Fabricating Custom Aluminum Art Frames With the TS28 Extrusion

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1 Fabricating Custom Aluminum Art Frames With the TS28 Extrusion CUTTING THE TS28 FRAME With the TS28 extrusion it will be possible to build small to medium size Art Frames (Up to 137 x at launching time) with four PVC corners for strengthening the frame. Art frames are not designed to be screwed to a wall but hung like a framed painting or poster. The flat side of the extrusion is going to be against the wall. It is a new low-cost aluminum extrusion specifically designed for building ART Frames This extruded aluminum bar is light and sturdy. The cutting could also be done using a miter box and an appropriate saw with a blade to cut through metal. A circular miter saw will give you the results. Printed graphic media can be vinyl, fabric, canvas, poplin, polyester... The target market segments are malls, banks, car dealers, hotel chains, casinos, museums, galleries, companies lobbies, board rooms, supermarkets, shops, etc The graphic will be fixed with the TS79 locking strip in the rear of the frame, so the locking bar will not be visible at all! The art piece (pictures, painting ) will be displayed frameless! By prospecting these markets you will be able to generate revenue streams during Northern America winter when exterior activities are made difficult. The extrusions are cut using a circular miter saw to get the frame sides. The frame is assembled for verifications.

2 ASSEMBLING THE TS28 ALUMINUM FRAME Four PVC corners are inserted And sides are assembled to create a corner The frame is returned, front against the table. The corner is ready for screwing self-tapping screws are used to rigidify the frame and facilitate the graphic installation. Using a bit drive to maintain the self-tapping screw. The first frame corner is ready repeat the operations with the remaining corners. Screwing your frame corners will add rigidity and it will not move during the graphic installation

3 CUTTING AND ADJUSTING THE LOCKING STRIP The most convenient way to cut the TS79 PVC locking strip is to use a cutter as shown on the picture (CBC100 - Red handles Cutter with changeable blade $24.95 on Tensioning Solutions Price list) On your cutter you will see two marks (45 o and 60 o ) Here we will need to cut just between these marks or roughly 52 o. Draw a line with a permanent ink marker. This to have a seamless joint in the corner. If you cut the TS79 at 45 o, you will get a slight gap, but remember the locking strip is inserted in the rear of the frame, so it is not VISIBLE! Firstly, cut your TS79 to the exact length and width of your frame

4 Secondly, cut the ends of the TS79 at 52 o and using a cutter remove a slanted piece of it. This will provide space to have a neat junction in the corner as shown on the picture. Here there is the comparison between two pieces of TS79. The closest one with a piece of PVC removed using a simple cutter. Install the different TS79 on the frame to check the junction at the corners.

5 INSTALLING THE GRAPHIC ON THE FRAME >> Banner Material Vinyl 13 Oz. << Position your frame on the piece of graphic Then return the graphic and the frame. Note that the screws are in front. Use a hard nylon hammer to facilitate the insertion. With this frame a rubber mallet could do the job (Do not use rubber mallet for other extrusions which are slightly tighter and necessitate a hard nylon head hammer) You should obtain some extra graphic in each corner Then cut the extra graphic with a cutter or scissors, let the graphic covers the aluminum frame angle.

6 This is the result you want to achieve in each corner. Do not worry if the locking strip junction is not perfect, because it will not be seen once hung on the wall! Remove the inside extra graphic with a cutter along the PVC locking strip. Here are two views of a corner of the Art frame only showing the graphic. The locking strip is totally hidden from a visitor view.

7 INSTALLING THE GRAPHIC ON THE FRAME >> Textiles: Canvas, Fabric, Polyester, Poplin << Proceed with textiles the same way as described for Vinyl graphics. We recommend that a textile that is not too thin in order to get the best stretching possible. There are so many different textiles, provided by many different manufacturers that the safest best is to test a piece of textile on a small frame. Contrary to the vinyl installation where we could cut the graphic close to the PVC locking strip, with textiles we recommend to leave ¾ of it all around as illustrated on the picture. These pictures of a TS28 ART frame corner show the professional rendering of the textile ART frame, up to 11.4 by 11.4.

8 Art frame realized using canvas. Art frame realized using polyester.

9 HANGING THE ART FRAME