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DarthFramer

DarthFramer

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Good Afternoon Fellow Grumbler's! Got a question for you to think about. Looking at Larson Juhl web site, they have a kit to frame TV monitors in homes, etc. What do you think about framing a 22" monitor that will be used as part of our POS/View system? This could be put on the wall with other framing examples. Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? :help: Thanks for the input. Darth
 
Do it, examples sell and you can use it to point out how you need to leave room for the vents and other concerns the customer wouldn't think about if they tried to do it on their own.
 
We have our second monitor framed. We use it with our pos/visualization software.

We used a monitor with a flat profile and thin outside casing. We taped the exposed casing with black linen tape to give it that matboard/liner look.

We carved out a little bit of the back of the moulding to access the side control buttons. I have used the LJ TV kit in the past -- but in this case deep offset clips worked best.

It has not led to any additional sales of TV or Monitor frames. But we use it for size and style discussions with customers.

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Hey, that looks sharp!!

Our LJ rep said he would hook us up with one, and has since forgot. I should remind him.

My only concern is that on the visualization monitor the frame might detract from the frame on the screen.
 
In that case Mary, just frame it with a white mat and narrow black frame.

that way it would NEVER distract from the art.....

Did this one about 6 years ago when I released my DVD on fabric wrapping..

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I routed back the rabbet and added the fillet to cover the ugly black plastic.

The new LED/LED monitors are much thinner and cooler.
 
Darth, I think you have seen mine. I just used a couple of d-rings and some wire to strap it in place.

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Baer, pfftt! LOL

I was wondering about distracting from the image of the FRAME, not the art.
 
I might just do that! :icon21: Can't wait, going to do the radio ad in the morning.
 
I have been putting off framing my monitor for quite awhile.

How do you guys access the power button and monitor setting buttons on the front to the monitor?
 
1) You have the wrong monitor.

2) Ok, I couldn't resist

3) You hav . . . oh, you have what you have..... Ok, power....
you should be running it through a power station anyway.... so that is
a no brainer.

Wow... Ok, maybe we go back to #1.... most of the new monitors
(especially the LED/LED monitors) have their cores in the base.. which
folds away to back when you put it on an arm... My AOC 25" has
no buttons or controls on the front, sides or back. Naked. And it is 1/2"
thick. . . And it was under $200.

As soon as I sell my car, I'm getting a third one for me and one for the
wife. (she only uses a single).

But, if you have to access the buttons on the front... use push through
rods. And if you have to access it rarely.... set the sucker and hang the
frame on it to call it done.

Oh, the ViewSonic that I posted the picture of.... all controls are on the back.
 
FWIW a surge bar can be turned on and off and the monitor when plugged into the surge bar will go on and off with the bar... no mods to the monitor or moulding needed.
 
We framed two of our FrameVue monitors in the past. (we keep increasing the size!). 17", 20", and now 25"

The first one was suspended with a movable arm over the counter (that monitor and arm are now retired for the CMC in the back room).

The other used an LCD wall mounting bracket (about $10) and was in the middle of one of the sample walls. We made a small hole behind it, and ran the wires up and into the drop ceiling.

For both of these, we bought monitors that were appropriate for the cause. (controls were very slim and hidden). We used (frame package extension) clips only on the TOP of the frame that it sit on top of the monitor. The weight of the frame caused the rest of it to sit flush against the monitor.

We could lift the bottom to push the power button, but generally left them on 24/7. When the computer goes into sleep, screen off, or power down mode - all modern monitors see this and turn off their own electronics; except a minimal circuit to detect if it comes back on. (green mode) You'll see the power light usually go from green or blue to orange, when this happens.

Our current (third generation) FV monitor is 25" and LED backlit. (super bright/low power use). We placed it directly on the design counter, back to back with one of the touch screen POS terminals. We found that the old ones were not bright enough, and people were going right up to them to see the results. Now it is much closer to the customer. Response has been positive. We have not yet framed it, however. (I'm not sure that we will this time, but I like one Baer showed)

We also use it for promotional slides (windows screen saver) between customers, and a policy slide (windows wallpaper) when the primary screen is in use to calculate a price. Only the RESULTS go to the customer side. They can't see our LifeSaver or FrameVue work screens.

it's interesting to read how others do it. This is how we have been doing it in our shop, since we added visualization in March of 2005.

Mike
 
My two cents; Out of the above, the only one I liked, or that made any sense, was the one Dave at Framemakers presented. (see post # 6) I think it is primarily due to his choice of the stand that ties the whole thing together. The others look like serious examples of over framing. They look forced onto something that never wanted it in the first place, a piece of electronic equipment.

There they sit, suspended in the air above a counter top or desk for no reason whatsoever. Big honking frames that completely overpower, and have no relationship whatsoever to what they have framed.

Like all things that require a picture frame, there has to be at least some sort of ascetic relationship to the "art", or for decoration purposes, the environment they are displayed in.

Dave was able to accomplish the later with his well thought out stand. He was able to pull it off very successfully.

There remain few logical reasons to frame such a thing as a monitor, most come with a frame of some sort that sets them off without distracting, or looking forced.

The challenge to the picture framer when framing anything, is to make the frame appear to belong to what it is framing, not just stuck around it. A frame not only has to belong to what it is framing, it also must belong to the environment where it will be displayed.

Above and more important to all of what I said in the above, a picture frame must successfully establish a border so the viewers eyes will be drawn to the object that has been framed. The art, not the frame.

Some things do not require a frame, and unless they are done properly, a frame will always look out of place, and usually downright silly around them.

I think Dave's example is one of the few I have ever seen when framing such things as electronic equipment, that actually accomplishes all criteria for good picture framing.

What made it work was not the frame, but the stand. With the stand, it makes sense.

-John
 
Great Ideas - Thanks!

Thanks for the great ideas on framing the visualization monitors. Darth and Mrs. Darth
 
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