A Tacking Terror

**masoth** · 26th March 2006, 01:53 PM

Years ago my older sisters gave to me an unframed photograph of our mother, which is hand tinted, and is about 700x340mm.
This picture, and the glass which is covered by copywrite dated 1907, are curved to a convex both length-wize and width-wize. The thickness of the glass is less than the picture-card.
A mate (who had been a builder/cabinet maker) made a compiementary frame which I spent MANY hours staining and sanding (including the use of steel-wool and hand rubbing). I couldn't reject his gift, but believe he created my present problem - he routed the face of the frame to accept the picture and the glass.
My problems:
* No local commercial outfit will risk the job of installing the picture/glass;
* I'm not prepared to ask back-yarders; and
* My efforts have failed (all the modern sticky products and staples).
So, what do I do? Tacking against the glass is truly a terror.

**woodbe** · 26th March 2006, 02:32 PM

Post a photo...

Rout a groove on the back and do it the normal way?

woodbe.

**masoth** · 26th March 2006, 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by woodbe

Post a photo...

Rout a groove on the back and do it the normal way?

woodbe.

Thanks, but I should have mentioned there is no space for that solution

**Greg Q** · 26th March 2006, 03:03 PM

Would it be possible to forgo your polishing work, use the rebate already grooved as the back of the frame (and using its back as the show side)?

If the back of the frame cannot be polished, perhaps it can be veneered, then polished?

My grandmother had a few of those old convex glazed oval picture frames, and they were veneered only on the face side. They are still hanging intact
seventy years later.

Greg

**masoth** · 26th March 2006, 03:30 PM

gregoryq - wonderful thought, and one that did not occur to me.
The polished face has multiple routed facets and the back is simply flat. Of course the outer shape exists but I want to preserve the "effort" of my mate's work.

**Greg Q** · 26th March 2006, 04:03 PM

Ok then. How abovt this:

Make a plywood oval the exact dimensions of the glass, and glue it in place in the rebate. Gue it very well, and when it has set, start again-cut out the correct oval, and trim it with the router., Flip it over and cut the rebate in the back side of the frame.

This will of course leave you with a 10mm (or whatever the dimensions of the present, incorrect rebate) showing. This you will have to stain very dark, and it will be a nice contrasting element if done sympathetically with the polishing that you have already accomplished.

Greg

By the way, thanks for saying 'thanks'

**Skew ChiDAMN!!** · 26th March 2006, 04:16 PM

Would it be possible to steam a bead into correct shape to act as a retainer, but fasten it from the back with small screws? It'd be damned fiddly work, out of my patience bracket I'm afraid, but I think it'd be possible...

**masoth** · 26th March 2006, 04:48 PM

gregoryq and Skew - thank you both. I reckon I now have a solution.

A small triangle of wood glued in the rebate over the glass - this will give the strength lacking in earlier attempts - then covered with some gap filler painted as a contrast to the polish.

No threat to the glass which was a MAJOR worry. Isn't life simple if problems are shared?

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