I woke up in the middle of the night.........

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A customer came into my shop and wants me to restretch her oil painting onto smaller stretcher bars, she just couldn't LIVE with all that BLUE background! No problem I tell her, but, last night, I woke up with a knot in my brain, thinking that maybe I'm forgetting something. Anyone had any problems coming in like this on an oil painting? I figured I might be asking the right group, since I get the impression that a few of you have gotten up in the night with a framing thought. Thank you kindly. :eek:
 
If you must do this in the end, you would not be
the first, but your midnight thoughtfulness speaks
well for your regard for things entrusted to you.
Turning the canvas over the stretcher bars will
crack the paint film but the greater problem is
what to do at the corners? The folding
required to create a corner will likely cause
the paint to flake. You might use a wide liner
to cover the offending portion of the painting.
The liner can be tirmmed so that is has no more
rabbet and the painting can go behind in and into
the rabbet of the frame itself. This may not allow
as much reduction of "blue" but it can eliminate
the need for your doing anything perilous, which
could result in someone coming back later with
a compliant.

Hugh
 
Hugh,
You're fired!
Geez a typo can you imagine!

Loopy

AKA
 
Thanks for the reply, Hugh! The value of this painting is really just personal, a friend did the painting of my customers horse. Would this make any difference in any of your advice? I'm glad to see "typo's". I always kringe when I have to spell "restretch", I don't know, guess it's just a mental block I have!
 
Is there an option available to have a really wide moulding and increase the rebate width to the outer edge? I have done this (on top and bottom) with good results.
 
I must admit, I don't know what it means to "increase the rebate width to the outer edge". I've always meant to take that class.......
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Katie, you can choose a very wide fillet, add it to the frame and cover up about another inch all around of the painting. I think that's what Lance means. Or add two fillets: but it's no fun anchoring them, believe me.
You just then fill in the back between the original rabbet and the edge of the canvas. How much do you have to cover. (I hate to restretch because as stated above, it's risky to the art.)

I woke up in the middle of the night and wondered what the billy **** I meant by "filling in the space"? There IS no space between the rabbet and the edge of the canvas. Dumb.
 
The customer wants to cover 1 1/2" all the way around, she ended up choosing two mouldings stacked. Humph. I looked at the paint, and it seems rather light (not thick) in the background, I wondered if this would make any difference with the potential cracking? Isn't this why we love framing, making it work for the customer? I personally didn't think the blue was THAT bad. Maybe it didn't match her chesterfield.
 
Katie, Chesterfield?? What part of Canada are you from?

John
 
MM, that is pretty much it. Routering out and increasing the rebate (rabbet for you foreigners), if you are stacking frames it will be fairly easy to simply cut the rebate off the inner frame so as it sits over nicely.
 
So, Lance, I was wondering.......could you actually SEE the lightbulb go off over my head as far away as New Zealand?
! Thanks! I've decided to cut the oil with sissors and staple it to foamcore...............just kidding.

Off I go to the wild rabbet yonder!
 
Thanks for explaining the rebate/rabbet thing, Lance.
 
Good onya Lance. You might be a Kiwi but you can spell. I've been away for 4 days and it's gonna take a while to read all the grumbles. Hooroo Alan
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