Round stretcher

[Bob Doyle]

I am looking for a 16" round stretcher for a giclee on canvas.

Instead of looking in my catalogs I came here first who knows where i can get such an animal

 

[FrameMakers]

I would make one from plywood or MDF and a router.

 

[Ylva]

Might be a stupid idea; but I might look into the 'stretchers' used for needle art; check the art stores.

 

[Bob Doyle]

Ylva, not a bad idea. Maybe I could get one shipped from Florida

I was thinking of calling Presto, then calling my neighbor to have him make one. But I need to actually get the frame in first

 

[Ylva]

Don't tell chix I said so; they had such stuff at the Wallyworld...not sure if they still do. Or M's...of J-A; sorry to use bad words!

 

[wpfay]

http://www.simonliuinc.com/html/shapedstretcher.php

There ya go...

 

[Jim Miller]

I am looking for a 16" round stretcher for a giclee on canvas.

Simon Liu is the source for other-than-rectangular stretchers, if you really need that.

The last time I had to mount an oval canvas, I made a strainer out of matboard. I used my CMC to cut the shape 8 times out of 4-ply alpha cellulose boards, which included 6 layers that had an opening 4" smaller than the perimeter (2" margin, that is), plus two layers with an opening only 1/2" smaller than the perimeter, to create the raised 1/4" wide lip on the outside-top edge.

Then I laminated the board layers together using wet paste in my vacuum press. That made the correct shape out of preservation-grade material, and it works for any shape. It is made from parts on hand, and it is inexpensive - the total cost is about the same as you would pay for shipping of an oval stretcher.

This technique works for all sorts of textiles to be stretched, whether laced, pinned, tacked, or stapled.

 

[echavez123]

I have used http://www.art-boards.com/index.htm several times for large round stretchers.

 

[Bob Doyle]

Thanks everyone. I knew there was a resource out there, and that someone here would know of it