Build Your Own Canvas Frame

Your order includes the frame bars and glue dovetail keys for the corners and eye screws for mounting your canvas.

Build your own canvas frame.

All you need to purchase is the conduit and you can build your own frame. Lay out three layers of the hardboard. Install the canvas print by applying hot glue to the back corners of the print inside the frame. For the wood frame you can buy 1x2 wood at most home improvement stores.

These kits contain all the necessary components needed to join sections of 1 conduit. Give your best photo prints on canvas and paintings the treatment they deserve from start to finish. All the components needed to build your own interior wall tent frame. Kit includes adjustable frame joints end caps aluminum sleeves for making your own slip joints to join two pieces of conduit together rubber feet for the legs.

Stain and seal your frame. Lattice or 1 3 s or 1 2 s in the length of your canvas perimeter. I used 3 of my 4 ft pieces. Align the four outer trim pieces you previously cut.

What you ll need to frame a canvas. Apply wood filler to. How to build a custom sized stretched canvas step 1. Glue and nail your frame together without the canvas print inside.

Cut your frame out of the 1x2 using the canvas dimensions and a 45 degree miter cut in each corner. Steps to make diy canvas frame step 1. Lay the inner frame on top this to raise the inner frame up and create the offset that will be needed when the outer. 4 2 out of 5 stars 1 334.

When complete the glass picture and backing will be flush with the outer frame. You want to pay attention to the. Mark center of the top bottom and side cradles and the center of the top. The inner frame or structure of every canvas i create is made out of 1 2 wood and quarter round trim.

Sand all four pieces of the frame. Once i ve decided on the size that i want my canvas to be i cut four pieces of 1x2s one for each side of the canvas with a forty five degree angle at each end. I have an air powered brad nail gun that has been a wonderful investment over the last few years but you could. 2 pieces cut to 2 wide x 30 1 8 long x 1 2 deep 2 pieces cut to 2 wide x 24 1 2 long x 1 2 deep.

Make your own frame kit. Align the cradle with the frame.