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Summary: How to create shutter designs for a personalized picture frame; get expert tips from masters in woodworking and framing in this free instructional video.
John and Kathleen Mudersbach have been in the framing business for 40 years. Their son Larry and daughter Debbie Reeves joined their business in Cottonwood, Arizona at 541 North Main...read more
"On behalf of Expert Village, I'm Debbie and this is Woody and we're here to tell you about personalizing your picture frames. So another thing that you can do is, maybe you've taken a photograph or even a calendar that you might have that you just love that little picture, but what do you do with it? Well what you can do with it are something like these two pieces here. Where we've actually cut out shutters in the matting. All of these little tiny cuts are all hand drawn and hand cut. And it makes them, again, unique. So, there might be many people who have seen this picture but they will never see this picture framed just like this because, again, it's a one of a kind thing. They have computer mat cutters out there today that might do something similar, but we do it, we hand design it and hand cut for each individual piece. And then these frames, these are wonderful frames from Italy and it almost looks like well, like little shutters. And so I, the whole thing becomes one. The frame finishes the matting. You wouldn't want to put a frame that didn't look very good because then it destroys everything. So it all has to become a package. You want the frame and the matting and the designs all to work together to make a beautiful picture."