This week’s news from our outside broadcast unit brings you a framing story with a difference, and in particular a review of a new (to us) woodworking tool – the pocket hole jig. As many of you will know, I am able to leave the picture framing to Mark these days and spend more time on ‘other projects’, albeit being in and out of the Uckfield Framing Company workshop on a regular basis.
This week we completed one of our more unusual projects for a customer who had a large and colourful canvas by Robert Oxley that needed protecting from the rough-and-tumble of family life.
However this was to be achieved, it needed to be sympathetic to both the artwork and the surrounding decor.
Funny how things go. You don’t see something for months on end, and then three arrive on the same day! In this case the “something” was papyrus scrolls, bought by two different customers during their various holidays to Egypt.
Last week a customer brought in a collection of items relating to events of fifty years ago: the Apollo 14 moon landing.
Before Christmas a customer brought in an innocuous-looking shopping bag, with the request that the contents be framed. Little did we suspect what a large frame that would end up being!
Most of our work is under wraps this close to Christmas, so some interesting projects will have to wait to be shared with you next year. We are however allowed to show our recent work on two very different display cases, each containing highly personal memories.The first commemorates a parachute regiment survivor of the ill fated WW2 operation Market Garden in the Battle of Arnhem in 1944. A few items of military regalia rescued from safe-keeping tucked away in a drawer become a prominent and lasting memorial. Something to be proud of.
Many of us may have things tucked away that we buy, or are given, but never quite get around to removing from the box. But recently we have had a lot of customers that have been tidying up and found a long-forgotten cardboard tube which holds unseen treasure. “I’ve had this for years”, they may say, “and decided it was high time to do something with it”. We then have the pleasure of extracting the roll of paper from the tube and unfurling it to reveal what has lain hidden for so long.
In only his third week on the new job, Mark has been thrown into the woodwork shop, learning to use machinery from the circular saw, and planer/thicknesser to a biscuit jointer and router table. And I’m very pleased to report he is taking it all in his stride! We couldn’t say no to a rush job that entailed making menu boxes for a restaurant chain, as well as a fascia and hanging signs. This meant a delivery of raw materials, followed swiftly by machining it to size. This is today’s view of the project as Mark begins to glue together […]
In spite of their diminutive size and mouse like appearance, bats tend to get a bad press, especially at this time of year. The approach of Halloween tends to make us think of the negative aspects of animals like bats and spiders, casting them as fearful creatures of the night! In reality of course, there are only 3 species of ‘vampire’ bat – and these suck the blood of cattle in South America, posing no danger to humans.
We only have time for a short story this week as we’re so busy, but wanted to show off a couple of frames we made for an amazing young lady in Wales. Not that we’ve met her, but we’ve heard a bit from her proud Mum.
Quite the achiever, her daughter has played football twice for her country, hence the two caps, and used to be a world champion break dancer too no less!
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