Reclaimed Frames

xjmjx · Tue Mar 04, 2014 10:29 am

Auds1000 wrote:Nice job xjmjx! I can wait to go to garage sales when it warms up. I need to find some cool cheap frames to re-work!

Thanks man! I've got the GS itch too!

xjmjx · Thu Mar 27, 2014 6:13 pm

Original

Sandblasted

xjmjx · Thu Mar 27, 2014 6:17 pm

Frame from DAV, $5.

Sandblasted

Stained and sealed with wax and shellac

xjmjx · Thu Mar 27, 2014 6:22 pm

And my favorite that I've been able to do as of late, happy with this!

What the original looked like (bad cell pic)

Sandblasted

Stained ebony and sealed, double black mat, inner mat with gold bevel

appletree · Fri Mar 28, 2014 12:32 pm

Wow. Now I wish I would have framed it! Ha, very happy it ended in such a great frame/mat combo and home. Congrats!!

TOTM · Sun Mar 30, 2014 7:44 am

Sweet work on those xjmjx! Especially the Eryops... She looks superb & dig the grain coming through, subtle touch.

xjmjx · Tue Apr 08, 2014 10:38 am

Thanks for the comments guys!

Here's my latest, it's been done for a while, I just needed to get the glass.

Start:

Sandblasted:

Painted:

Done:

milligan · Wed Apr 09, 2014 11:28 pm

xjmjx wrote:Thanks for the comments guys!

Here's my latest, it's been done for a while, I just needed to get the glass.

All those looks great! What kind of sandblaster do you use? My workshop has a spot calling out for one

xjmjx · Mon Apr 28, 2014 11:51 am

Thanks Milligan, I'll take a look the next time I go out there to use the sand blaster and take a pic for you.

lilorphanFunkhouser · Mon Jul 07, 2014 1:40 pm

nice thread

awesome work guys.

xjmjx · Fri Jul 11, 2014 3:13 pm

So I traded my Naif for an ODiR but I had to have this image, I love it, so I got the Converge.

Here's the frame up for the Naif, reclaimed frame, chopped down and painted.

So I reclaimed the reclaimed! I sprayed the whole thing silver and then hand rubbed black acrylic on it, very stoked on the result!

srdzevon · Fri Jul 11, 2014 3:14 pm

That's a winner right there!

And congrats on the Only Death!

ceevee · Fri Jul 11, 2014 3:41 pm

xjmjx wrote:Frame from DAV

Maybe it is in here somewhere, but what is DAV? Some great work on these!

xjmjx · Fri Jul 11, 2014 3:43 pm

Thanks ceevee, I appreciate it! DAV= Disabled American Veterans, it's a "chain" of thrift stores where the proceeds benefit the organization.

poopsicle · Fri Jul 11, 2014 9:33 pm

My work owns a glass-blowing studio and they just got a brand new sand-blaster. I may have to work in some frame restoration!