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evartpat

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I was telling someone about this framing and after searching, I found my photos.

This was from a while back. One of the few times I have done one of my “signature” hardwood frames for someone. It was quite involved, and to quote Elmer Fudd…

”It was vewy, vewy expenswive…”

:p :p :p


It is all walnut moulding I purchased from Picture Woods unfinished. There are two hand wrapped suede mats separated by a walnut fillet stained to a cherry color.

The frame is two mouldings stacked, with another fillet in the lip of the inner frame. This fillet is also walnut and ebonized, as is the outer frame finish.

The inner frame is mostly a natural oil finish. In the center of each leg I spliced in pieces of the same walnut moulding, the larger pieces the same cherry stain as the fillet in the mat, and the outer two stripes ebonized walnut again. I then wrapped the corners of the inner frame with a pleated soft black goatskin. Museum glass over the mats.
 

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Wow. That is absolutely gorgeous.

How stable will the goatskin be over time? Won't it dry out or mildew (depending on where in the country it lives) in a few years? Will the customer have to do anything to maintain it?
 
I believe, "Stunning!!","Wow!!", and "Perfect!!" pretty much cover it!! I mean, there isn't a lot more you could say, if there were, I'd try to say it!!! All of your designs blow me away, why do you put pictures in the middle? Randy J.
 
Pat, when you post designs, it seems to me like
I could never imagine anything else on the piece.
Baer's are that way, too. Just the right thing,
and then you create some unique design element
that enhances the art beautifully.
 
First off...thanks to all for the very kind comments! :)

Framar...you bring up an interesting point. The leather was dyed and cured and was from a place that sold leather to the clothing industry. So I assumed it had longevity. It was done some time ago. I haven't heard anything, but I am curious now and am planning to contact them on Monday and check up on it.

Robo...the spliced design is actual cross-section slices of the mouldng cut on a table saw with a high quality blade, sanded, stained, then glued and clamped. I cut the legs extra long with straight cut ends to allow me to clamp the pieces in a long clamp. Then I oiled the legs very carefully to not smear any of the stain, then after some days waxed with Liberon Tudor Oak wax which filled the seams, brought out the grain nicely, and darkened the cherry stained areas to the color I wanted. Then I measured out from the spliced areas evenly on each side to size, then cut the miters.
 
I ditto all of the above comments! It is absolutely perfect and I can't even imagine anything else coming a close second to that design. :thumbsup: x 1000!
 
Simply stunning!

That took a lot of work from the design in your head until the finished project.
Did it turn out how you wanted or did you adjust along the way?
 
Steven6095 said:
Simply stunning!

That took a lot of work from the design in your head until the finished project.
Did it turn out how you wanted or did you adjust along the way?
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Thanks for the compliment...:)

It turned out pretty much how I visualized it. It required alot of advance planning with little room for change along the way.
 
:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
 
I hope you are saving all these photos for a web site because few could touch your skil,l and there certainly is a specialty market for this type of framing.
 
only question comes to mind-----how lloooong did it take from start to finish??????????
 
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