Make An Slowly Film Frame Amongst Glass
A few months agone I got a distich of gorgeous fine art prints from frameless, floating mount for together with hung it inwards my bedroom. The minute print, is massive! (30" x 40") And sat nether my bed until I came upward amongst an as huge frame. There was no means I was going to pay the coin for a custom frame, then I decided to brand a real, high character frame myself.
I establish a few dissimilar tutorials for making a large painting exhibit frame, only I wasn't satisfied amongst whatever of them. Either they were built likewise flimsy, required exceptional tools (like a router), or didn't adapt a sail of existent glass. I'm actually happy amongst the solution I came upward with. It was slowly to build, sturdy, together with is a amount fledged frame, amongst a groove for a heavy sail of glass.
Materials List
- 1 x iii direct pino boards
- *1/4" foursquare woods dowel
- *wood glue
- *1-1/4" bag hole screws
- *fender washers
- *1/2" woods screws
- *sawtooth hangers
1. The get-go mensuration is to cutting together with miter the principal boards downwardly to size. The actual length volition depend on the size of fine art impress you're framing. All 4 boards teach a 45 aeroplane cutting on both ends. You desire the brusk sides of the boards to jibe the length together with width of the fine art (ie. If your impress is 8 x 10, you lot desire ii boards at 8" brusk side to brusk side, together with ii boards at 10" brusk side to brusk side).
2. Drill ii 3/4" bag holes, on the diagonal ends of each board.
3. Brush woods gum on the mitered sides together with align the corners of the frame. Clamp the boards together on a apartment piece of occupation surface together with stimulate ii 1-1/4" bag hole screws.
4. With the basic frame built, at that spot needs to locomote a groove for the glass, print, together with backer panel to sit down in. You tin notice 1/4" foursquare dowels on depression shelves inwards the moulding aisle at Home Depot.
5. Measure the within of the frame together with cutting together with miter the dowels to fit. Space the dowels, allowing a 1/4" deep infinite on the backside of the frame. If you lot are using 3/4" stock for the frame, the dowels should locomote placed inwards the middle of the within edge. Apply gum together with clamp the dowels inwards house spell they dry. If you lot bring a 23 jurist pivot nailer, you lot could tack the dowel inwards place, only I wouldn't recommend eighteen jurist brads (they'll blow the frail woods apart).
6. Once the gum is fully dry, you lot tin pigment or stain the frame anyway you'd like. Normally I'd cutting the drinking glass myself, similar I did amongst my kitchen cabinets, only Home Depot together with Lowe's don't sell drinking glass sheets large enough. I used a 40% off coupon from Hobby Lobby together with had a 30" x 40" slice of drinking glass cutting for $24.
I flipped the frame over together with pose the glass, art, together with cardboard backer inwards the groove. Since I didn't bring whatever plough buttons on hand, I used a fob I saw at Remove together with Replace. I screwed fender washers on the within border of the frame, overlapping the backer panel slightly. It holds everything snugly inwards house together with tin locomote easily unscrewed if anything needs to locomote replaced.
7. I screwed a pair of sawtooth hangers to the backside of the frame together with hung my novel fine art on the wall.
I actually similar the extra item the 1/4" dowel adds to the within of the frame. You could ever align the bring down to the exterior aspect upward together with create amount the seam amongst woods filler if you lot wanted a totally polish profile.
With the glass, this frame toll me to a greater extent than or less $50 to make. WAY less than I would bring paid for a corporation wood, custom frame this size.
This frame could locomote made inwards whatever size! I made mine huge, only you lot could locomote this technique to brand a smaller frame too. Ready to teach building? Pin the epitome below to relieve the stance for later.
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