The Framers Forum

Customer comes in and produces a pencil drawing he'd done - lays it out facing him; upside down to me - as it should be.

I offer up samples - mounts and frames and it's the same old "does it have to be that wide - does the frame have to be that heavy' - he wants about an inch wide mount and the tiniest frame I have - and the picture is about 24x20".

I said - "Well - it's a gorilla" (I was sure it was a gorilla or an ape - defnite 'M' hairline - deeply wrinkled brow - deeply wrinkled everything! Squat nose, large flared nostrils) "It warrants something quite meaty and some space"

It wasn't a gorilla - it was a very old woman!

It wasnt his gran was it oh dear

Last Crimbo I framed three very arty pics of a girl posing in red underwear. All beautifully photographed and lit, nothing sleazy....... All in the Best Possible Taste. Spent a while with the customer designing the frame.....Settled on a triple window plain white mount and a polished ash black over red HF frame with red undertones and a soft silver sight edge. Looked really classy.

It wasn't until she came to pick up the frame that I realised she was the girl in the photos.


Every think you have been in this job just a bit too long?

I suppose she looked a little different fully clothed! You probably didn't look at her face in the photos!