How to Make a Picture Frame DIY Woodworking

today we are building picture frames this video is a complete walkthrough providing tips and different ways to accomplish each step with the tools you already have in your shop formats and sizes you can keep it simple with traditional sizes 4X 6 5x7 and 8x10 they're easy to ship and do not require much material picture frames do require quite a few measurements essentially there are four sides to each frame plus the back so you have an overall width height and depth measurement also consider your border thickness meaning the thickness that you're ripping your boards down to initially I'm not going to over complicate this video by going in-depth on borders just note that if you're are going to sell custom frames professionally this measurement matters otherwise if you're just making picture frames to sell on Etsy doesn't matter as much now let's look at the individual pieces each of the four sides has an outside inside and rabbit measurement the rabbit is important because it needs to fit your glass and artwork there is an equation for this but just note that if you're using the jigs provided today you don't really lean too heavily on it this helpful website lists a bunch of different standard size frame options both in inches and metric and it dives into panoramic frames Square frames and what an asiz frame is it means that the longer side is equal to two of the shorter sides tools picture frames do not require a ton of specialty to tools I had actually built this entire picture frame only using the table saw some wood glue and some blue tape now that being said I did purchased three things for this video today I had bought two of these clamps which can be used to glue up and clamp together larger projects they also just work for picture frames so kind of a dual purpose and I had purchased this dual point driver which works a lot like a staple gun to shoot the little tags into your rabbits just to hold down the glass and your back plate inside the picture frame it's just a little more fancy than other options I'll go over later I do go over a couple different ways to build a complete picture frame using your table saw miter saw and a router the only thing you might not own is a flush cut saw I use that when I cut the splines and once you own one you'll see that you use it a lot more than you thought that you would have cutting rip your material down to its desired thickness also known as The Border measurement you can do a really thin one really thick one doesn't matter it's completely up to you rabbits it's simplest to cut the rabbits when you have a long straight piece of material to work with rather than cutting them down to size and then adding the rabbit afterwards because it gets your hand toes closer to the big fast spinny Parts rabbits can either be cut with the table saw or a router at the table saw it's easier if your rabbit's depth and width are the same set your blade height using a combination square and guys when you're cutting these rabbits on the table saw just be mindful that your fence measurement does not take into account the blade thickness or blade curve so if I'd set my fence over to 1/4 of an inch to measure out and get one4 of an inch off you can kind of see that it's actually going to be measuring between the blade and the fence and what I needed to do is incorporate that blade curf as well which is generally about an e/ of an inch so you actually want to bump your fence down a little bit more otherwise you're going to be taking off too much material and then you're going to go ahead and bump your fence over and run the blade at this direction just to avoid any Kickback you can also cut rabbits using a router handheld with a flush cut bit and that little guide attachment or you can set it up in the router table they also make a rabbiting blade which I didn't know I owned until afterwards the router table and table saw gave me much cleaner Cuts than the handheld router mainly because because you have more control over the pieces and honestly the router did not do a bad job until the very end when I was actually making my very last pass the router bit did not move I don't know if this had split out or how it got to the depth that it had but it really janked this piece up the other three pieces look perfect I don't know profiles can be simple or intricate and it is easier to cut profiles just like the rabbits while you have longer stock pieces you can cut a gentle angle on the table saw you do this by setting your table saw angle to 10 or 15° and running your board upright in there to make that cut I really hate doing those cuts so there will be no demonstration of that today I like my hand toes there is no imaginable number of router bit combinations that you can do on the outside and inside for your picture frames start out with a cheap set of router bits and begin replacing the ones that you use more often with nicer more professional bits down the road Get Jiggy With It by creating a simple jig you can achieve repeatable and accurate Cuts whichever saw you are going to be using it's best to just take a few pieces of scrap and throw together a jig so that way all of your pieces are the exact same size it's very important for picture frames soon when I open up this door I won't see birch plywood anymore because I'm going to make 6,000 Frank GES I'll be covering jigs for both the table saw and miter saw and then also the spline jig for reinforcement to use the table saw jig you'll simply clamp your board onto the left side make your first 45 degree cut and then set your measurement on the right side put your board on that right side clamp it into place make your second 45 degree cut and then repeat that process for all sides of your picture frame I did not come up with this jig and I'm not going to steal the credit from David over at Mak something it is perfectly square and all of your cuts are calculated from the inside photo measurements this is one heck of a masterpiece there's a link in the description so you guys can go watch that video with him after you finish this video I did not purchase his plans they're five bucks it's not over the top but they're not free plans the miter saw jig Works kind of in the same ways and we can actually build this one together in the shop first I measured my mersoft fence and ripped a board down to 3 in since this piece of scrap was 20 in long I drew a line at 11 in this will make sense later then I realigned the back and drew a line all the way around it so that way I knew that my mounting screws were going to be away from where the saw blade would be going through the jig you can either use a few Craig screws through the back or counter SN some drywall screws into the bottom so I came over here to show you guys how to cut this line but then then it turns out that this is going to actually hit my fence so that's no good I ended up drawing some lines on it I was going to just go ahead and trim it all off but then I noticed it's literally an eighth of an inch so I'm just going to go ahead and just rip it down on the table saw so it's about a quarter of an inch shorter then I avoid the issue altogether just know this might be an issue for you and it takes care of the fact that this piece looked really janky anyway most miter saws have holes in the fence I used two 1-in screws with two washers just to make sure that it wasn't going to pierce through my 3/4 in jig you do not have to line up your pencil lines with the saw blade at this point just as long as they are close on the opposite side I'm just using a clamp because there are no holes on the left side of my miter fence and since I'm not cutting all the way through my jig this will do just fine this jig works much like the table saw jig I showed you earlier it uses the measurement of your rabbit for the picture frame size and does not depend on your actual border thickness so if you had a thicker piece or a thinner piece it does not matter also does not matter how thick or thin your rabbit is so if you have a thinner rabbit or a thicker rabbit this jig doesn't give a hoot to set this up all that you're going to go ahead and do is take your combination squares Blade Set it to zero on this side of your saw blade Mark and then Mark your common Dimensions being 4 in 5 in 6 7 8 and 10 in this is a 20in long jig it's just a scrap piece of wood so I could show you guys how to build it since I have my big fancy jig I had built so if you had actually made it a little bit longer then you would have actually been able to fit that 10in measurement by moving your saw blade down you do eliminate some of the space to keep everything Square so I would not take any off of this side I would just go ahead and build the jig a little bit larger even if it's not centered just so you have more of your measure measurement sides another thing to note is when I Mark these I'm going to go ahead and mark them at 4 and a 16th 5 and a 16th 6 and a 16th 7 and a 16th you get it so that way I have room in there for my glass and my artwork to move around a little bit I don't want it to be super snug once those lines are marked you're going to take the other part of your combination Square not really sure what it's called and you are going to line it up so that it is perfectly aligned with that actual piece and then draw your line parallel to your saw blade cut so that one will be four and a 16th and then I will have my five and a 16th and that is why you will cut your saw blade before you start doing these measurements just so that way everything is on par to use use this jig the first thing you would do is actually flip your rabbit down cut your very first line to 45 flip him over so the rabbit is exposed and then line your inside rabbit measurement up with a line not the inside border measurement so this one here inside rabbit that'd be four and 16 that would be five and a 16 and I'd actually cut this one to 5 and an eighth and it is almost perfect with my jig lined up then you would just go ahead hold that down make your cut and then cut a second one and that is true for any piece cut your first initial 45 flip him over and then line up that rabbit measurement so that way it is perfect and that is how you would get your perfect measurement of 5 in on the inside with the jig pretty cool and to remount it on the miter saw I just go ahead and push my blade down into the jig that way I can actually line my holes up a lot easier and I know that everything is lined up how I want it to be cutting round two let's do some close-up shots of us playing with these [Music] jigs something else worth noting is that you guys are going to be wasting this much material per miter go ahead put it in front of me that is the equation that you're going to need to figure out how many board feet you need per picture frame and for standard sizes this is how much you would actually need per picture frame based off of a 2in wide border it's quite a bit but we still got four frames out of it sweet you can throw together one of these Corner jigs but they're not actually pulling your pieces together it's really only putting pressure downward on the two pieces independently so no matter how hard I push these two pieces will never get pulled together so even if you had them perfectly aligned and then clamped them it'll hold your glue in place while that dries but it's not going to strengthen your joint very much not to mention you need four of the corner things and eight clamps and you're working inside of a 4x6 area these jigs are a little better you can save some money by building them in your shop as well they snug up the corners and pivot to align everything plus they only require one clamp the simplest method to glue your picture frame is to line out some blue tape lay your pieces on their chooo train style apply your glue and then use that tape to pull your Corners together because this is ingrain to ingrain you got to think about the wood being like little straws sucking up the glue so I'm going to go ahead lit this dry for about a minute until it goes from a Milky consistency to a clear and then I'm going to apply some more glue just so that way our bond is a Little Bit Stronger if not your wood is just going to go ahead and suck up all that glue and it's not going to hold your joint very tight line up these Corners you got to be careful not to rip the tape I rip the tape like every time uh it's still holding on there for a little bit and there you go something else you'd be able to do is go ahead fold this tape down and then you could run some tape around the corners just to make sure that it is holding it as tight as possible if you guys don't want to buy a clamp now this guy was like 10 bucks at Harbor Freight and weirdly enough these are the exact same pieces on the expensive one and the not this guy was 30 bucks I why I said expensive but now we are just going to take our piece I folded down these little corner [Music] pieces just so I don't have to deal with them in a minute or two you do want the the long end to be here if not you can't really ratchet this is a pretty small platform for these clamps to be working on generally they're clamping larger tables and things but not a big deal okay so then we just snug it up one or two little clicks and then we make sure that everybody lines up and there is one picture frame right there once I do have it completely glued up I like to just bump it so it's centered in here so that way it's not putting pressure just on the bottom and it's going to try to Fan out the top or something that minimum glue on our workbench look at that Bravo then we just repeat the steps for the other guy reinforcement but gluing your frames just isn't enough to build a lasting family heirloom you will want to strengthen your miters because over time moisture heat and cold and humidity and cold and heat and taking them down and up and heat and cold will eventually cause your joints to fail but guess what you've got options no sorry nail counter not today a large number of joining options exist for picture frame corners to strengthen their bond to one another last week I posted a video on how to use and build a spline jig for your table saw which adds these elegant little cornered decor for your picture frame corners splines are generally my go-to I do like adding contrasting colors and wood types into the frames just to kind of add that otherwise you would be able to do one of these numbers where you just cut a piece of dowel use a forcer bit make a small recess glue in the Dow and once it's dried and sanded it doesn't look too bad but I just don't like having that on the back of my frames you can also dabble your miters so it's hidden within the picture frame however I found if you don't own a specific jig to get this accomplished even being off a 16th of an inch you're going to see that at the corner and on the inside rabbit of your frame Hardware my number one tip for Hardware is to purchase frames from Dollar Tree that have a glass pane and use that glass and the back plate from those frames the only catch is that your borders must be the same as the frame or it won't sit on the table the same otherwise you can Source your glass online at most home improvement stores or at craft stores to make your own backs just cut a thin quinch piece of plywood or use a thicker card stock I see a lot of people using these dowel rods instead of traditional frame stands to keep the backs in place you can purchase these turn buttons like I had used on my interlocking puzzle piece picture frames or you can pick up one of these frame tools I bought mine at Hobby Lobby it's like a staple gun but it shoots those little tabs into the rabbit hanging options include key slot holes saw Toth hangers d-rings and traditional wire there are little cheap kits that you can buy for like a buck or two just to experiment and kind of play around with each of those hopefully picture frames seem a little easier now and before you get started go ahead and

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Length: 17min 51sec (1071 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 27 2024