How to make frame for mirror with own hands

How to make frame for mirror with own hands

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Before production of frame for mirror think of the place where you will hang up the creation. Do external design for your with own hand executed product so that the frame has fitted into the general decor of the room. It is possible to pick up materials for simple design in normal hardware store.

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Instruction

1. Draw on paper the sketch of future frame for mirror. Think over whether you will decorate it, for example, with the molded polymer clay flowers, shells, buttons, feathers, fabric, mosaic or you will just paint with varnish. In the latter case it is the best of all to stop the choice on corrugated platband with beautiful structure of tree that it looked through and was emphasized with transparent covering.

2. Take the measurements of mirror cloth and decide how many pieces of platbands and rails you need to get. Postpone the frame sizes on platbands and place wooden blanks in the miter box. Make cut at an angle of 45 degrees that it was possible to execute their joining at right angle. Process wooden cuts coarse-grained abrasive paper.

3. It is possible to fix mirror in frame several sposobamipervy option. Note pencil on side of platbands mirror thickness, and on reverse side depth on which the mirror will come into frame. By means of the hammer and chisel hollow grooves. Their Oshkurte.

4. The second option. Saw rail so that they could be pasted on inside of platbands. Being guided by that pencil line which corresponds to depth of calling of mirror frame, paste rails joiner's glue of PVA or "the Moment the Crystal".

5. Collect frame. Fasten it from the inside with brackets from the furniture stapler. Then make corners of plywood and screw them in frame corners self-tapping screws.

6. Decorate frame. Zashkurte all surface of platbands fine-grained abrasive paper. Now you can cover frame with varnish or paint. It is desirable to make it on both sides better to protect tree.

7. Carry out by silicone colourless sealant on the hollowed grooves or in the place of joint of rail and frame. Insert mirror and slightly press it that it has densely become stronger in frame.

8. Make fixture that the mirror could be hung up on wall. Cut two small rectangles from plywood. Fasten them self-tapping screws or screw in small hooks from reverse side of frame. Thus you fix mirror more reliably and will make basis to which the rope will fasten.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team

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