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Customer calls an hour ago. She has a piece of artwork to frame, would I come see it, decide where she should hang it, and come up with framing options. So, I hope in my trusty van and go......




Thomas K****** puzzle.



Pretty sweet huh? I go back after the holiday with samples and framing options in hand. I'm thinking closed corner.
 
Oh, yeah. And it should be at least 8" wide, in order to bring out the beautiful texture and nuances of that puzzle.
 
I'm embarrassed to admit this, but I think there is a completed TK puzzle in our puzzle caddy, waiting to framed for my mother.....from several years ago.

I wonder if she remembers that I still have it. OOPS!! Sorry Mom, it all came apart....
 
Hehehe, that's funny.

I'm not kiddin Jim! I'm gunna do my best to move the cc. Hey, why not. She'll love it and I get enough for a night out on the town, unless I order 8 oz of venison in England.
 

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OMG!! That's the same one hiding in our puzzle caddy!

ACK-ACK-ACK!!

Oooooops.........

Go for it, Johnny. She'll treasure it forever. Museum glass, too.
 
johnny said:
Customer calls an hour ago. She has a piece of artwork to frame, would I come see it, decide where she should hang it, and come up with framing options. So, I hope in my trusty van and go......

Thomas K****** puzzle.

Pretty sweet huh? I go back after the holiday with samples and framing options in hand. I'm thinking closed corner.
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I just heard that the artist formally know as "the painter of light" would now like to be called "the painter of puzzles" ;)
Bill
Ocean Art
 
So close to selling the closed corner, alas it's a Larson Mantilla gold frame with a linen liner, conservation clear between the frames, and artcare restore mounting. Only the best for TK, that little teddy bear of light. I go back to hang it on Friday.
 
I'm curious Johnny, how will you be mounting that puzzle?

Last puzzle I tackled was HUGE! Something like 48 x 36 (that's big, for a puzzle!). It came in "sorta glued down" to a piece of corrugated cardboard. It was one of the biggest Nightmares on Frame Street that I've ever had.

Brrrrrr!!!
 
Val said:
I'm curious Johnny, how will you be mounting that puzzle?

Last puzzle I tackled was HUGE! Something like 48 x 36 (that's big, for a puzzle!). It came in "sorta glued down" to a piece of corrugated cardboard. It was one of the biggest Nightmares on Frame Street that I've ever had.

Brrrrrr!!!
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I was going to put it on the restore board and let it bake. We've been spray mounting them to foam by laying the puzzle upside down on a table and coating it with adhesive, then placing the board down on top of it and running our hands over it over and over again to press it down. Then we touch something metal because we love the pain.

However, I just purcahsed my first case of Restore ever so, why not... after I've played with a few sheets first.

Your puzzle sounds like it should have been tackled with a putty knife and 4 to 6 bottles of beer. I think we'd have done that the same way as above, get it upside down on a table then smoosh it.
 
I just did 4 pieces using the Mantilla black...which is not really black, but more of a walnut color. :P It has a white ground under the finish and the sticks I got had tons of the little white lines in it. I suppose you might call it a "patina", but I found them annoying and ended up rubbing most of them out with walnut putty.

Are you using the restore with a vacuum press or a roller? Let us know how you like it.
 
I had a man bring in a 36x48 puzzle to be framed about a year and a half ago that he put together upside down. No Lie!! He brought it in unglued and sandwiched between two pieces of large cardboard. We had to tilt it to get it thru the door. Well guess what. About 1/4 slipped onto the floor. We both simultaneously said OH Sh#t!!!. I had to clean all the mat samples off my counter so he could come by everyday to reassemble it. As irritated as I was with it, we became good buddies. He died about two months after I framed it.
 
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