How to make photo frames

[Music] some of these boards have a little bit of cup to them uh it's not too bad but it's still there so the first thing i'm going to do actually is run them through the table saw rather than racing off to the jointer and try and flatten them out on that i'm going to take a little bit of width off each side the boards are 90 millimeters at the moment but my finished width is roughly about 60 millimeters so i do have some to come off anyway by taking a little bit of width off each side you're actually getting rid of a bit of that cupping so there's less milling work to do [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay so i've got all the pieces for the frame i'm actually making three frames all the same size so i've got my 12 pieces there all 12 are not the same thickness they are grouped into fours so each group of four is the same thickness although the frames are going to be exactly the same size i wanted to do something just slightly different with each so the first frame would probably just be standard miter joints joined together probably biscuit jointed the second frame i think i might do splines edge spines on the miters and on the third frame i'm thinking of doing just a very thin inlay so the way i'll do that is probably just run a single groove along the table saw three mill that make it three millimeters and then run a very fine inlay in that group [Music] okay so i've let the glue dry now for a couple of hours next thing to do will be just to trim these off so i'll use the bandsaw get them pretty close to the surface and then a real light pass through the thicknesser again to get them nice and flat i'm going to cut the rebate in these pieces now and what i've done is i've just looked at each piece and decided which is the face that i like the best and that would be the face obviously the front of the frame and then i put a mark where i want the rebate just so i don't get confused because it is easy to forget the rebate is nine millimeters deep and i've set my saw blade at nine millimeters i get that nine millimeters from the different dimensions of all the layers so you have two millimeters of glass and two millimeters of matte board which is four millimeters and i typically use a three mil mdf backing board so that's seven millimeters and then i've given myself just an extra two millimeters space to put in clips or nails or whatever i choose to um hold that backing board in and the width of the rebate is going to be seven millimeters um for no particular reason i just chose seven millimeters so what i've done is i've measured the width of my piece subtracted seven millimeters and i've got my fence set at that so go ahead and um cut those rebates i'm choosing to use the table saw to cut the rebates and make two or three passes over the table saw blade the only reason for that is um well there's a couple of reasons it's easier to set up than the router because it's here it's my table saw's always basically set up and the second thing is when you're working with this very old very seasoned um hardwood the timber's so dry that the grain tends to become very brittle and splintery and i think with the table saw well i'm pretty sure with the table saw i'll get less tear out if any at all than i would if i used a um a straight bit on the router [Music] okay so now it's time to cut the miters on these pieces i'm going to cut the miter on one end of each of the four pieces first and then what we'll do is take our final measurement for each piece flip them over on the sled and then cut that second miter to cut the second miter on these pieces means i also have to cut them to their final length and to work out the final length of your pieces there's just a little bit of math involved but it's not too difficult and i'll run through it now if you have a look at my little uh fantastic sketch here that i've got on my um homemade whiteboard just a quick tip if you want to make a whiteboard get yourself an old picture frame like i've got here still has the glass in it i just put a white piece of paper or white cardboard behind the glass and you've got yourself an instant whiteboard and if you use a whiteboard marker it works fantastic okay so getting back to how we work out the lengths of our pieces that inside dimension there that's the size of my glass and my backing board basically so it's 577 wide by 392 high now to get the final length of the pieces we need to add the dimension of the two side pieces now the way we do that is you take the side piece and you measure from the outside edge to the inside edge of the rebate if i measure those ones there they're 52 millimeters so what i need to do is add that measurement to each of those measurements and add it twice because we have two pieces so that's plus 52 plus 52 and just to leave ourselves a little bit of clearance room around the around the edge usually at about three millimeters which leaves you one and a half millimeters either side so if i add three millimeters and add that all up and come up with 684 so that means that the outside length of the longer pieces is millimeters and if i do the same measurement for the side piece so add 52 to that another 52 and a three and that will give me 499. which means that the outside length of the side piece is 4.99 okay so i've marked all the pieces now those measurements we just talked about i've marked them on the outside edge of these pieces so that's the long edge i used my marking knife because i wanted a very fine line at the moment i don't have facility to put stop blocks on this mitre sled that is something i'm going to think about and install later on but because it is a zero clearance sled i'm quite confident in just relying on lining up those lines with the edge of the um the slot in the sled so we'll just we'll go with that and i'll cut all these [Music] foreign i said earlier in the video that i wanted to do spline miters on one of the frames so this is it here and i don't have a splined miter jig and i wasn't going to make one up because it would delay the video too much so what i did i just made up one of my five-minute jigs that piece of melamine there that's an off cut from the zero clearance um mitre sled that i made and all i've done is i've screwed that there to this secondary piece of timber here that's sitting on top of my sled and it's just clamped down there to the sled and it's clamped so that the distance here puts that blade right at the center of the frame just draw the force ah sorry hole in there with a force in a bit so i can put a clamp on and that's basically it [Music] [Music] okay so i've got uh these three frames all glued together now looking pretty good uh next step almost the next step is just to give them a light sand and finish them off with a clear coat but before i do that i want to run the outside edge over the jointer now the reason for that is all these pieces were finished on the jointer on the inside edge and it's quite smooth but the outside edges were only finished on the table saw and although they're pretty smooth and you've got to struggle to see them there are very faint saw marks along the edges of these and it's going to be a lot easier for me just to run it over the jointer do a really really shallow cut that is easier than trying to sand those marks out because it does take a lot of effort to sand this old reclaimed hardwood so i'll just uh quickly do that and then we can get some clear coat on [Music] i wanted to make the three frames different to each other so one has the inlay on the front face and the second one has the spline miters but now this one's looking quite a bit plain so i'm going to add something to this one as well what i've decided to do is i'm going to use six mil dowels and i'm going to drill them into the front face right on the miter line there and they'll only be set in about a quarter of an inch they're just for looks and uh flush sand them flush with the surface i think that'll just add a nice little feature nothing too out there yeah just something that makes it different from the others so so well there you have it three photo frames all slightly different to each other i'm really happy with the way they turned out those photo frames are going to be christmas gifts one inch to my three boys actually

Channel: DownUnderWoodWorks

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Length: 14min 28sec (868 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 28 2016