Category: Stories

What a fun day at the shop! There is nothing like framing something out of the ordinary to excite us. We were asked to match an existing framed guitar so the design was a no brainer. This was no run of the mill guitar, this one was signed by Coldplay band members. We LOVE all things musical so were ready to make this collector’s guitar look fantastic. First we had to figure out how to mount the guitar so it could be taken out of the acrylic box and played if so desired. We definitely wanted the mount to be reversible. Problem solved by attaching an acrylic clip integrated into the strap holders on the guitar over the fabric mounted to the box. Polished and cleaned all of the parts and we were ready to finish the assembly. 

They say that every picture tells a story and this picture is no exception. The story behind this frame job spans 3 generations.

As Jeannie put it ” When I was a little girl, my Mom would put me on the counter and let me to sift flour. My earliest memory of this is from the age of 2. It has been the same with my boys. As long as they could reach the counter or sit on the counter, they could get flour all over, I don’t care about the mess because this is a tradition. And the tradition starts in the middle of November, once a week until Christmas. God forbid you should ask about making them in July! According to my Mom you can’t make them any other time of year. You make them in a specific way. You roll them into little snakes, cut them into an exact size, and place them cut side down on a cookie sheet. Sometime my boys would get into little squabbles and they’d reach over and smash each others cookies right before they were to go onto the cookie sheet. They have wonderful memories of that! Not only do you have to make them in a certain way, but they are eaten is a certain way as well. You have a plate with a mug in the middle, with the Pepper Nuts all along the edge and you don’t dip them, they are NEVER dipped!  Instead you have your spoon and you put your Pepper Nut in and just before they sink you snag ’em! You can see in the frame that there is a picture of the 3 of us at the top, the recipe in the middle and on the bottom a picture of each of the boys making Pepper Nuts.”

 

Well, this one takes the cake for the longest sized project in the history of Mount-N-Frame.  We were enlisted to stretch and frame a 14 foot canvas which is a task taking precision and a lot of hand strength! Assembling the stretcher bars was akin to putting a puzzle together. Most framing stock is 10 feet long and this requiring bridging that 4 foot gap with overlapping pieces and lots of cross braces for support. Although part of me was intimidated seeing something I had not encountered in over 35 years of framing, it was pretty fun. Here is a step by step photo essay including the customers reaction.

 

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