Posts: 7,421
Threads: 1
Joined: Sep 2005
The frame within a frame is called a "fillet". They are used directly against the frame and also to finish off the mat board. If it is to finish off the mat board then the mat board is not beveled or is reverse beveled.
Here is an example showing both uses.
https://st.hzcdn.com/fimgs/4d417aaf015e1...tional.jpg
Here are some images showing the fillets:
https://www.google.com/search?q=frame+fi...IQ_AUICSgC
You can buy the fillets and add them to your moldings. They would be difficult to make with standard wood working equipment due to the very small cross sections.
http://www.framing4yourself.com/shop/pro...e-fillets/
No animals were injured or killed in the production of this post.
Posts: 612
Threads: 1
Joined: Dec 2016
(02-06-2017, 02:12 PM)Cooler Wrote: The frame within a frame is called a "fillet". They are used directly against the frame and also to finish off the mat board. If it is to finish off the mat board then the mat board is not beveled or is reverse beveled.
Here is an example showing both uses.
https://st.hzcdn.com/fimgs/4d417aaf015e1...tional.jpg
Here are some images showing the fillets: https://www.google.com/search?q=frame+fi...IQ_AUICSgC
You can buy the fillets and add them to your moldings. They would be difficult to make with standard wood working equipment due to the very small cross sections.
http://www.framing4yourself.com/shop/pro...e-fillets/
Thanks for the info.
Not what I was intending to do though and it's probably the wrong terminology I'm using again. Basically what I want to do is build 2 separate frames (outer one using thicker/wider stock than the inner one) and join them together from the back leaving a 1/4"-1/2" space between the frames...kind of like a floating frame for the frame not the print and have both taper somehow inward toward the print. I don't plan on using matting for this print either...I'll let the inner frame act as the matting sort of.
It's hard to explain how I do things like this but I get an idea in my head how I see it and just start building it and it "evolves" as it's built just as the 24 X 36 frame evolved. I'm going to build a practice frame to an extent out of 2 x 4 lumber to see if the idea I have in my head will work and I'll like the end result. I'd rather make mistakes or resolve problems on junk lumber rather than 8/4 ash and Walnut I plan on using for this frame.
Posts: 6,755
Threads: 0
Joined: Aug 2001
Location: Post Falls, ID
Excellent job, Duane!
Picture frames are not the "easy" projects a lot of folks think. Your miter sled will make quick work of the cuts so all that's left is figuring out how creative you want to be...
Dave
"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyrany, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways."
