The Mount St. Helens piece would look a lot more visually interesting if you had a light that was more directly above it shining down in a way to create shadows and make the texture of the topography more visible. Just like a surfboard shaper uses a cross light to see the texture of a board during shaping

@confusedwhale

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking more of a backlight would work better.

@WadeSmith19

2 жыл бұрын

@@confusedwhale nah

@raekwon2609

2 жыл бұрын

@@WadeSmith19 Wade Smith we can get to you at any time, watch your step

@the_clockwork_jackass6897

Жыл бұрын

I was wondering about a light behind the board creating a "light frame", boosting it off the wall by adding maybe an orange glow around it.

@the_clockwork_jackass6897

Жыл бұрын

@@raekwon2609 wtf?

Did I really watch an old guy hanging rugs on the wall? Yes! I did, because I'm a big fan of your channel! :)

Ok, this is how much I like your channel. I watched you hand rugs on the wall. You’ve got me, and at least 50k others who watched, all hooked.

Surprisingly simple solution to an incredibly complex task.

To back the Mt St. Helen's piece, I would consider something that pulls one of the colors from the wall hangings over to that side of the wall. It would really tie the room together. 😁

I agree about the Mt St.Helens piece… maybe a fairly dark or even black frame?

Looks great, Frank. I like the color the rugs add to the space. Really appreciate how you share your thought processes.

I know they are tons of work but I missed those magical stop motions😍 Beautiful video and narration as always!

Frank thank you for your excellent work & creative presentations. An easy & effective method to 'polish' plexi edges is to touch it with flame. Best regards

I like the monochrome of the St. Helens piece against the wall. But, it occurs to me… if you want to set it off from the wall a little more, you could backlight it. Run a strip of LEDs around the back surface of the piece. Could even sneak power through the wall box for the intercom that’s conveniently already there to avoid having visible cords…

@starlight55971

2 жыл бұрын

Ooo, maybe even a menacing red LED

@lekoman

2 жыл бұрын

@@starlight55971 Ooo!! Connect to an Arduino that monitors the seismic status of St Helens and change the color based on how close to erupting it is!

your cats are gonna love playing with those lower tassels 😀

Cute animation sequence....was so eager it started self assembly ❤

Loved the kitty comment!! Another awesome video!! Thank you!!

great solution Frank. The rugs look great in that location. Now you can only hope that the cats do not use them for a scratching device. As always thank you for the wonderful content.

Beautiful job Frank. Again, I am envious of your attention to detail and depth you give to each project. Make On my Friend. Maker 238

You are much more than a woodworker. The designer and architect in you is fascinating. That’s why I love watching. Thank you.

A really good mini-project, Frank.

Curtain hook hangers work perfect for these kinds of rugs. Simple. Cheap. No damage. Completely hidden.

Those rugs are beautiful, and they are hung perfectly!

It looks very nice. That room looks cozy.

Nice narration-to-live surprise at the beginning! Love these small jokes 😃

I had a larger rug to hang awhile ago, and used a carpet tack strip. Screwed it to the wall, and the tacks held the rug without damaging it.

@kyrg

2 жыл бұрын

I have several Navajo rugs and used the track strip method s well.

The rugs really add a nice pop of color in the all-wood space. By the way, the word you're looking for is fringe.

this is a very comfy room!

Nicely done Frank. 👍👍Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂

Looks Great!

Love this! Thank you for sharing, Frank.

Looks good with the tastle edges up!

I always enjoy your stop-motion work. The small rugs on the wall are perfect for the room.

Suggestion for the switch void: a wall-mounted low voltage wireless dimmer for some LED accent lighting in the shelving. They’re designed for that space so it would fit perfectly, and Frank could make a switch plate out of a contrasting or otherwise suitable wood. With a 10 year battery life he could just install it and forgot it. Just a thought.

Those rugs really tie the room together

I had an art teacher who collected and made wool tapestries. He would mount carpet tack strips on the wall and then he would hang the tapestry off of the strips. You couldn’t see it. The tacks would hook into the tapestry itself and made it look like it was floating

my blankets with tastles, i hang them over a rod. the benefit is that you can see both sets of tastles hanging down, and see a bit of the behind layer, adding a neat effect

I like how you lined up the bolts with the v groove in the T and G.

Beautiful and the den's wood- tone centric palette receives a needed spectrum of colors from these beautiful blankets. My $0.02.

If you take a torch to the edge of the acrylic and just “kiss” it with the flame, it will give you that polished look you are going for.

Your house is so cool, would love a brief tour of everything you've done over the years

Nice work making them so discrete! I wonder if you could use the light switch hole as a switch for some LED's that are mounted behind the Mt St Helens pic - This would kind of frame it in light, rather than a more traditional frame perhaps.

The cat in the end approved the project and sold it to the viewers

As usual a beautiful job Frank, may I suggest another idea for connecting the two pieces together, on the back piece of plexiglass you could drill and tap it. Acrylic sheeting holds thread’s very well.

I can FEEL a frame in out future! !! !!!

They came together real well and so is your room. I think the globe could still be positioned there just fine without looking cluttered. I think the globe is really a nice centerpiece and really should have a nice visible position in the room.

I look forward to the security cam footage of the kittens climbing up the rugs.

Wow! First time seeing your channel & it was great! You have a lot of creative ideas, the skills required, & the perfect workshop in which to execute them! Love the small rug hanging technique 👍🏻🤗👏🏻!! I would frame your beautiful Mt Saint Helens in order to have you eyes focus directly into the beautiful picture! The nice wooden panels of the wall would then be complimentary instead of blending into the picture!!

Cat / Meow. Frank, your subscriptions should soar.

With that speaker behind the Mount St. Helens piece, you could snake a low voltage power line out of it and power LEDs that would glow behind the piece and give it a "light frame."

Use carpet smooth edge that holds down carpet to floor to give it a nice edge. Its the board with all the nails in it, I’ve hung all my carpets and wall hanging with it the last 30 years. If I could post a picture I would have. I have 2.5 meter 2. 1/2 yard carpets on walls hung with smooth edge. Regards. Mick.

I have a larger rug that we mounted on the wall, it hangs from a carpet strip that acts as the hanger. Works great, that would be a lot harder as yours are so light. Charles

Regarding Mt. St. Helens, maybe make a deep frame that lights it from the top and left side in order to highlight the depth of the piece.

Art history/museum/textile nerd here... Watch the fringe very carefully. Most warp threads (the ends of which form the fringe) are very strong, but fringe is not generally expected to support the weight of the textile it's part of.

I like the 4 wall hangings--they are lovely, and also add a splash of color to the walls. I think a contrasting border (frame?) around the 'Mount Saint Helens' piece would be beneficial, as it's hung on that 'wood' wall, and it almost blends into the wall to a certain degree [unless you are going for a really subtle effect].

Really dig the invisible frames

Френк классный. Спасибо за видео.

I know this project is done, but if you ever want to upgrade in the future, they do make clear-ish Acrylic Plastic Screws/Bolts, as well as matching clear nuts and washers. They are obviously not strong enough to hold up a house, but for a project like this they would be perfect. They would much less visible than the brass. You can buy them online or my local plastics dealer also has bins of them.

I use a lot of blue tape and super glue for work holding on my cnc router. NYC cnc has a great video a out it. They use the method to machine metal often.

How about putting together a pulley system that adjusts the position of the Mt St Helens piece -- and feed the cables through the conduit leading to the old light switch that needs to be covered up? Instead of covering it up, you can have the crank handle that drives the pulleys come out there. Kind of like a secret "switch".

I like the plexiglass holders. If the brass screws are too noticeable or distracting you can get clear acrylic screws and nuts to clamp them together. They don't look as clear as the rest of the plexiglass but should be less noticeable than the brass. That was a neat effect where you and your clones held all the pieces on the wall at the same time. I need to get myself a couple clones to help me with stuff

If you like suggestions. I would put some LED lights behind the St. Helens piece to emphasize it floating in front of the wall. Some battery lights so that you wouldn't need wires. Maybe route wires together with the speaker wires.

I'd put a dramatic spotlight on the Mt. St. Helens piece to show off the topography and bring it off the wall

After a bit of sanding, you can scrape the edge of the plexi with the back side of a hack saw blade to "polish" the plexi edge fairly quickly

I live in a mid-century modern with all the original fixtures, not unlike your own home. I also collect native American textiles, I think I have experimented with almost every variant out there. I came to comment because the site you are putting them up is virtually identical to a wall in my own home where I was hanging very similar rugs. The slightly pastel tones would be dwarfed by the colors in the fir paneling. I experimented with shadow boxes, pieces of matting, many different approaches. I ended up getting inspired by a display of kimonos that came through the Seattle museum. These were often displayed on a bamboo Pole, this is quite nice because it feels very organic but is straight enough to prevent wrinkles from forming. So this is basically what I did. What really made the difference though was making my own rod brackets that allowed the rod to sit about two and a half inches in front of the wall. This allows Shadow lines to form and change throughout the day. Everything I was trying to achieve with matting was achieved with this much simpler method. I have no doubt you will figure out something clever that is excellent, just wanted to offer my two cents

@jpsimon206

2 жыл бұрын

For the record, I did try polycarbonate the same way you did. Virtually the whole South Wall of my house is glass and the polycarbonate yellowed in just two years. I went back and bought polycarbonate had a pretty shocking price that supposedly had UV inhibitors. I then discovered that when you have a Mastiff puppy, every surface gets coated with slobber so regularly that you just start to avoid buying anything with a gloss finish, haha. I doubt you will have problems with yellowing though, it's a daylight basement, no?

I feel like over time and the small amount of movement will rip the tassels off. I think that clamping onto the meat of the carpet itself a bit so it's holding onto something substantial. And/or putting a radius on the inside edges so the tassels are not rubbing against a sharp edge.

I would suggest no frame for the Mt Saint Helens piece. And the four fabric pieces need to be closer together, I think the gap between them is a little too large. Thanks, Frank for all your hard work, I really enjoy it.

I've polished the edges of acrylic without heat, thismay sound weird, but it worked I happen to have 'valve grinding compound', the stuff used for cars Start with sanding to a fine grit, use coarse compound, then use fine compound, finally i used a chrome polishing compound (big block like soap) on a polising wheel

I've had good luck cleaning up the cut edges of plexi using a well sharpened hand plane. The other thought I had was magnets.

Using plywood for the Mt St Helens might make it more interesting. The result should look like a topographic map. For the hole on the wall, you may look at some night light that fits in a junction box, if you still have the wires in the hole. Those night lights are functional, and do not look out of place.

Looks great, Frank. Obviously cat approved. Bill

I would've considered "framing" each rug using glass that reflects light to protect them from ultra violet light damage and dust. Also installing your blade in backwards works well for cutting plastics.

Oh you should make some sort of fake light switch that has a minute room behind it or storage for something tiny!

The Mount Saint Helens piece is beautiful but in my opinion needs to be hung on something besides wood paneling. With dark frame and matting it would help significantly, but all of those pink and peach tones get washed out by the dog fir. Maybe you have a piece of art elsewhere in the house on drywall that would swap well with that piece

When I hung a rug on our wall, I just nailed through the rug. Done. Looks great. lol

make a tiny diorama for the light switch hole!

Yeahhhhh....the mount st. helens piece DEFINITELY needs some kind of frame or backing piece to visually separate it from the wall. Just some solid color like black or white as a border, maybe an inch thick.

You could try nylon fasteners on the tassel holders so they blend in more.

Frank, I always wonder whether you have a set of files that encompass your various chuckles, and you simply edit in the appropriate chuckles at the appropriate moments.

I'd be fitting a switch / "useless box" in that space, just something to entertain :)

Can we get a shot of that drawbridge? Never mind, I found the video. That was fun.

I think the Mt St Helens piece would benefit from a down light so that you could see the contours of the landscape with light and shadow.

FYI - I hang my 82"x54" Navajo Chief rugs, that weigh about 12 lbs each, by taking 2" x 1/4" wood slats, mounting Velcro, hook side only on them and screwing them to the wall. Then I just take the rug and push it on to the velcro hooks and it stays up until you take it down.... very easy, takes 10 min to do.

LED tape light inset behind the mt st. Hellens would look great

An LED back light would look nice behind the Mt. St. Helens piece...

Idea for old light switch: Thumb print or iris scan (that does nothing other than beep) to open door. Hahaha...

Perhaps a white matting or surround for the Mt St Helen’s piece would help accentuate it from the T&G siding

You could add a feu led on the backside of the st-helen pice... just to give it a "glowframe" ?

Could put a battery powered button for some sort of home-automation in the light switch hole next to the door.

Thanks Frank. For 8 pieces of plexiglass I would have done it like you as well and minimize CNC just given how small the project is.

The invisible frames really work well. For the old light switch hole, would making a small elaborate/decorative vintage/antique switch of a small locate critter be suitable? Maybe a iridescent lizard or salamander?

@barnabyjones8333

2 жыл бұрын

Good idea! And, if there's still power in that box, maybe a small light to light the critter from behind?

@indie825

2 жыл бұрын

@@barnabyjones8333 That would be so cool!

@aaronbegg3827

2 жыл бұрын

A yin-yang of both their cats?

I wonder what it might look like instead of plexiglass, using the bristles from a slicker brush for dogs. The bristles are the really tiny ones maybe 1/4" to 1/2" in length that are almost like the rough part of velcro.

Комментарий в поддержку ролика и канала, а также труда мастера.

Video idea: do some sort of da vinci style machine, perhaps using his techniques to solve a problem you have. Or just build something he designed or some other classical or maybe industrial revolution era machine. a loom would be one possibility

I think the Mount St. Helens piece needs a boundary, a frame to offset it from this wall. If you hang it on a white wall (or any other solid colour), then it is fine as is. You might put it on top of a back-plate rather than adding a frame, just some thin multiplex that you paint. How wide? it may need quite a bit, up to 10 cm?

@rachelmarie8011

2 жыл бұрын

I personally love the wood on wood.

Totally needs a black frame for contrast, make it out of ebony or some super dark wood, like katalox or something

I wonder what museums do to display such pieces. I presume that ambient humidity and gravity might warp the fabric over time. Maybe there is some sort of conservation grade adhesive that can be used on the back of the fabric?

Re Mt. St Helens work. It needs light from below to show all the contours.

I'm kind of surprised you didn't make pictures of glass screws and nuts good job though

Frank are those Navajo or Aztec designs, your cherry wood comb to kitchen fork was a worth a giggle

You could find a place for that globe at my house. I could even offer some remittance for it.

For where that light switch was, make a blank plate for it out of wood to tie it all together.

I think we have a bigger problem on our hands here. Frank has clearly discovered a way to multiply himself. It’s obvious what this means…. More Content!

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