Re: Big Barn痴 Retirement Farm Shop
This moulding was so large with such deep cuts that we couldn't machine in it one piece. We designed an aligning interlock to assist in gluing it together. All we did is mill the profiles, our customer put them together, mitered and made the frame etc. There were a total of (50) frames with an approximate OD of 80 x 88.
8" clear pine crown moulding:
Splined corner frames:
Mirror frames made of walnut with 1/16" thick solid brass laminated to one surface. We made the moulding, including brushing the brass with a satin linear finish on our profile sander and mitered it, our customer joined (with 1/8" thick brass splines) and finished them. We made four prototypes for a potential job of around 350 total. We quoted them a price for the prototypes with a goal of determining production costs. I guess it was too high...
We use the
Hoffmann Dovetail System to join most of our frames. This is a promo compilation to show the features:
Many of our customers make very large frames. This one made a system to stand them up for fitting (adding the glazing [acrylic in frames this large], artwork, backing, spacers or what-have-you).
A "floater" frame is one that exposes the sides of a painting on canvas. Here is a pic of the application and a batch being glued up.
We made a multi-opening frame for a Beatles memorabilia collection. The bottom three frames open to reveal additional items:
A couple flooring jobs, including a pic of my office (the one with the walnut French Knot inlay):
We often make stair treads to go with our flooring. These ones are Hickory and have mitered returns (the part that is exposed on an open staircase) so you don't see end grain.
A couple finished stair pics, again from our office:
Finally a table made by an artisan neighbor of ours. We just made the pie-shaped pieces, he put it together including an epoxy in-fill:
