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Ok after trying to be a little eco friendly with discontinued frame samples I finally figured out what to do with these besides throwing them in the dumpster.

I use them as frame corner protectors, if I am able to get four with approx. the same size. I put them on and wrap them with plastic foam and stretch left over from packaging. Works great. Especially with big frames that are heavy.
What do ya think? Am I crazy? :nuts:
 
Sure seems like a waste of time, but if you have that much time on your hands, more power to you.

so..basically... yes you're crazy.:nuts::shutup::shutup:
 
framah said:
Sure seems like a waste of time, but if you have that much time on your hands, more power to you.

so..basically... yes you're crazy.:nuts::shutup::shutup:
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No framah I don't have that much time on my hands. Think outside your box.:nuts:
 
I can see how it would work but by the time I found enough samples I was throwing out to protect all four corners and then wrap them in bubble wrap and tape and such, I would have had the whole piece wrapped in the bubble wrap left over from the chop orders.

So.. do you have a storage area where you keep all of those discontinued samples??

After you have created these protectors, how do you attach them to the frame job?

After rereading your post, it sounds like you just stack them up against the frame corners and then wrap them against the frame. As Ylva said, i would worry about marring the finish of the frame unless you wrap them as I originally thought you did.

I am thinking out of the box and my thoughts have me concluding that it's pretty much a waste of time.

But as I said before.. if it works for you, go for it.:thumbsup:

and by the way..you aren't any crazier than the majority of the framers here on the G.
 
I put a small amount of foam over the corners and then the frame sample in this case I used an old liner and four were about the same size. Then I used those poly bags our moulding comes in and tightly wrapped around from one corner to the other. Followed by a very tight wrap of stretch film. It seems to have worked well and no scratching the frame. I wouldn't do it around a very expensive job though. You do have good points about time consuming and care or the frame though. Maybe some more thought into this is needed.
 
If you are already using padded wrap and stretch film, I don't see what purpose the old samples serve. It seems that they would just add bulk, corners sticking out that could snag on the customer's car seats etc., and look like what they are- cast-offs.
:shrug: Rick
I recycle all white puffy wrap, bubble wrap and glass box cardboard for wrapping finished jobs, and it is very useful, decent-looking, and efficient, and not too time-consuming. Corner samples, though... nah.
 
Didnt someone on here use these disc'd samples for some type of craft project? Pretty neat that I remember.
 
You can make an interesting wall mounted coat rack out of 3 or 4 similar sized ones pinned together then add a few coat hook dowels to them.
 
Corner samples are in no way "green". Repurposing them only pushes them down the line to some other soul that has to eventually deal with them isn't a solution. If we want to achieve something here, we need to look to the suppliers of those samples.
 
Nope...

Someone on here made something out of those samples. I am thinking a sign maybe. Cant remember, and the search function is not my friend right now.

Maybe someone will come along. I like Markoc's idea.
 
I think it was Dave who made some signs for house numbers using a couple of the wider moulding samples joined together. They looked quite nice.

Edit... tried searching for the thread and couldn't find it, so I may just imagining this use for moulding samples or got the wrong Grumbler.
 
I just throw mine at PITA customers...the more PITA they are the harder I throw them and hope to hit a vital area.

and yes we are all little bit crazy to be in this career.
 
Here's the post but unfortunately the pictures are gone.

http://www.thegrumble.com/showthrea...ales-with-little-to-no-COGS&highlight=wreaths

I've sold them with brass nameplates for $ 50-100 each.

Another thing I've done with discontinued moulding sample is take two that have the same profile, even though they have a different finish, miter them and make small mirrors out of them often stacking the mouldings with short length leftovers. Designers love them and I've sold some for as much as $ 300.00 with most of them between $ 50-100. They display best when hung as a diamond. The best selling ones are the smallest mirror ones. I've sold some with mirrors in them that were 1/4" X 1/4".

Also you can take two same profiles of discontinued metal mouldings and just put them together to make small frames. I usually fill with small scrap fabric board and sell for people to mount old pins, jewelry, etc. on... charge about $10-20 each.

Another great use for short length leftovers is to make fabric lined jewelry boxes out of them. I've also made cleanex boxes.
 
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