You want to make some mitred picture frames.
What methods can you use to get a nice strong mitre joint that wont move?
For the purpose of this quiz we will assume you have cut nice accurate mitres.
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You want to make some mitred picture frames.
What methods can you use to get a nice strong mitre joint that wont move?
For the purpose of this quiz we will assume you have cut nice accurate mitres.
biscuits (and read the Triton Woodworkers Newsletter - July Edition) :D
I usually put a biscuit in each mitre (with some glue of course) and then hold it together with one hand while I shoot a few wiggle staples into it with the Bostitch MKIII wiggle gun in my other. Quick, strong and requires no clamps.
Mick
Dowel - I use 2 dowel pins for each joint. It works for me. :)
I take the piece of art to my local framer who uses a guillotine to cut very accurate mitres and then...... does something to fix it together...... then calls me to pick it up. I, having used the time to do something else I enjoy, and have to admit, can probably do better at.
I'm not going to win a prize for this answer am I?
Anthony post your pic,
If Al likes it he might donate himself as the prize!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ah, but would I win?
As for posting a pic, I have, see my avatar!
Anthony
I'd Kreg it.
G'Day Ppl;
I'n Back for a while
secret mitred dovetails, ...easy.
90mm framing gun.
Al :o
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Originally Posted by Alias Ralph
All I can think of for now...
- biscuits
- dowels
- splines (pinned or not)
- keys (centred, faced, dovetail, butterfly)
- slips
- half-laps
- dutchmen (see butterfly key)
- nails
- screws
- v-nails
- corrugated nails
- cogged wedges (the thing in the japanese video)
Depends on the size of the mouldings, if there is a large joint surface area a good quality glue by itself is good enough, a small joint area moulding needs some sort of mechanical fixing like bicki's or spline/dowels.
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Originally Posted by zenwood
Get out of it..........................
There wouldn't be any room for any timber/wood would there, with all that Hardware in there.
OK! OK! I got this one!...we already have nice mitre's right!..190mm x 45mm rough sawn (for that rustic look) coach screws in the corners then dyna bolt the whole thing to the wall ( if it's brick). If gyprock go into the next room and put an off-cut 190 x 45 with liquid nails and through bolt the whole wall, might have to get someone to hold a spanner on the other side!........Well, you didn't say how big the picture was!......
savage.
Three inch spiral nails and it ain't going nowhere. I would use a lock mitre bit on the router table.
Mark