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Here's a frame we did up which incorporated the use of LED lights. Its overall size is 1100 x 800mm,using NR Glass. It is on display in a doctor's surgery waiting room.....the instruments were used by the doctor's father who had was a GP back in the 1880's / 1890's. The stetascope on the left and the large syringe are secured with ss wire , the centre ear inspection kit is held in place with a clear perspex sheet and posts so that the box can remain open, and we also used a perspex strip to retain part of the blood pressure instrument on the right. The frame is secured on the wall with a french cleat and the power cable is fed thru the wall behind.

looks very good
only thing i would say is the text in the title box on the right seems to be a bit crammed in

The "blood pressure instrument" is a sphygmomanometer.

Just one of those words that once learned you never forget!

I call mine an Omron

I have thought about doing this many times, but never got past thought. Looks excellent .

Takes too long to open here, but I saw it on TFG while I wuz waiting. Impressive!

Thought I'd refresh the page and time how long it took to see the photo in the first post, one minute, give or take. (Wndows 7/IE - tons of free space)

Whenever I remember, for attachments here, I reduce to 600x400-ish pixels and save 'as'.

Nice job where did you get the lights from and have you pictures of the assembly of the lights?
Regards
Dave e

I did take some photos of the light assembly ...Ill have to go dig out. Ill put up here when I locate it.

Nice looking job, well done, good layout.


less than 5 seconds for the page and image to load, no problem here

Roboframer wrote:Thought I'd refresh the page and time how long it took to see the photo in the first post, one minute, give or take. (Wndows 7/IE - tons of free space)

Whenever I remember, for attachments here, I reduce to 600x400-ish pixels and save 'as'.

Have you tried clearing your cache
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I just came across some pics I had taken when we were putting this frame together. We used 2 different LED arrays, which we had at hand.
You,ll see a long flexible set across the top - this is like a rubber rope , containing the string of LED's - these gave a bright light.
The other consisted of a set of four rigid strips , wiring from mini junction box - these 4 strips were placed adjacent to the main openings to give additional light. They gave a much warmer light. All were affixed with plastic cable ties.

Thanks for posting up the pictures thats a great job where did you get the lights from are they special lights they dont get hot?
Thanks
Dave

We get the lights from our local wholesale electrical supplier. We just did a job today where we used one of these "rubber strips" LED array....bought for Euro 24. As this particular one is for a promotion photoshoot that may be outdoors - we temporarily installed a small 12v battery within the frame with an on / off switch thru backboard.....when we get it back we'll replace the battery with a mains - 12volt Power supply unit. We have also got the rigid strip LED lights from local supplier....and IKEA have some also.
As the lighting is LED (light emitting diode) , there is no heat. Using a solid state power supply (switched power supply) instead of a conventional type power supply, containing a transformer ensures that there is minimal heat from the power supply. They are also very small, as the power required to power the LED's is very small.

Thanks for the info have wanted to make a frame with light options for a while now just never got around to doing it and finding the materials,
Dave

That really is a fabulous job. Are you happy to say how much you charged for this piece?

Daisy

Well impressed
Nice layout
Always interesting to know which moulding and mat board you used

Love it! Again, as others here have said, thought about it and did nothing. Well done.

Just to follow up on a couple of questions posed in previous posts.

We charged Euro 950 for that job.
The mount used was Colormount Putty 3983 while the moulding was one of our deep "specials"........We had some mouldings and corresponding deep slips made up at our local timber yard from poplar, which we typically paint either black / mahogony / cream depending on the job. When joining these deep moulding frames , we glue and hold in a band clamp overnight....then underpin. We keep these in stock to use on those extra deep framing jobs that need to sit flush on a wall.
Im attaching a photo here of a couple of these mouldings...one is 75mm , other is 95mm overall height x 20mm wide .
In this case, with a rebate width of 90mm....the stack up was
2mm Art Glass N/R
Mount 1.4mm
70mm Spacer
6mm MDF Backing
9mm MDF French Cleat ( concealed cleat hung on corresponding cleat mounted on wall)

We did up another LED lit framing job a few weeks ago. We will be attending a trade stand in September at our national "ploughing competition" in September , so we did up this frame for a launch / press release last week. Overall it depicts an overview / history of this competition since it began 81 years ago......consists of 2 x A4 text sheets / 1 photo of "horse" ploughing along with an old horse shoe and an old point of a plough. ( These were heavily rusted so we had them shot-blasted and powder-coated with a transparent sealing layer.)
We plan on having it on display at our stand during the 3 days of the competition
This one was more straightforward, as we had only to use one of the light strings. I have attached a few photos to show the layout.

Overall , the job consists of
1> Deep rebate wood frame
2>NR Glass
3>Mat / Mount with photo & text panels attached
4> 1/4" - 6mm slip of 2" depth ( slip used is painted black , but could be raw or anything else of this depth to give support / spacing to match the depth of the 2 cove boxes containing objects. )
5> MDF Backboard with 2 cove boxes (2" deep) , positioned to align with mat / mount openings , glued on to backboard with PVA ( the cove boxes are substantially larger than the corresponding mat / mount openings so that the lighting remains concealed.

6>LED lighting string with 12v power supply.....all attached with cable ties.
Many Thanks
Tom