Tight'n'Up Canvas Retensioner Opinion?

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Sounds like a great way to sell water. - you can get the same effect by spraying a fine mist of water on the back of the canvas. Most canvases relax after tensioning but should still be reasonably tight - Good stretcher pliers are essential as you need to get the maximum tension possible right from the start.
 
I agree... they are selling water! I am a framer and an artist... all you need is a fine mist of water across the back! You should have stretcher pliers as well.. if you aren't using the correct tools to stretch then you won't get as tight of a canvas..
The fine mist of water will also work if there are small wrinkles in the canvas!
 
I've used it before and we carry it in our store (both by customer request). Its not just water and I have found it to work pretty much as advertised and its made by a reputable company. The rest is from a previous discussion on the subject.......................................
I thought I would share what Masterpiece Canvas had to say about their canvas retensioning spray in response to my questions. (Cue the music please.) What sort of material is tight'n'up made of? It seems to make the canvas stiff. Once treated with tight'n'up could a canvas be safely removed from a stretcher, rolled and later restretched? 1-The product is Acrylic and PH neutral
2-The vapors are not harmful and MSDS sheets are available.
3-The product is made to work on natural fabrics. It becomes less
effective
on poly cotton blends as it can't effect the plastic/poly.

First and foremost Tight'n'Up is made to re-tension a canvas that has
become loose due to change in climate. It is not intended to offset
canvases that are not stretched tight to begin with. Please note that
if you use this product on ink jet prints that are not
properly primed it can leach through the coating and effect the
image. Canvas treated with Tight'n'Up can be removed, rolled and re-
stretched.

The best method of maintaining a tight canvas is by using a system
that employs stretcher bars and/or braces to keep your canvas tight.
Keys inserted into the corners of specially designed frames also help
maintain a taught canvas that has loosened over time due to
environmental changes.

Please let us know if you have any other questions.

Customer Service Team
Masterpiece Artist Canvas, Inc.
http://www.masterpiecearts.com


Our thanks to Archie Bell and the Drells and Masterpiece Canvas of S.F.
 
Never had much luck with the water trick on canvas. Actually made it worse..... IMHO.

I have used the Tight n Up product. It's not "just" water and it does work very well....IMHO ;)
 
It seems to me that we've had art restorers tell the Grumble NEVER to spray the back of a canvas with water (regardless of what else it might have in it) because you don't know wether the painting was painted with a water based ground or not.

Water will of course affect the ground and disolve the bond of the paint to the substrates.

The problem of lossening substrates may not show up for quite some time.

Splined stretcher system with tnesioning keys seems to make more sense to me than risking paint flaking.
 
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