We have lots of lovely pictures to hang up around the house, but no frames for any of them, so we recently looked into getting them framed. It turns out this costs a fortune, so we're going to have a crack off it ourselves. The first picture to get framed is going to be a nice one Hugh got for me in Bali last year. It's a stretched canvas, but he had to take the canvas off the frame coming through customs, so step 1 is making another canvas stretcher.
Sophie and Jess came over to give a hand. We cut pieces of timber down to the correct size using a saw and a mitre box. Pretty time consuming, but very satisfying to make it all manually. Next time we'll definitely borrow John's powered mitre saw.
Here are the pieces cut and ready for assembly. Jess is desperately trying to avoid the picture.
Sophie brandishes her saw arsenal.
And here's me with the and Sophie with the first corner stuck together.
It was a bit trickier than I expected. First we held the 2 outer pieces together really hard while Sophie ran a 4mm drill through the outside at a 45 degree angle. Then we spread glue everywhere and stuck a 4mm dowel through. The little corner piece is to give extra strength, and also to make sure that everything is aligned properly. The elastic bands everywhere are holding it together. Now to wait for it to dry. I'm starting to see why it is so expensive to get this done professionally!
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