Nightmare Frame

[Charles Saucier]

The Nightmare Framing

Back in the early “90’s, Picture Framing Magazine created an article titled “Nightmare on Frame Street” by Jeff Tichenor, CPF.
Framers could write in and told about the nightmare frame job in there shop. Framers could relate to this article because they at one time had a job from hell.
I would like to hear your stories about your framing nightmare
The one I can recall in my shop was the time we where framing two Crescent City Classic posters and we lost one (missed placed?). We looked in every corner of the shop, in the car, even the ice box for this poster – no luck. Someone suggested that just maybe we framed it with the first one –right- what the heck lets look. We unframed the first CCC poster –and you guessed it. In front of the one we hinged to the mat was the one we were missing. Great now we did not have to purchase another CCC poster.
The next day the frame shop down the street call and wanted to know if we had an extra CCC poster, that they had missed placed one. We had then on the speaker phone and they could hear people laughing. So we told then our story and maybe they should look in the one they had frame, 30 minutes later they called back they found the missing CCC poster.
So what was your nightmare.

Below are some on the Nightmare articles I could fine.

October 1996 page 62
Dec. 1994 page 68
April 2000 page 84
March 2000 page 92
Feb. 2000 page 84

 

[Ellen Collins MCPF]

Not so much a nightmare, but more like weird.

It surprises me how often the same framing job will have one thing after another go wrong. Spoiled mat. Then backordered frame. Then wrong mat.

We refer to it as 'snakebit' as in, "This job is now officially snakebit"

 

[John Ranes II CPF GCF]

The Nightmare stories within the pages of PFM were among the most popular read in the late 1980's-90's. Involved in the framing industry on the West Coast, Jeff was also with Nielsen-Bainbridge for a number of years, but is now in Quezon City, in the Philippines. He has lived there for a couple of years already....

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John

 

[Susan Gittlen MCPF]

"Freddy" was always the first column that I would read in PFM. I wish that he would come out of retirement, of course not making any shop visits in Holland, PA. :thumb:

 

[Harry Gaston MCPF]

That was always one of my favorites to read.

Oh and Ellen, I have an order on the table behind me right now suffering from an all out snake attack! The Sistine Ceiling was completed in less time than this order...:shame: