Sunday, December 22, 2024

Maple Picture Frame

                                                                                            (C) 2024 Dale DiMauro
 

Recently, I made this maple picture frame at a local workshop at the hatchspace in downtown Brattleboro, VT. It has a spline in the corners to strengthen the miter joinery. This frame-making experience led me to join the hatchspace with their promotional offer. They have four floors of tools, work stations and spaces.

The hatchspace has a machine that makes frame profile stock out of your wood. This is a machine I want to learn more about. In addition, I have a corner joiner at home which I want to put to good use this Winter.

So there is a lot to learn about for me regarding frame-making. In watercolor that also includes cutting glass and mats and assembling this sandwich all as one unit.

I apologize for the glare in the upper right of the image. I tried to use the cropping/red eye software to minimize or eliminate this glare but it didn't take me as far as I would like too. However, I do think the watercolor looks pretty good within this frame.

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