Framers nyc11/18/2023 ![]() I have learned quite a bit from trade shows. So for those who are new, DO go to trade shows, DO take some classes (in addition to other learning), DO ask questions. But that is totally not what I do, nor is my customer base interested in. You have some beautiful frames on your site. I need to learn more about products for my niche. When I go to trade shows, I know exactly where I am and what I need to do. I took a look at your website, and my niche is in a different part of the spectrum. But then I realized that it doesn't make me a bad framer.ĭoes that make me a bad framer? Absolutely not. I started to feel bad too, because I couldn't tell you the difference from metal leaf and gold leaf. I read your post, and I thought you made a lot of assumptions. I didn't know any better then, but it got me started in a life (not just a job!) that I have a passion and love for, am darn good at, and have done it nearly half my life now. ![]() If it was stupid that I did it that way, so be it. ![]() And most people here, Cornel, are actually helpful! But I did have Paul Frederick to call, sometimes in a panic with "what do I do now?" and he always helped. What framing school did for me was help me, as a gross beginner, and point me to the resources to continue the education and hands-on afterward, and provide a connection with some other framers. If you have time to work for someone else, and can find someone who is willing to teach you and not have a problem that you may someday be their competitor, that's great, but not all of us have or have had the luxury of doing it that way. Much has happened since then, the framing industry has changed enourmously, and I'm back in my own shop after several years of working for other frame shop owners, and that in itself was difficult. ![]() I went to Paul Frederick's Picture Framing Academy, opened my first frame shop in my in-laws' furniture store, successfully for years,, until family issues forced me to close and move away. I took a one-day mat-cutting workshop, walked into a frame shop for matboard and fell in love with framing. You'll be amazed at how many basic and sub-basic topics had been raised and debated over time (over and over again) on this forum (which means that not many freshman framers went to trade shows or took classes before sitting cluelessly in front of a mat, wondering how to save face and limit the damage. Stay in touch with other framers and share your knowledge/ignorance with them. There is no substitute for listening, watching, learning to do it yourself (under supervision) till you get perfect, observing, (re)thinking, trying new ways in anticipation of the final result. There are enough many framers who think they master one aspect of framing well enough to teach others how to do it or what that aspect is about. ![]() There is no such thing as formal Framing School that would teach and qualify its students to become picture framers. Later on you'll take classes to enlarge your horizons or to hone some useful skills that don't get much oil at your working place. You first learn as much as possible by way of working (for pay or for free) in a real framing shop. That is to put the horses behind the wagon. I wish I knew one single grumbler who did it himself the way we preach you here. Unless you are loaded and have much time to kill, going to trade shows and paying to take introductory classes, in a few dozens different areas, is the stupidest way of learning to frame. ![]()
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