Over Easter,I made this Oakley picture frame.
First of all, we have a regular Ikea 5" by 7" wooden picture frame;


Then,I bought a pack of regular Domehead brass tacks;


Then,I just gently tapped in the tacks to the frame;


I put some wood filler in the joins of the frame(looks a real mess)


Then lightly rubbed down the frame,and applyed 2 coats of silver spray paint;

Put in a custom image,and there you have it.
What do you think?


Lee Silver (banarno - 3/29/2005 4:38:15 PM)
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Very cool, nice way to spuce up the Collection.

Dann Thombs (Dann - 3/29/2005 11:45:33 AM)
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Nice work, Lee! A low-cost alternative to the "official" aluminum stuff. Good call using the dome-head tacks. You could make all sorts of faux-riveted-aluminum stuff out of wood with those. I think you're onto something here...

Ed Chiu (eddyc - 3/29/2005 11:51:34 AM)
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Lee! nice one, I had the same idea as I wanted a frame to make a mirror out of for my loft, I actually won one on ebay a while back, but the guy couldnt ship it from the us to the uk, don't know why, said it was over the dimensions or something :(, so i got a refund!!

I want to make a leather sofa like the ones pictured in the ostores and on the old site headers, so i figured big peices of four by two with coach bolts driven in, and some big speaker bass ducts cut into the side, a bit of mdf and a few cans of paint and that'll be that...

Glad to see you beat me to it!!

Darren Taylor (rolyatnerrad - 3/29/2005 12:52:29 PM)
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Very cool lee,
you should do another one but next time put tons more tacks in and place them randomly that will look amazing.

Alexis Watkins (LEX7 - 3/30/2005 12:46:03 AM)
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Very cool mate! You're making me think a few more for things I can be doing to go with my shelves for some of my Oakley postcards and the like.

Phil Barket (kingphilbert - 3/30/2005 9:39:39 AM)
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anyone from the Uk know where to get frames that'll fit round the posters???

steve coulson (fitguy - 3/31/2005 4:20:40 AM)
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