The Midas Touch

I know, ANOTHER post in the same day. 

As I decided to try to make a mirror for above the fireplace I looked at my stock of trims and frankly was not over impressed. A year ago I had made molds from some picture frame trim and cast them in resin but again was not impressed. 

SO

I often buy pictures from the local charity shop either for the glass or for the thin wood backing and usually the frames are not very nice industriel gold. I never chuck anything so I dismantle the frames ( throwing them on the floor at an angle usually works ).

Last night late I thought , mmmm maybe I could chop of the pretty bits into fine strips.

My first attempt I took off too little of the base wood and as the 'pretty bits' are molded onto a wood backing they just broke up into small pieces. This does necessitate a table saw as there is no other way. My table saw was about 60 euros to not impossible to buy for us. I then adjusted the guide to take off a mm of the wood along with the decorative molding and it worked. I managed to get two types of trim from one frame piece and a plainer piece from a plainer frame. Please if you do this WEAR A MASK as I am sure that the resin dust is not great for our bodies!

Here is my trove from two pieces of frame. This encourages me to look out for more frames to canibalise for other projects.

A close up of the trims. I think that they look great and will make great frames or even panelling if you have enough of the same type. You could also buy new frames to have enough of the same.

The ruler is in centimètres, the trim is nice and flat and really pretty.

This is the plainer one but again really useful for plainer picture frames. I am thrilled to have found a way to frame some pictures for the house without having to juggle with resin frames.  

I hope that this helped someone.

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