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Picture Framing
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" Leslie you've got a flourish here. Right trying to tell me about it yes we have a money saving flourish here we decided to use a couple of pieces of historically documented wallpaper from there. SP NEA collection which is made average and -- We took them to. Ron and Tracy and home of Cape Cod picture framing and -- enough and they will be hung here."
" Well Ron those moldings you created look straight out of the frame shop thank you -- very nice now this is the kind of stuff that you. You normally look at when you go to -- framing store right this is prefinished. Frame molding that we cut and your line moonlight and the prefinished material usually runs a lot of money some tentative he's twenty dollars a foot. An even higher right -- so show us how you made this alternative. -- this is this is a sample of that right correct this is what we came up with. I want to the lumber yard and selected a couple of moldings that I could put together in order to create a rabbit. But the glass in the -- to go and so the rabbit is this kind of corner. Where the artwork in the glass have to sit and how did you do that what's. Lumber yard moldings right I selected these two moldings which when combined create the Rabbet and give her friend nice profile. I see so do you glue them up together first. Yes bloom and tack them together. With small nails that can removed so that I can cut them both at the same time all right start with a 45 degree angle cut. And and we want this -- to be 36 sensors. We'll measure that off inside the Rabbet of the crime. And market. Now nailing and gluing together the mitered corners can be interest -- right that's right. That's why we use this corner clamp that's permanently. At a 45 degree angle so that you just fit them into the corner clamp. Remove corners. Together in the clamp and then tighten. I adamant position before I glow. Over how it. Before you glue right so that I can line up the miter OK and I apply glue to one. Side just -- carpenter's glue right a good wood glue is fine here plenty of glue on glue does a lot of the work. And the excess glue can be wiped off sure. And then what we use for fasteners is. Three quarters by eighteen wire crowds and these are inch and a quarter by seventeens. That usually those two sizes will be sufficient for anything an ambulance but we'll pre drill right. Pre drill so it's flows toward it. And when I Nelson wants suggests I usually put in three nails to one side and one the dollar's. Justice. Laws distract. The concede that three quarter inch panels can be. Long enough for the top. To. We'll set these and an. I don't need a lot of wait. And -- his alarm and help. So Ron one trick for making it easier is to do. Two sides glue them let them set up and then the next day assemble the frame itself right that way you won't loosen up the quonset regarded put together. While you're completing the crimes and do the same thing over in the same manner. We've built the frame and primed it front and back so the white primer is just an oil based spray primer that's correct. And her daughter Tracy does the finishes on the friends she's now spraying it with a gold spray paint. So this is just standard stuff did you buy at a hardware store or paint supply right there are a few different shades available Tracy how many coats do you put on."
" Usually to. If there's still some primer showing through then obviously it's anymore. And we've found that the eighteen carat gold plate color is about one okay. After you've -- candidate with the gold paint what do you do to get this antiqued finish. Well what we do is we mix up our own and peeking out of -- Paste wax base and pigments he can use Japan paints at her. Dryer pigments. -- spread a thin layer so that you only get a little bit on your brush which -- started damp brush. And -- a little bit down today dampen it with a little water and then you just stipple it on yet -- stipple it right on. Just mainly worry about the area that you want to get in nineteen king. Because will be wiping off some of the frame to get some highlighting. -- want to wet your rag a little. When. --"
" And this stuff dries practically immediately then."
" Yes within what ten minutes and -- know -- because it hasn't dusty look to it wouldn't."
" Very nice. Ron and Tracy thank you very much thank you won't."