So…I’ve had these amazing art pieces by John Pattenden for years. I’ve always intended on trying my hand at making a frame for them, but life kept happening.
and non-proofgrade acrylic for the cover…the picture, mat and acrylic are going to be sandwiched between two pg frames, with a pg wood spacer, so the acrylic needed to be pretty thin. The stuff at Home Depot did the trick!
Because I wanted to save some of the wood in the back for future projects, and needed some more thickness for the middle of the “sandwich”, I lasered two pieces of chip board to fit in the middle.
For the front of the frame, I decided to decorate with another patent that has some meaning to me. I used the walnut plywood. The image was way too large for the engrave area of the glowforge, so I had to break up the image into four pieces (top, bottom, left and right, cut at void areas). After a few bad trials, lots of cursing, and realizing fisheye lenses and aligning by eye are not my friends, I ended up adding an x to each of the files and the wood to align everything.
I’ve been pondering picture frames a lot lately (not sure why), but your design definitely gives me some very good food for thought, which, since my wife started me on a diet yesterday, is the only food I’m apparently allowed now
Oh wow! Adding the other patent to the frame is such a nice touch for this. I thought it might look too busy when you were first describing it, but I really like it!
This is gorgeous! Love the style and personalization.
Maybe I missed something in the writeup, but how did you attach the engraved front to the rest of the frame? Did you use the holes in the top of the back and spacer, or do you use that for hanging?