Can I have a rush picture framing job?

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Do we do "rush picture framing? " This is a popular, yet slightly, oxymoronic customer question to which, the self-evident answer is obviously, yes, but only if we can .  And thepicture-framer-rushing-to-a-job reason why 99% of picture framers cannot always drop everything to do that urgent picture frame a customer wants is that they are busy making picture frames for the other customers that came ahead in the work queue. This is a similar work flow to other trades. Most mechanics aren't idle and waiting for a car to be brought in to be repaired. Normally they're ..

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Do custom picture frames come with cord or wire, or something I can hang it with?

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We don't know why (probably because we're picture framers) but the question "do custom picture frames come with cord or wire?" is still a frequently asked question frompicture-frame-with-hanging-wire-fitted customers. And the answer has always been, and still is, yes. For very heavy picture frames, like heavy mirrors, we fit hanging chains. For medium size picture frames,  poster frames, and smaller photo frames or production picture frames we fit mountaineering-grade nylon cord. We actually don't know of any picture framers who -do not - fit a chain, some wire or cord   ..

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Why buying custom frames or picture framing online doesn’t work!

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Buying stuff online with mouse clicks from one's home armchair is quick and easy. In fact, it’s a lot easier and quicker shopping-online-photo-framesthan having to get into a car and drive down to a street store to do it, right? We buy iPads, cars, houses and even Ready-Made picture frames online, so why not custom picture frames ? After all there are online picture framing stores with clever wizards and widgets with .. which frame up pretty much anything we want, isn't that so? But this service strategy doesn't really work for custom picture framing...

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What’s the main difference between Custom-Made and Ready-Made picture frames?

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The  main difference between custom-made and ready-made picture frames is the price. Custom picture frames are made oneselection-ready-made-picture-frames at a time, usually with better-quality materials, to exactly suit and fit customer's artwork. Both labour and materials cost more so the price will be higher. Ready-made picture frames on the other hand, are produced in mass, often with common-quality materials, to approximately suit the 20 or so most common picture framing  sizes. With regard to custom frames, the framer chooses each component of a ...

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A picture frame should not cost more than the print or poster it was bought for

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Many Customers who walk into a picture framer's shop thinking that a picture frame should not cost more than the print thatcheap-framed-poster they want framed.  And in our many years of picture framing experience, by far the most of Customers' artwork brought in for picture framing, is commercial, mass-produced, disposable and inexpensive. This is particularly so with oil paintings and batiks or similar art bought for a few dollars at popular, overseas tourist holiday resorts. This art often comes in various media, shapes and ...

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About Ultra Violet (UV) protection conservation picture framing glass

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Even weak daylight rays will slowly but surely fade the inks in a photograph or print by "bleaching" the colochamfering-conservation-picture-framing-glassurs unless you have conservation picture framing glass.  All light contains ultraviolet or "UV" rays and most picture frames are glazed with ordinary, clear picture framing glass. This type of glass blocks only about half of the UV rays and will not conserve colours or prevent fading. To retard fading, as absolute prevention is .. almost impossible, ask your picture framer to use"UV" filtering glass While this ...

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All prints, photos and art should be conservation framed to lessen deterioration

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Should all art be conservation framed to lessen deterioration? We don't think so. In our many years of making picture frames and picture framing experience, by far the vast majority of prints, posters and allied art brought in by Customers for deteriorated-stained-foxed-bookpicture framing consists of inexpensive, ephemeral, decorative, mass-produced, tourism-related, commercial, mechanical reproductions. Most of these are cosmetic, decor items and, as such, likely to be discarded by Customers when these become unfashionable in as little as a few years. Most of this kind or art can be inexpensively framed with cheap Ready-Made poster frames ...

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Cheap, simple, functional, effective and elegant clip frames, or frameless frames

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Wiki-Knowledge-article-iconClip frames, available online here, are also colloquially, though often inaccurately, called ' Frameless frames', 'Snap wall-of-clip-frames frames' . ' Borderless frames' or 'Glass frames.' Clip framing is a very economical, effective and elegant method of displaying photographs, prints and other works on paper. This minimalist look ensures that the clip framing never intrudes or interferes for the attention of the framed art. Almost invariably, a clip frame will be made up of a piece of either glass pane or plastic, transparent glazing ...

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Custom picture frame your cherished memories with creative picture frames

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Wiki-Knowledge-article-iconWith creative picture frames, such memorabilia frames, it is possible to hold, capture and keep your most cherished memories by custom picture framing some of the items orframed-soccer-shoes objects associated with the memories' times or events. In this example, a pair of child-sized, soccer boots are mounted and framed in the 3-dimensional silver, box picture frame. The boots were brought in by a female customer whose brother was soon to become 21.  She had asked that the boots be picture framed economically and in time for his birthday. The items were picture framed with two mats over a light background  inside a...

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Do the Eastleigh Frames’ staff do all their own picture framing themselves?

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Wiki-Knowledge-article-iconYes, we do. There are still country agencies and remote or smaller newsagencies and art shops who send their customer's workmaking-picture-frames to be done outside at wholesale factories. We of course, have our own picture framers and manufacture all custom work such as photo frames, picture frames at our industrial premises in Moorabbin, Victoria. With us your artwork will never get forwarded on, double-handled and maybe, get lost or damaged. Making picture frames begins with a consultation. A customer comes in with a print, photograph, poster or other artwork to be framed. Together with ...

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