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14th October 2021, 07:28 PM #1.
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Some picture frames
SWMBO has an endless collection of stuff she's collected over the years that she wants me to frame and when I bought my SCMS last year, one of the "rationales" was, "it can do picture frames" , so now I have to deliver.
This was one I made last year, just after I bought the SCMS.
I've posted it before but am posting it here again to show some sort of erratic behaviour pattern.
It's a Japanese print we picked up from our 94/95 stay in Japan, so only 25 years to get it into a frame!
I did make a really nice frame for it in 2007? but it broke before it was hung.
This frame is made from some wooden stiffening pieces inside the polystyrene packing from our new dishwasher.
Japaneseprint.jpg
This one I have shown before and is unbacked quilted piece SWMBO put together during our 2010 stay in Canada.
I made the frame in 2018 from a 70 year old south West coast Jarrah Fence post. No mitre saw involvement.
More details here rustic picture frame
This is the latest frame made for a poster we got at a Van Gogh exhibition in Amsterdam in 2002.
It's made from 100 year old jarrah fence pickets I found a a nearby house demo
Vangogh.JPG
This was quite a tricky exercise because NONE of the pickets were that straight or uniformly dimensioned and wanted to retain the weathered look at least in the front, and the outside edge
I ended up putting the back sides through the thicknesser to get them all the same thickness, and then got them to the same width and straightened up the inside edge on the planar, which also enabled me to put a straight rebate on that edge with a router.
The frame is quite large (~600 x 600mm) so to keep the frame strong and rigid the mitred corners each contain a biscuit and a 3mm thick Al corner plate screwed onto the backs of each corner.
I have been looking for several years for old grey pickets and last week happened to be driving past a recent nearby house demolition where most of the stuff had been carted away but there were just a couple of beaten up sections of picket fence remaining, The nails were completely rusted but were held on by more recently applied rusted bugle screws. I tried to pry the pickets off the fence rails but the pickets just shattered ao I went back home and got some tools. I drove past this morning to get a few more but they have now all gone.
SWMBO has LSO dragged out a heap more for me to tackle but I figure one a year might be all I'm up for.
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18th October 2021, 02:03 PM #2SENIOR MEMBER
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Sooo good to see these old fence posts repurposed
Picture frames look great Bob
Rich and Rustic
Thanks for sharing
Log Dog
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