Picture Frame Corner Clamp

This picture frame clamp is fixed at 90 degrees so you can't go wrong and will hold picture frame moldings up to 3 inches wide.

It leaves joints fully exposed for miter correction. Aluminum construction with steel screws. Made in the USA.

Picture Frame Corner Clamp

Professional Picture Frame Vise

These are the same professional picture frame vises in use in our picture frame shop. We offer it here, but if your just doing a few frames each year you could easily get by with the vise pictured above. These Professional picture frame vises are large beautiful molding vises, very nice. Using one of these picture frame vises you can "work" a troublesome picture frame corner to make it fit, which is more difficult to do using the small picture frame clamps above. Most people buy one or two of these vises if doing more than a couple of dozen frames a year. These vises are equipped with speed handles covered with texform which gives a soft feel and is easy on the hands. This vise will clamp any moulding up to 4 inches wide. This vise holds both pieces of the frame very securely. Most frame chops use the 4 inch vise. The super large 7 inch vise is seldom used but we carry it for those in need. It looks just like the 4 inch vise pictured above. It will clamp mouldings up to 6 1/2 inches wide.

This is the strongest professional wood glue we have ever used!

You asked for a stronger wood glue it so here it is. Specialty formulated, we've blended together a pure white, clear drying wood glue that is the absolute strongest wood glue we have ever, ever, found. It blows all the other common wood glues we have tried away including our original glue. If this glue don't hold your wood corners together for you, nothing else will. When you get disgusted with all the rest, try this...It's the best! We HIGHLY recommend this wood glue to home picture framers because using it you just won't have problems with picture frame molding corners coming loose when driving in v-nails.

This stuff is super strong. We've tried every glue on the market and none has yet been found to be anywhere near as strong as this glue. This glue is thick and creamy going on. Our glue is not the same as other wood glues, it is 10 times stronger than common wood glues. It is a bummer to get a frame all glued together, then pound a nail into it and have the frame corner come unglued. You will have trouble using the common wood glues found in hardware stores. Try our glue, it is an amazing difference. This glue sets up fast. Corners can be repositioned in 15 minutes to do the next corner. In two hours glue has reached 75% strength and frames can easily be nailed together by hand.

You don't have to coat both sides of the frame corner and you don't have to coat all of one side, just run a bead of glue on one corner. When pressed together if you have quite a bit of glue coming out the seam, you are using too much. This glue is super strong and you don't have to go over board on using it. This glue is at least 10 times stronger than Elmers Glue, or Titebond Glue for example. In fact both those glues aren't very good at all in glueing frame corners together as they aren't strong enough to hold the corners together when driving in v nails and the frames just snap apart. We encourage you to use our glue, not to sell you anything, but to make your job and life easier. As to how many frames each bottle does, our figures are based on a 1 inch wide moulding. Larger mouldings take more glue.

Professional Nail Hole and Corner Filler

This is the same nail hole filler as used by almost every professional picture framer. It works great to fill in cracks and dings on corners of picture frames. This picture frame nail hole and corner filler is not to be confused with nail hole fillers that you see in hardware stores. This is completely different. It is made for picture framers. It spreads and fills in cracks and dings perfectly. It neverdries out and can be left sitting for years. A can of this stuff will last most framers a lifetime. This filler is made in many colors and the colors can be mixed for a perfect match. These 2 oz tins last just about forever! In use by almost every picture frame shop. Combined with the Touch Up Markers below, you can repair almost any picture frame. The proper way to put a new frame together is to use the Touch Up Markers first, then the filler after the frames are glued up and nailed. The touch up markers below make an amazing difference.

Professional Nail Hole and Corner Filler
Large 2 Oz. Tins. $12.46 each

Professionals Picture Frame Touch Up Markers $5.49 each

These Professional Picture Frame Touch Up Markers are used to touch up scrapes and bruises on picture frames. They are also used to darken the edges of the picture frame corners before gluing the picture frame corners together. This gives a really professional looking corner. We use these picture frame markers on the corners of every picture frame that we put together in our shop. You don't paint the whole corner with the markers, all you do is paint the very top edge of the picture frame molding where it comes together. It makes a world of difference in the look of your picture frames. These markers will last the average homeowner a very, very long time.

The above colors are the most common. These picture frame markers are very strongly recommended by us to make your corners look professional. They are made special for picture framers to match the woods most commonly used and to blend in with out painting over. Example, regular markers such as you find in stores won't work. Those markers contain paint which paints over the picture frames, you would ruin a picture frame using regular store markers. In using these professional picture frame touch up markers to put a new picture frame together all you need to do is mark just the top edge of the frame corners. This way, after your picture frames are joined, the corner seam almost disappears. Using them makes a big difference in the looks of your finished picture frames. See our learning center for how to put picture frames together.

Rub and Buff

Rub and Buff is the original wax metallic picture frame finish. It is made using special waxes, fine metallic powders and select pigments. The unique blend gives pieces decorated with Rub and Bluff a finish that no paint can duplicate. It can be applied to any clean, dry surface as well as over previously painted surfaces. To use just apply a small amount on your fingertip and rub it evenly and thinly over any surface. Soft clothes and bristle brushes may also be used. It dries in a few seconds, then can be buffed with a soft cloth or facial tissue to achieve a hand rubbed lustrous finish. We use it to fix many frames. Long lasting 1/2 oz tube.

Rub and Buff Tubes $ 4.95 each