{"id":14864,"date":"2023-10-31T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14864"},"modified":"2023-10-29T21:15:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T21:15:46","slug":"assembling-the-panels-first-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2023\/10\/31\/assembling-the-panels-first-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Assembling the Panels, first stage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There’s always more involved than you think, isn’t there…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had all sorts of thoughts about keeping the four panels together, but in the end the simplest solution seemed to be a large panel on the back, with screws through to the wooden frames. So my first visit was to our wonderful local framer, because I thought the sort of hardboard she uses to back her frames would be enough.<\/p>\n\n\n

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No, she said, it’s not strong enough, you need something a bit beefier. So I went to a local(ish) building supplies store that is willing to cut material to size, and they duly did so. But not quite right (fortunately, too big) so I had to go back and get them to do it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once the boards were the right size, I set out to map the frames onto the board, so as to work out where to put the holes for the screws. I got thoroughly confused and lines and more lines and planned holes and replanned holes and very nearly howled with despair on more than one occasion, but in the end, I had a Plan of where to place my screws.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Then we taped the two boards together so that one set of drilling would do (that was a very good thought of The Australian’s), and spent ages drilling those holes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the interests of having a nice looking back, not covered with a zillion lines in fibretip pen, I’ve sponged the back with two shades of gold acrylic paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ll get to the end of this eventually – I hope!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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