've a new catalogue out since the one I have)
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