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I recently finished two bark paintings that the customer has had for around 30 years. The bark was 3-4mm thick and very distorted and very stiff.
The design is very simple - black frame with custome made box lined with same white mat as the bark is mounted on. The inside of the box provides 48mm of space from the glass.
The mat was bonded to coreflute with double sided pressure sensitive adhesive over the entire surface.
Formed rod mounts - 4 top, 4 bottom hold the bark in place. Rods are brass with heat shrink tubing. 1 inch of rod was bent to sit in a groove in the coreflute and held in place with hot melt glue.
Each of the brass rods was made to fit it's location so that no pressure was applied to the bark that might stress it. This was very time consuming to bend then test fit, reshape, test fit reshape, etc, etc, etc.
This job took much longer than I originally estimated, but was a great learning experience.
The design is very simple - black frame with custome made box lined with same white mat as the bark is mounted on. The inside of the box provides 48mm of space from the glass.
The mat was bonded to coreflute with double sided pressure sensitive adhesive over the entire surface.
Formed rod mounts - 4 top, 4 bottom hold the bark in place. Rods are brass with heat shrink tubing. 1 inch of rod was bent to sit in a groove in the coreflute and held in place with hot melt glue.
Each of the brass rods was made to fit it's location so that no pressure was applied to the bark that might stress it. This was very time consuming to bend then test fit, reshape, test fit reshape, etc, etc, etc.
This job took much longer than I originally estimated, but was a great learning experience.
