Advice sought - rules of thumb - narrow moulding
Posted: Fri 16 Jun, 2006 7:21 am
Hello,
I have a customer who has asked me to frame a couple of prints using a narrow moulding - as narrow as I can get basically! (She doesn't like wide mouldings - and by wide she means anything approaching 20-25mm).
Both items are around 520mm x 390mm in size.
For one of them, she requires a narrow black moulding, the other requires a grey/green moulding.
Item 1 : Double mounted pretty standard stuff.
Item 2 : Effectively triple mounted in terms of depth. This is a double sided print of a map which she wants to pull down from the wall now and again in order to view/read the words on the back side of the map. The front will have a double mount with the back having a two aperture single mount. I intend to use 2mm glass at the front and an acrylic sheet at the back.
Just how narrow a moulding can I safely use here? Any advice gratefully received. I am building up a business - slowly but surely and don't have the experience which many of you will have in abundance.
If using a narrow moulding, is there a need to brace the frame in some way at the back perhaps? (Not for the double sided one though.)
Thanks in advance,
Alan
I have a customer who has asked me to frame a couple of prints using a narrow moulding - as narrow as I can get basically! (She doesn't like wide mouldings - and by wide she means anything approaching 20-25mm).
Both items are around 520mm x 390mm in size.
For one of them, she requires a narrow black moulding, the other requires a grey/green moulding.
Item 1 : Double mounted pretty standard stuff.
Item 2 : Effectively triple mounted in terms of depth. This is a double sided print of a map which she wants to pull down from the wall now and again in order to view/read the words on the back side of the map. The front will have a double mount with the back having a two aperture single mount. I intend to use 2mm glass at the front and an acrylic sheet at the back.
Just how narrow a moulding can I safely use here? Any advice gratefully received. I am building up a business - slowly but surely and don't have the experience which many of you will have in abundance.
If using a narrow moulding, is there a need to brace the frame in some way at the back perhaps? (Not for the double sided one though.)
Thanks in advance,
Alan