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I’m used to framing with oak.... not framing oak!

The oak shingle is handmade and was part of a project to build a castle in France using the same techniques and materials used in the Middle Ages.

I’ve mounted the shingle with formed rods and used mountboard covered obeche spacers with a painted & black waxed obeche moulding.

David, that is a great item, and I love the frame especially.
I'm not sure why there's a mount around the oak though, and chance you can talk me through it.
If I have a window mount on an object, it's usually to hide spacers, but here it seems purely decorative, perhaps to allow the window for the title box?

Hi Pramsay13,

Yes, it’s because of the title box.

I’ve not mounted that many jobs with formed rods and find it a bit fiddly.... very tricky to get the object lined up. I ended up mounting the oak shingle on an oversize board that I could then cut down with everything squared up. My original intention was to have the title box in the same piece of mountboard as the oak shingle but once it was mounted I couldn’t cut the title box so hence the window mount

I often find jobs evolve into something different from the original idea/design for one reason or another

I like the stained frame with the sanded sight edges

Makes all the difference to it.

Yes, I also agree with Allistair. Such a nice handfinished result and tastefully executed!

The red paint and the black wax looks great! I often do the black wax thing myself and it works really well with many other colours too!

This is an exellent example for those who are considering trying their hand at handfinishing.