At Master Framers, we have the ability to mill our own mouldings and create our own very custom frames to order. While we have over 300 different profile knives (shapes) to choose from, we often design new knives to use, based on drawings our customers bring to us, or from historical frames we have seen. This variety is what allows us to create special frames for your art. Our custom frames are built and finished one at a time, measured to fit precisely and to allow the proper depth for canvases or other special depth requirements. In addition, our staff can hand carve a frame or use a decorative corner or pattern from the collection of over 2000 composition molds that we own. We can also make our own molds by casting patterns from antique frames or by hand carving a design that we want to duplicate.
Our finish possibilities cover a wide spectrum as well, from natural woods, stains, paints, metal leaf and karat golds in white, yellow and hues in between. Each frame is toned to work with your artwork. Attention to detail is as important to us as it is to you.
The artist came to us with his vision for a frame, so we worked with him to create this simple but elegant frame to showcase his fantasy painting.
Here you can see the detail features on this frame. We cut the shapes out of 1/8\" MDF. He chose to do the entire finish in black to keep the frame secondary to the painting. It is an example of a very sucessful marriage of frame and painting.
A customer came to us wanting something appropriate for her 16th C. religious painting. She knew she wanted a tabernacle style frame and this is the result. We did not order this frame from an outside source. We made it in our shop in St. Paul MN. It has a stenciled pattern on the top and bottom panels and some compo ornaments at the top of the columns.
Artist Robert Olson commissioned us to create a frame for this female nude, to be a centerpiece in his studio. The understated finish with the gilded liner draws the viewer right into the painting.
We made this frame for Stephen Gjertson based on his designs for a number of his frames.This image can also be seen in the Frames for Artists page.
This frame was made for a local church for a painting by Stephen Gjertson. You can also see the image on the Frames for Artists page and the Frames for Churches page.
A smaller version of Stephen Gjertson\'s painting and frame was used for a residential setting.