Timeline for Corner assembly techniques for wood strips (for canvas frame), without complex equipment
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| Apr 28, 2023 at 21:42 | history | edited | Basj | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 28, 2023 at 21:33 | answer | added | Graphus | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 28, 2023 at 19:35 | comment | added | Basj | @Graphus Please post this as an answer with all this information + the picture, it will be useful for future reference! And thanks for the welcoming words! | |
| Apr 28, 2023 at 16:07 | comment | added | Graphus | Here's the best picture I could find quickly showing all the features of the corners joints on stretcher frames. While this can absolutely be done by hand, there's just no way to efficiently do it as an ongoing thing using hand tools. And for the newbie or inexperienced woodworker it could be considered nearly impossible to product to the require accuracy (since every single corner must be good for the frame not to distort). | |
| Apr 28, 2023 at 16:00 | comment | added | Graphus | I want to note that that none of the pictured joints are used in what I would term 'proper' framing for stretched canvases, emphasis on the word stretched. With a fixed frame obviously you can stretch the canvas firmly onto it at the beginning, but most (>99%) canvases are natural fibre so, like wood, they respond to changes in environmental conditions to some degree (an effect magnified if a protein glue is used for sizing please note). Hence the conventional stretcher frame: with a pair of wedges at all four corners, to re-establish tension if/when the canvas gets floppy or actually sags. | |
| Apr 28, 2023 at 15:50 | comment | added | Graphus | Hi, welcome to StackExchange. It would be helpful for you to list the tools you do have, and whether you will be exclusively buying in the wooden strips to make the frame elements from. Without that you have to do some fairly major processing of even the basic building blocks, which is not easy for someone to do without a full workshop at their disposal. It can be done exclusively using hand tools, using a very basic temporary setup that might be attached to a dining table, but the larger the frames you build the more and more impractical this becomes. | |
| Apr 28, 2023 at 13:05 | answer | added | Ashlar♦ | timeline score: 5 | |
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| S Apr 28, 2023 at 10:00 | history | asked | Basj | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
