A while ago Marsha was finishing her Santa needlepoint. It needed a custom frame.
This is her original design concept (Postit
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- Concept Postit
We sat down and designed it in Aspire. We contemplated several designs of lettering and frame design. I've done a lot of photography framing, but no needlepoint. Hello YouTube. We gathered all the materials, and decided on the required frame depth and dado depth on the back.
I made the frame blank from a single glue-up of Maple. I did not want to mill the holly as separate parts. The center section has been saved for other projects. The first finish pass is a 1/4" tapered ball nose. The finish came out nice.
- Finish Pass 1
The second finish is done with a 1/16" Tapered Ball nose. I did a 'Modified Rest Machining'. I drew vectors around the holly and lettering. The vectors are about 1/4" to 1/2" away from the selected areas to make sanding out the lines less noticeable.
- Rest Machining - Finish Pass 2
The finished frame was finished with Cabernet Stain (that in itself is a separate story), then a few coats of Satin finish. Framed with Plexiglass and paper backing. All archival.
- Completed frame
A fun and interesting project.
