Art In Action 2015

Don’t forget DIYframing will have a stand at Art in Action, Waterperry House, Oxford.  We look forward to meeting up with “old friends” and helping out new customers. To discover more, from the organisers’ website, visit: Art In Action

Essential details:

Opens: Thursday – Sunday, 16-19 July, 10am – 5.30pm each day. Gates open from 9am, refreshments available.

Venue: Waterperry House, Waterperry, Wheatley, OX33 1JZ (transport details etc :  Visit Art In Action)

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Nobex Promaster Kit: Handy Hints Sheets 46 &47

As promised, here are our latest Handy Hints Sheets giving guidance on how to set up, then use, the Nobex Promaster Faming Kit. Both HH sheets are open to all to view.

46 Setting Up a Nobex Promaster Framing Kit

The Nobex Promaster Framing Kit is another of the kit items where the set up notes are unclear.  Here we outline a method with clearer images to help make best use of the kit. Setting up the saw on its mitre block is easy enough, as the supplied diagram is quite clear.   However, how to put together the measure system, attach it to the mitre block and prepare it all for use is quite confusing.  These notes and illustrations will help with the confusion (we hope!). Full HH Sheet 

47 Working With a Nobex Promaster Framing Kit

Once set up, the cutting routine in making a frame is pretty logical. It is important, however, to be clear about the role of each specific element of the X-act system and how they support your cutting routine. And it is absolutely essential to fine tune the scales on the measure system. Full HH Sheet

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Tab Guns - What Are The Options?

The T420 Arrowhead Tab gun uses a professional, framers' rigid point for holding glazing / backing in place - ideal all round gun, but also copes with conservation grade work.  Charnwood does supply rigid points, but the gun can also accommodate the appropriate style of Fletcher points.

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Sports Shirts Framing Re-Visited

The first time we ran our Framing Sports Shirts workshop was on 17th April 2008: that's over 6 years ago.  It was a great success, even with 9 people all working at the same time.  It has never been easy to find detail about how to plan and execute this type of project.  The principles we base our process on is to combine lessons taught in conservation framing, fabric framing and some elements of 3D framing.  We ensure that the shirt is handled carefully, that proper spacing is made away from the glass, the shirt is properly supported and all attachments are discreet and fully reversible.  

Catch Up

Whilst we may have refined the techniques slightly, the core skills would still be recognisable to those who worked in our first session.  For a real flavour of the workshop, read the follow-up article from 2008.

Our next Sports Shirt Framing training day is at our High Wycombe HQ on Monday 14th September. Book now as places are limited.

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Everything For a New Business

If you have just trained with us, or are looking at starting up in framing, we can supply a whole range of framing kits. The aim is to provide a quick route to getting your workspace set up whilst taking account of your budget, background and where you want to go with your projects. We have also been keen not to put in any unnecessary elements that you either have to ferret out or buy but never use. Part of the process has been the twelve years of training people at all levels of framing: it does give us a true picture of what people need.

And with the next suite of Business Development Training Days approaching in November, now is a good time to explore the whole range of kits offered.

Everything You Need - Just 3 Steps

Our full range consists of: six framing equipment kits; 2 options for Fixings and Hardware packs; and 2 options of framing “toolboxes” comprising of the more general workshop items we use with all framing. From these choices it should be possible to find something that will either give you everything you need all in one go or the chance to home in on just the main framing kit. Another feature is that for anyone training with us, we have linked kits with the training you may have undertaken.

ONE: six framing kits:

• Hobby Starter 
• Hobby Starter Plus
• Home Workshop
• Home Workshop Pro
• Business Starter
• Business Pro

 TWO: Fixing & Hardware packs available as:

• a Standard Pack
• a Business Pack

THREE: workshop tools packs available as:

• the Essential Toolbox
• the Pro Toolbox

BIG BONUS: all kit purchases benefit from amazing amounts of DIYframing vouchers to help with future purchases of materials etc. (up to £300.00 in total)

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Discover Our Project Library

Ever needed ideas for framing medals?  Wondered how to create a colour bevel to your mount instead of the white or black cores? And what about V-Grooves: do you need a special cutter or can you create them on a Logan Compact Elite Cutter?

If those are ideas you have wanted to explore, then you probably need to have a look at the Projects Library in our “Support” area of the website.  For every complete project featured, delve into each one further and you will find many more techniques, skills and ideas outlined, often with images and cut-away diagrams to help.  All of these are freely accessible to members, and membership to our site is free.  It is too good to miss. (nb if the links in paragraph 1 don’t work, then you probably need to register).

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