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13th March 2018, 09:41 PM #1GOLD MEMBER
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Been posting a lot of questions here but thought I would post what I spent my long weekend doing - picture frames. I make these for myself, I enter art shows (cause my other hobby is photography) and its the cheapest way to get my pics framed.
The timber is just standard grade vic ash from tile importer, really nothing special at all. I sort the boards looking specifically ones for minimal gum veins. I usually get 32x135 and rip them but this time I got mostly 35x90 cause its cheaper and I am a tightarse!
Here are the boards cross cut to rough lengths
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Then I ripped them
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Planed and thicknessed to final size. This took ages...
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I then cut the mitres and then cut the rabbet after the mitres, all of which done on the table saw.
I used a digital angle finder to get it exactly 45degs and used the mitre gauge which came with the saw. Used a piece of scrap timber for the back fence which I screwed into the mitre gauge and used that make a zero clearance back fence to minimise tear out. Did two lengths at the same time so they were exact and labeled them as A B C etc so I know they would be opposing lengths. Used an 80 tooth alternate top bevel blade
The rabbets I just ripped then flip the timber over and ripped again to get rid of the waste. Had to use a chisel to clean up the surface.
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This produced a huge amount of offcuts. It feels sort of wasteful.
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Then glue up. pine cut as pictured (large circle is for squeeze out) and some cheap bunnings ratcheting straps
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Assembled frame yay!
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Then I clean off excess glue and sand to 180 and smooth down edges with 180 paper.
then cut splines (spline jig on table saw) and glue in pieces of jarrah. Used triple chip tooth blade (flattest blade I have) and cut the splines on the back stroke to minimise tear out. Would be handy to have a blade with a flat top. I suppose I could ask the sharpener to grind it that way.
Then cut off excess jarrah and sand the face sides to 240. Then applied the feast western wax (first time using it), waited 15min, buffed and call it done. It was pretty late in the day and I needed to put pictures in a couple to have done asap. Should prob have done at least 2 coats but didnt have time. If people have used this wax before and have advice on it or wax finishes in general would love to hear. unfortunately didnt do many photos of the above stage as I just forgot and was running out of time. But there is pic of the splines with wax on but not buffed:
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and final pics with my photos in the frames
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13th March 2018, 10:12 PM #2
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Cheers for the write up and pics mate, I’m about to get into framing so great timing. There does seem to be a problem with some of the early photos though, they don’t seem to be loading.
Looks like they turned out great!
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13th March 2018, 10:55 PM #3GOLD MEMBER
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i put them in album hope this is better
https://www.woodworkforums.com/members/46260-albums-1243
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16th March 2018, 01:09 PM #4
Very nice frames and very nice photography. You say you got the Vic Ash from a tile importer, that seems an odd place or do they just happen to sell the timber alongside their tiles?
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Haha I think years ago when the business started they had just tiles but it has expanded to selling basically all building materials. It's the cheapest place I've seen standard Vic ash. Apparently they use to stock select grade too which wool be awesome for frames but now they only get it in if they can't get standard from their supplier I think
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For your info here is the link to The Tile Importer's website.
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23rd March 2018, 06:22 PM #7Skwair2rownd
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Very well done frames!!
I particularly like the cover blocks for clamping.
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