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Natural(ish) Picture Frame

Project by KnickKnack posted 255 days ago 531 views 2 times favorited 5 comments Add to Favorites Watch

I haven’t posted anything for a while – it’s not that I haven’t been busy, I just haven’t created anything very good!
We needed a picture frame, and I was just going to make some kind of “standard square thing”. But when I looked at the wood that just seemed like a terrible waste of the shape and the natural edges. Having decided on the wiggly edges and the “slide in” approach I needed a base to mount it on. I considered doing some kind “contrast thing” using a plain and flat “blocky” base, but then it occurred to me that there was no reason not to mount the 2 pieces on what was left of the “branch”, and, hell, why not at the weird natural angles! Gluing it up was a challenge.
It’ll go on the banister I posted a while ago, so we’ll put (other) pictures on both sides, which is just as well since there was no way I could decide which side looked the best.
And, yes, this is the same piece of wood I entered into the knot contest – that branch has been good to me.
The pictures really don’t do justice to the amazingly detailed patterns and sheen of the wood.
Olive finished with oil/varnish/turps.


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TreeGuy

37 posts in 263 days


posted 255 days ago

Nice job, that would look great in a log home

-- Bryan, Cleveland OH

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Max

14365 posts in 1166 days


posted 255 days ago

That is really cool. How did you do the glass or Plexiglas so the picture wouldn’t slide out the bottom?

-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT

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resonation

31 posts in 330 days


posted 254 days ago

very clever! it has a nice pattern!

-- Chris, Pennsylvania

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KnickKnack

99 posts in 459 days


posted 254 days ago

“How did you do the glass or Plexiglas so the picture wouldn’t slide out the bottom?”

There’s nothing special about the glass/picture – in fact, I bought an ultra-cheap frame for 75 euro-cents from the, eeeek, don’t flame me, Chinese shop.
The 2 slots are spaced at exactly the right width, so the glass just slides down until it reaches the base on the left hand side (of the first picture), and it simply can’t slide any more, or rotate, so it stops.

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shimmy

61 posts in 379 days


posted 252 days ago

Now that is definitely unique. Beautiful project.

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