one more question re: stacking frames

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Hi - I have one more question about this to all those people who were so helpful previously. When the inner frame fits flush with the outer frame do you suggest putting a nail through the inner frame's rabbet into the outer frame? I'm using multimaster points for frames that don't fit flush.

Thanks!
 
Ice-I personally don't like to do that but instead use those flat metal bars (don't know what they are called for sure) that have opennings for screws in each end for that kind of thing... good luck
 
Mending plates.
 
Yeah, mending plates.

Maybe it's just my oddball ways, but whenever I stack frames together I like to make it easy to take them apart. I figure that eventually a fabric liner will get dirty, or one of the frames might get damaged and will need to be replaced or repaired. That's why I'll use points, mending plates or offset clips rather than nailing them together.

And maybe this is being way too paranoid, but I also wonder if there wouldn't be an issue with different woods expanding and contracting at different rates. If so, then being nailed or attached too tightly together might cause problems. Or maybe not.
 
Originally posted by FramerDave:
And maybe this is being way too paranoid, but I also wonder if there wouldn't be an issue with different woods expanding and contracting at different rates. If so, then being nailed or attached too tightly together might cause problems. Or maybe not.
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You are entirely correct Dave; your being way too paranoid. Both or all of the frames are going to expand and contract the same way: ACROSS THE GRAIN.

Also a word of note: Wood does not expand and contract 1/8" per INCH it does so across 1 FOOT. So yes a table gets 1/2" wider in the hot muggy summer or gets skinny in the winter.

If you want ease to take apart, try pre-drilling a pocket hole for every 16" of a side, through the inner frame and put a screw that goes through the pocket and 1/2 way through the outer frame.

This way you have a smooth back, and no bump into the framing space.
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ummm.........whats a mending plate?

Elsa
 
Originally posted by elsa:
ummm.........whats a mending plate?

Elsa
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Originally posted by Angie Pearson, CPF:
. . . those flat metal bars (don't know what they are called for sure) that have opennings for screws in each end . . .
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