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Here are some picture frames I made for Christmas gifts. The design came out of the November 2007 issue of Wood Magazine. I changed the top a little, but the basic design is the same. These are pretty easy to make, but a little aggravating to finish. All those nooks and crannys are tough to get even coverage in. At any rate I made about 10 of these things. The ones in the pics are quarter sawn oak, padauk, Australian cypress and cherry. I also made some in walnut, heart pine and red cedar. I was trying to clean out my scap pile. There are two pieces of 1/8” lexan sliding in a 1/4” plus a couple of shims worth of a groove by dado to allow for two pictures in between. The top is held in place by 1/8” dowels.
I was really surprised how well they went over. I gave one to an elderly aunt of mine and she was really tickled to have it. I had printed out some old family pictures as well as some from this years family reunion. The look on her face was priceless and really gave me a warm fuzzy. I guess that’s what Christmas is all about.
-- Carl Rast, Pelion, SC
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miles125
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posted 376 days ago
Those are really cool Carl. Make those six foot tall and you got an awesome display/room divider at a museum or theater!
-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""
relic
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posted 376 days ago
I was thinking of making a couple of these myself, they look great.
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mrtrim
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posted 376 days ago
THOSE ARE GREAT !
John Nixon
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posted 376 days ago
Nice Carl.
I posted over at the WOOD forum about the dimensions of the photo openings. The designer of the project replied that he purposely made it less 5×7 so that a 5×7 picture could be trimmed down to fit. I think I may scale it back to fit a 4×6 perfectly.
What do you think?
John
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CedarFreakCarl
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posted 376 days ago
Thanks Guys!
John: I’ve been just printing 4×6’s and dealing with the space around the edges as I was pressed for time and I could get three out of a 8 1/2×11. Another drawback is they really don’t support landcape oriented pictures. I guess that could be easily remidied, but then they wouldn’t work with portrait. Oh well. They still work pretty well like they are. I’ll have to try a trimmed down 5×7 and see what happens.
-- Carl Rast, Pelion, SC
Todd A. Clippinger
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posted 376 days ago
Nice project, nice work!
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DAN
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posted 376 days ago
good looking picture frames
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jockmike2
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posted 376 days ago
Very nice frames Carl and welcome to Lumberjacks. mike
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cajunpen
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posted 375 days ago
I really like these frames – looks like a great gift idea.
-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/
Max
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posted 375 days ago
Very nice frames, I really like all of the different woods. Great project….
-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT
Dadoo
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posted 375 days ago
KEWL!
-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!
MsDebbieP
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posted 375 days ago
fascinating – and a springboard for lots of other possibilities
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Lori
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posted 373 days ago
Those frames are beautiful. I will have to go thru my scraps and make some of them.
-- Lori
tenontim
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Those are really nice. Like MsDebbieP said, plenty of other ideas come to mind, and Lori pegged it with the scrap problem.
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