Blocks get framed
The puzzle blocks are all a wee bit different sizes and framing them needed to be a custom job. After several trips to the home improvement store, I decided on a simple non-obtrusive and natural color molding to properly dress up the puzzle blocks.
A few hundred dollars worth of molding, two bottles of wood glue, a can of polyurethane and two weeks later, all the blocks are properly encased in their frames and ready for the show!
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| Simple pine molding with a generous "back-lip" to hold the blocks together |
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| A Great Cairn block gets ready for framing |
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| Stole my husband's miter-saw for the job (I gave it back later) a necessity for perfect mitered corners |
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| A band clamp with reinforced corners surrounds the entire frame quick-grip clamps hold the frame against the wood block |
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| The first puzzle all framed up |
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| And there they are! All 14 blocks ready for the show |
This project is funded, in part, by a grant from the Nevada Arts Council, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
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