How does everyone do there own canvas stretching?

[Warren Beard]

Hi John

I do mine by hand, I bought the stretching pliers but could do just a good a job with my hands, the only down side is after you have done a few your finger tips are sore 😥 The wedges add any extra tightness to the canvas so will still stretch well.

I get my stretcher bars from here
http://www.dcmk.co.uk/index.html

cheers

Warren

[Gavin MacMillan]

https://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=33967

this should do it!

[Jason Xuereb]

That’s how I stretch mine and use corner wedges to make it drum tight.

[Steve Vallis]

quote John Wilson:

How does everyone do there own canvas stretching…. I’ve had a look online and there seems to be many ways of doing this…… I was subbing it out to a local place to me but they have just closed down without notice and I’m thinking of just doing it myself now that I have a proper workbench and a little more space

So suggestions people 😎

I use this http://www.tabmaster.co.uk/show_product.php?pid=6&item=The%20Quickmate

[Ian Johnston]

quote Steve Vallis:

quote John Wilson:

How does everyone do there own canvas stretching…. I’ve had a look online and there seems to be many ways of doing this…… I was subbing it out to a local place to me but they have just closed down without notice and I’m thinking of just doing it myself now that I have a proper workbench and a little more space

So suggestions people 😎

I use this http://www.tabmaster.co.uk/show_product.php?pid=6&item=The%20Quickmate

£299 i recon you could make that for about £29.90 😮

[John Wilson]

quote Ian Johnston:

quote Steve Vallis:

quote John Wilson:

How does everyone do there own canvas stretching…. I’ve had a look online and there seems to be many ways of doing this…… I was subbing it out to a local place to me but they have just closed down without notice and I’m thinking of just doing it myself now that I have a proper workbench and a little more space

So suggestions people 😎

I use this http://www.tabmaster.co.uk/show_product.php?pid=6&item=The%20Quickmate

£299 i recon you could make that for about £29.90 😮

Nice bit of kit I’d say but I’ve decided to just sub out my streching at the moment until I’ve got the canvas printing down to a perfection rather

How long would you leave the print before trying to strech it??

Printing with eco sol inks

Cheers again people 😎

[Jason Xuereb]

John,

You can stretch by hand. I will create a video of me stretching a canvas.

I tend to leave prints over night.

We had to do a canvas on the weekend 1.6m by 1.2m and it was a rush job.

Photo taken by 3pm had to be delivered by 6pm as a surprise.

We printed it liquid laminated it force dried it and framed it. Got there by 6.30pm and they were ecstatic with the result.

[John Wilson]

Nice work Jason

I’ve thought of liquid laminating it but not sure, I’ll be using APS’s canvas and they said that nothing will be needed to protect the print so I’ll wait and see

[David Rowland]

OMG John, really? doesn’t half of Glasgow shutdown when you walk down the street 😉

[Jason Xuereb]

I only gave that as an example. Eco solvents will scratch right off the printer. We had to liquid laminate it because we didn’t let it out gas properly before hand.

I didn’t want it ruined during delivery only gave it a light coat.