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Not your average framer wrote:
Speaking of snapshots I don't know why, but my snapshot at the start of this thread seems to have vanished.

You should've used UV glass Mark!

I pasted the properties in to my browser and no luck I see you used an image hosting website (Imagevenue) - is your photo still in your account? If not, or even if so, why not just use the 'upload image' feature and get the photos direct from your PC ('My Pictures')?

But hey - that stuff from Prosp and Framemaker - wish I could do that, wish I could SELL that, even if someone else had done it!

Rub it on, rub it off, is my HF limit! Maybe preceded by 'stain it'!

Roboframer wrote:But hey - that stuff from Prosp and Framemaker - wish I could do that, wish I could SELL that, even if someone else had done it!

Rub it on, rub it off, is my HF limit! Maybe preceded by 'stain it'!

Hi John,

Some finishes are really easy and the range of really good H/F materials is getting ready good these days. I think you're a natural candidate for moving into hand finishing, as you are already doing a lot of your own creative stuff. It might be your logical next move!

Not your average framer wrote:Speaking of snapshots I don't know why, but my snapshot at the start of this thread seems to have vanished.

This is easily avoided by uploading the image when you post rather than refering to an external URL.

Thanks for the positive comments on my frame
I like bronze powder finishes Prospero, some customers struggle to tell the difference between gold leaf, metal leaf, bronze powder and paint anyway, so I often find if I quote them £35 a foot in leaf and they suddenly turn very pale I offer them an alternative in bronze at say £20 a foot they will go for the latter.

Especially on very antiqued finishes, it seems a crime to go through all that preparation and then to remove the gold leaf with wire wool and cover it in layers or washes and rottenstone. Sometimes I find the subtler look of BP much more appealing. Over a year we still do more gold leaf frames than anything else so there is still a strong market for this work, but sometimes I do like using BP as it is so much quicker.

Not your average framer wrote:
Mmm, That's an interesting thought! I don't know how you would go about doing it

Not my idea but something Martin from Lion suggested a while ago, and again at the Spring Fair.... watch this space, hopefully it will develop further.

I wonder if Martin Harrold would host a Hand Finishing event in Brum or London? I realise its not ideal for those of you in the far western extremities but being so widely spread there will never be an ideal location.

I for one would be willing to travel and pay a reasonable fee for a good guest demostrator and I am sure Lion would benefit from sales of materials.

John.

I’m not sure if hand finishing is a route I want to take…

However that said…………… if there was a well structured training secession on hand finishing been conduct some place I would be willing to travel…

By attending a good training secession I would be in a better place to make an informed decision about my own direction with hand finishing………..

My suggestion is that the training should be broken down into two secessions perhaps on two successive days… or a morning and afternoon program…

Secession 1: Introduction and the basics (for the novice)

Secession 2: Advanced (for attendees of the first secession and those with some knowledge already)

Personally Birmingham would work great, there is an Aerlingus flight early in the morning to Birmingham and the return flight in the evening is late enough to allow for two full day secessions…

So count me in if this training is organised…

Got any finished moulding you like the shape of, but the finish is a bit bilious

Bought synthetic product on left - apply steel wool and paint and elbow grease - entirely different feel to the design