| Project by Timothy M. Shead | posted 328 days ago | 1184 views | 3 times favorited | 11 comments |  |
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My first “real” woodworking project – a floating picture frame to show-off a published magazine article. The joinery is sliding dovetails, cut with a router, with one side of the frame left unglued so the frame contents can be inserted / removed. The wood is red-oak from the local big-box home improvement warehouse. The finish is several coats of shellac.
Instead of providing a mechanism to adjust the individual pieces of glass, I added a spacer (paper towels) behind the magazine so there is enough pressure to keep gravity from pulling it down:
11 comments so far
Mark Shymanski
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posted 328 days ago
You may want to use some acid free paper as a backer for the article as UV and paper acids are terrible for preserving such articles. The paper will brown and become very brittle and the page will fade as ultraviolet light degrades the inks, some glass will inhibit the transmission of UV light.
-- ...it's rennovation time!!!
woodworm
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posted 328 days ago
Very nice project.
-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.
motthunter
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posted 328 days ago
thanks for the great idea
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Patrick Jaromin
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posted 328 days ago
I really like the use of sliding dovetails here. Nice, clean, elegant.
-- Patrick, Chicago, IL http://www.TenonAndSpline.com/blog
Steelmum
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posted 328 days ago
Very neat.
-- Berta in NC
CharlieM1958
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posted 328 days ago
Very cool!
You must have been a little nervous routing those dovetails…. there is not a whole lot of wood left on either side!
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
TNwoodchuck
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posted 328 days ago
Nicely done! I don’t know that I’ve seen sliding dovetails used in a picture frame before. Thanks for enlarging my vision – and my to-do list.
kewald
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posted 328 days ago
Great dovetails.
Please read my blog concerning framing. http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/kewald/blog/series/1127
-- Always do the Right Thing the Right Way the First Time - if you can figure out what that is! Ken, Spring Branch, TX
darryl
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posted 327 days ago
that’s a great looking frame, I like the dovetail detail.
also, congratulations on getting an article published!
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russty
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posted 325 days ago
nice job
i like a lot in fact i am going to try it
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Alan
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This is very cool. I’m going to try to make one.
-- Alan, Prince George