SWMBO has been collecting various scenic prints from holiday destination for several years now and I've been saying I'd frame them on a round-2-it basis.
We got one to take to a friend when we visit next month so I thought I'd better get a practise one underway as I've not made my own frame stock before.
This is not a particularly ambitious section.
about 45mm wide made on the table saw with the blade inclined at 15 degrees and then a rebate for the picture, glass and backer done on the router table.
Mitred and glued with a band clamp and let to dry on a flat surface. I wanted a plain frame so as not to distract from the picture but felt the beech needed livening up a but so I decided to fit contrasting tenons across the corner joints.
So out with the trusty 4mm kerf, flat top ground blade I got from cutting solutions that I like to use for all my Norm-esque table saw joinery.
Dust off the tablesaw tenoning jig - marvellous tool and regularly discounted by Rutlands- every table saw owner should have one.
Then mounted up the frame at 45 degrees using the jig stops
and in close up at the business end
I soon had some 25mm deep x 4mm wide perfectly flat bottomed grooves across each corner. If I'd used a normal ATB blade, the bottom of the groove would have been "W" shaped
Then over to the thicknesser to make some strip of iroko 4mm thick and about 30mm wide (no photo - you all know what a thicknesser looks like - and I forgot to take one )
Chopped up into triangles all apart from the last one - I was not going to change my name to 8 fingers!!
and one dry fitted in a corner slot
Quite a deep slot and none of my glue brushes were suitable so biscuit adaptor for the glue bottle to the rescue - just right at 4mm wide.
Glued, fitted and drying.
Didn't really need to photo that step really eh?
Then I used a tool that rarely sees the light of day in my woodworking methods, a low angle block plane was just right to trim the tenon within a gnats whatnot of the frame prior to a sanding through the grits of the finished article.
In fact this last photo is of the little sample frame I made up from the offcuts of the main one - the glue is still drying of the deliverable job whilst I have a cuppa and write this up.
Fleabay delivered a gun to fire in the "points" to hold the picture in place today so off to get some 2mm glass tomorrow have a play with the gun ( a sort of uprated staple gun) and the job's a good un.
When I get to making the batch of frames, I might do the chamfer on the spindle as my table saw method did give me a little too much variation from piece to piece - still, learning about the problems was the object of the exercise.
Thanks for reading
Bob