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I bought a new number 14 made from Welsh slate, and thought how can I enhance this by using some mouldings

Thanks to the creative genius of IESTIN PENRI at WELSH FRAMING SUPPLIES...
I now have a flash new number 14 - that demonstrates new uses for mouldings

Then I had the thought - have any of you done jobs - nothing to do with framing - but which needs mouldings

Then post them here please.

( IESTIN ? It's pronounced YESTIN )

is that going outside your door?

be interested to see how long the moulding lasts!

That is everything to do with framing, framing a slate. I hope conservation methods were used.

Did a similar job for a customer last year, his number was on a ceramic tile. Used a Polecore frame but made it clear that we were giving no guarantees about its longevity outdoors.

We've got an outdoor porch partly made from frame mouldings - been good for about 12 years so far, mind you I did creosote them.

I made a FOR SALE sign board for the last property I sold out of correx and stuck a polcore moulding on it to neaten it up, which was outside for at least six months and was absolutley fine.

It stood up well to every element known to man including snow and frost! It would probably have lasted forever, but fortunately I got a sale before It's durablility was tested to the extreme

Now come on Keith.... That is a frame. If you had made a bicycle or something I might be impressed.

½" white Hogarth makes great bean-sticks. And at the end of the year all the gesso has dropped off and you can use it as unfinished moulding.

stcstc wrote:is that going outside your door?

be interested to see how long the moulding lasts!

Yes it is....I planned to give it a couple of coats of clear varnish at weekend.

But now having read the other posts will just put it up and see how long it lasts

If it does fall apart at least then I can change the mouldings

I chucked a frame out in the garden one day. It was a nice frame - hand-finshed with water-gilded sections. But it had woodworm After about two years in the hedge-bottom I dragged it out. All the gesso had come off. I noticed that two of the rails were free of worm, so I chopped it into a 10x8" and refinished it. (After drying it out and scraping all the moss off and giving it a good going-over with fungicide wash).
It made a nice (smaller) frame.

I have made outdoor frames for pub smoking shelters and outdoor canvases as well.

Also use picture frame moulding to make a box/tray once with matching lid.

That reminded me - mount board caddy

I used some unfinished moulding to replace a uPVC door frame.
Cut them on the morso, then had to trim them at an angle because the opening wasn't square.

My underpinner stand is made of picture moulding, if I get a chance I'll post a pic.

The middle section is all picture moulding.

A better picture showing the 3 mouldings used

The inner 2 are Aluminium Look Alike - silver.
and the outer is Black with silver lip..

Made from ECO friendly Durian wood in Ipoh, Malaysia and supplied from our Belgian depot to distributors in Europe.
http://www.ecmouldings.eu

Hey Keith, is that a door entry phone system next to the house number

Steve N wrote:Hey Keith, is that a door entry phone system next to the house number

Obviously not read my new signature

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I had a 4ft length of 4" mahogany moulding from Magnolia Mouldings left over from a commission, long after The Magnolia Group disappeared I had a request to make a Championship Trophy for best of Breed for an Agricultural Livestock Society, the length of moulding, about £5 /m in 1980 made a superb plinth with a flat mahogany band for the silver engraved plates to be fixed on. No chance that I will be around to supply the second matching tier if the Breed society survives that long or it could be .

If one delves into the depths of horizontal framing with bases and plinths, then this would be a rich area to explore framing the unusual .

To pick one; A table center for a buffet, to hold an ice-mound for the display of shellfish. The internal part of the frame was a glass construction using silicone sealer that allowed for the separation of an ice freezing mixture to reduce the temperature of the surface ice.

132400000 from Arqadia, laid flat on its back and cut so there is no hole in the middle, makes a good coaster with a small lip to prevent your cup slipping off.

155400000 was used to make a small fort for my children to play with their toy soldiers.

A45 from Rose and Hollis made pontoons, also to be used with Airfix tanks, planes and boats.

And we also used moulding to make stock boxes for model railway engines and coaches.

Makes us wonder when we have time to actually make picture frames with it!

I found a use for my box of chippings. Usually I burn them but as the weather has been so nice I decided to tart up the garden a bit.