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neilframer

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Here's a project that we worked on today.
Leather chaps.

The client wanted the belt extended so the chaps are not centered.
We want to add a possible photo or maybe a set of antique spurs in the open area but it's still pending.

The frame is two Roma frames put together.
The top frame is regular but the outside frame is cut sideways to create a shadow box.
It is mounted on a coarse linen from Framing fabrics mounted to gator board with side strips also wrapped with the same linen.

We could make NO holes in the leather chaps so other methods of mounting were used.
NO glue and nothing invasive to the leather.
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We also stretched a canvas today... Don't Ask....:confused:
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Don't tease us, show us the front of the canvas
I can't post it today, but I will tomorrow if I can.
The canvas had to be stretched so that it can be folded down to get into a space and then unfolded so there is a hinged area in the middle.
 
Since the hinges are on the back I assume the artist painted it as a 2 piece work that is butted together. Is that correct?
 
Since the hinges are on the back I assume the artist painted it as a 2 piece work that is butted together. Is that correct?

It is painted in one piece.
Those actually aren't the hinges on the back, they are plates to be removed for rolling the canvas forward and then re-installed after it is unfolded to keep it rigid and tight.

The hinges are hidden on the front part of the bars to roll forward because it's one piece and that's the only way it can go.

I wanted to get a picture of the front but it was picked up already.

It was kind of a strange depiction of Jesus after he was removed from the cross with people around him.
Not really a well done piece, in my opinion, but tastes vary.
It looked like something that might hang in a church but it was for a man's home.
Apparently he also has a full sized mannequin seated at his dining room table as told to me by the delivery person.o_O
 
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Was it hinged to get it into his home or does he plan to take it around to multiple locations.
 
It was hinged to get it thru his doorway and into whatever room he placed it in.
He might want to take it around, I don't know.

We could have built the stretcher frame and stretched the canvas on-site but then he wouldn't be able to get it out.

I did something like that for the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver about 25 years ago.
I had to bring the stretcher bars in 4 pieces and take them up to the room where the very large canvas would be displayed.
I then had to join the bars and stretch the canvas on-site and join the frame on-site and then install the canvas in the frame.
If they ever had to move it to another spot...Oh well.

This was mostly his plan and we just executed it.
He is a little "eccentric"...

When you call him, you get his voice mail with a message about the "9/11 conspiracy " ...o_O
Hey, I'm just a framer, I'm not gonna' judge him...:cool:
 
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