Very unusual shape for a frame. Needs to be just the right image to work with this design. This would be too much frame for most photographs.

 

I like the design and the execution is very good but Tom may be right. I'd need to see the photo in it. It might be better suited to one of those water colours that the Japanese are famous for.

 

That would look very cool with one of those watercolors, indeed. What are you putting in there? Needs to be something of quality to match your work.

 

A photo of a train actually, it's a picture my wife really likes, but she'll probably hate the frame! Oh well, it'll work for something if she doesn't care for it with the photo she likes. It's a Christmas gift, so she knows nothing about it at this point.

 

Interesting design Frank, is it made of White Oak?

 

Yes, quarter sawn white oak that I had milled about 2 years ago. I have a whole tree of it.

 

Nice looking work. It spurred me to investigate Greene and Greene style. The frame captures it. Did you use a plan? Or did you design it yourself?

 

No plans, saw a picture on line that I liked and started sketching it up on the oak til I liked how it looked. Used another frame to get dimensions for the actual photo.

 

Is it laying on its side or did you design it that way? Very nice work with the grain. You must have looked for that board for a while!

 

The picture posted sideways, I don't know why.

 

Very nice, but then I'm partial to things with an Oriental theme. Did you M&T the bottom rail or is it just a half-lap joint?

Here's a photo with a Chinese print/painting in it, they really go together well. I've been saving the plans for this Oriental Mirror for a few years - would love to build it as it would go with my décor, but really have nowhere to hang it.

 

Top is lapped, bottom is M&T, but all are machined, very little chisle work. I have a shaper set up for tenon, and my J/P has a mortising attachment that I regularly use.

 

Jack that will look great when you get the accents added. I love Green and Green but I like their Craftsman style pieces but this Asian inspired piece is nice too. Make sure to post finished pictures.

Tom thanks for the PDF. This would make a good mirror.

 

I've never seen anything like it, Jack. I'd be proud to have nearly anything mounted in it. Nice going!

 

Jack I think that the picture will look good in the frame. It makes me think of cherry blossoms and spring which would also look good in your frame.

 

Jack I think that the picture will look good in the frame.

Totally agree.

 

My wife thinks I worked today, I did, across the road in the shop. I made 3 of these, 1 oriented in landscape and 2 in portrait. I worked in my snowy, unheated shop for 8 hours, all the while thinking how much faster and easier it would be if I had a heated shop, or even better, if it were summer. Anyways, the first one I made, (before I got the picture), is portrait, after I got the photo I could see that's not gonna work. So I set about making a landscape. I'll give both to my wife, but I also made a third as a gift for the guy who gave me his oak tree.

I brought the parts home, where it's warm, and have just completed my first glue up. Pictures to follow after the clamps are off. I used Gorilla glue for the joints, it leaked out, there'll be some cleanup on that one.

 

Here's the landscape, I was reluctant to add the ebony accents because of time, I'm really glad I did.

 

Very nice, the ebony accents really complete the design.

 

Almost done, BTW, they're not yellow, despite the pictures. 3 steps left, clean off the glue, poly, and rout out a rabbet for the glass and such.

 

They've come up nice Jack, congratulations.

 

I'm impressed nice job

 

One done! NO! I did NOT buy this from Walmart. I did buy a cheap frame that came with the glass, the mat and the back.

 

Very nice Jack. That's a very stylish alternative to the conventional square or rectangular frame.

 

She says she likes the frame!

 

That's all that counts

HJ

 

The train picture works great with the frame. Good job on the frame!

 

Agreed, the frame and train are the perfect match

 

Here is a series of, during operation, photos

 

No wonder she's happy, that looks great!