The Framers Forum

A simple tool I have been using for years to take the hardened animal glue and brown paper off the backs of old frames is a 5" x 3" piece of 3ml or 4ml glass. Makes a great scraper for free; with the grain to take it back to bare wood.

Wear glass gloves.

Gives a very smooth finish - a little tip from the cabinet making trade.

a slice of glass is also excellent for smoothing down a piece of flat ash moulding - just dont let the health and safety nazis catch your staff doing it

Excellent on ash, oak and any timber that has a reasonably straight grain.

By the vey, our own loyal stormtroopers have everysing under control with respect to zee nanny state infiltrators.

As with most things, will come the day when there will be blitzkrieg strikes on our workshops to make sure we are conforming to centralist regulations.

'til then my free spirit will reign.

Use a used mountcutter/stanley knife blade to scrape/shave dried glue from your underpinner.

the "personna" brand of blades are particularly useful for removing the bits of masking tape adhesive from the back of frames, (after the actual tape has fallen off)

Roboframer wrote:Use a used mountcutter/stanley knife blade to scrape/shave dried glue from your underpinner.

This can be hazardous, especially if you scrape the 'fences' with a blade. Over a few years it will remove enough metal to make a difference.

I prefer to use a damp rag to remove glue from any machine surfaces! It's less expensive than replacing the fences!

Sorry. should have elaborated, just the 'table'.

I use a chisel for the fences.

Damp rags can make rust.

Roboframer wrote: I use a chisel for the fences.

Damp rags can make rust.

I think you are jerking my chain with the "chisel" comment, John.

Damp rags do make rust, but not if you apply a smear of machine oil with a rag afterwards!

osgood wrote:Damp rags do make rust, but not if you apply a smear of machine oil with a rag afterwards!

Old engine oil is cheaper.

But if you're rich then this leaves fewer stains on mouldings and mountboard.

WelshFramer wrote: But if you're rich then this leaves fewer stains on mouldings and mountboard.

That product might be excellent for the job!

I'm not talking about spraying 3000 gallons of machine oil all over the entire workshop here! Just a small amount on a rag then wiped on the machine surfaces on the vee nailer. Haven't had any stains on moulding or matboards in the 22 years I've been doing it!
Strange as it may seem, I have not had the necessity to vee nail any "mountboards"/matboards in the past 22 years either! ;o))