How To Build A Stretcher for Stretching a Canvas
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Learn how to make your own stretcher for a painting. Making a stretcher is a great woodworking project and it's a great skill to have if you're interested in making your own artwork. I'll show you how to make a 34" x 40" stretcher for a canvas painting and I use materials that are readily available at your home store. I'll provide a materials list and the design plans with dimensions on my website.
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Jon, Your video was perfect timing. My neighbor is an artist and she wants me to build her some stretchers. This has helped me to understand what she wants. Great job on your videos and your art is beautiful.
Art restorer here. The proper stretchers are connected by grooves and tenons. Tapping (or loosening) the wooden wedges (keys) embedded in the notches on the inside of the stretcher allows you to adjust the tension of the canvas. The canvas will change with changes in air humidity and temperature. The rigid stretcher may cause irreversible damage to the paint layer. Your frame is only suitable for amateur decoration.
Good tips, Jon! Looking forward to seeing how you stretch the canvas.
Great video as always. A lot of useful tips! Your artwork is awesome!
Good video Jon. Looking forward to seeing that stretcher in use.
It's not actually a stretcher if you can't expand the corners with canvas keys :P But I'm going to start building my frames like this.
Thank you for sharing your tips! I really wanted to see this video on your channel.
Oh wow! I would have never thought to use molding in this way!
Beautiful stuff, Jon. You should have weekend classes for art and woodworking. In all of your spare time 😀.
Love your art work at the end of the video,simplistic beauty🇬🇧
absolutely beautiful
Love your videos John!
Weekend project GREAT!
Brilliant as always, Thanks Jon
Nicely done, thanks for the info Jon! 👍🏻👊🏻
As an art major this video will be extremely helpful. Great video. Great teacher! Excited to see tips on canvas stretching.
Hi John. Didn’t know you were an artist love your artwork. I’m definitely going to try some myself see how it turns out. Nice video thanks 👍
Very much enjoy your videos. And also enjoy art history.Keep up the good work.
Hello Jon. Very interesting this project, congratulations once again. I accompany and inspire myself in his work. Thank you from Brazil.
Your work is so beautiful!
I like that you spent the time to show how to do the cut list
Nice work Jon! Thanks for sharing the video with us.👍😎JP
Very encouraging. Thank you so much
wow you got some really kool tools , thank you for this video.. :)
Thanks for making this video
Interesting well done big 👍👍
For larger stretchers I use brick molding for the outer frame. It already has a raised bead on one edge.
Thanks!
Canada says hello and well done.
Neversaw ahydrolic pothole jig before. Cool
Thanks
Hi Jon, I always enjoy and learn a lot from your videos. Can you use this method to mount fabric art like a cross stitched fabric piece? Thanks for all your posts.
Nice bro
Thanks for the great demo! Love the option to build with pocket screws and not needing a table saw.
Now I need the next step!... may have missed it, but can you please share the link for how to stretch the canvas?
I purchased painted canvases that were removed from the frames, and now need to re-stretch them.
Anyone who has a fancy miter station and pocket hole capabilities already has a table saw. Nice frame though. Nice work
Hi Jon: great stuff. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and time. One issue I’ve found is that it’s often hard to find straight lengths that don’t have some twist, bow or cup. What are your thoughts about using MDF instead of wood? It seems more dimensionally flat; I can imagine that it’s much heavier than a soft or hardwood board of similar dimensions, but any disadvantages other than that? Thanks
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Is there any chance of getting a tour of your home. The wainescoting and woodwork looks beautiful. My wife and I love that style and we would love to see a general tour of the home. Thanks!
You make it look so easy! You wouldn’t have a project video on how to build a canvas stretcher to a canvas which is pre-printed with the art and came with no stretcher? Curious how one would lay that out and obtain measurements and then stretch the canvas and the finished piece still look professional?!
Hey Jon you should do a video on the old Kreg Jig. How do you change for different thicknesses of wood?
You could put an air cylinder on a K4 jig and have something like the old metal one.
Jon as always a well presented project. Is the center stretcher in the center of the frame, it looks slightly off center in the video.Thanks for sharing
Great video.,.... How do you build a high grade artist easel.
could you use 1x2 instead of 1x3 boards for the beams? also, does the way you add the pocket holes prevent warping?
Seus vídeos são ótimos, uma pena que eu não entenda o idioma, rss, más consigo entender bem pelas imagens. Abraços!!!
Really great video, I've just bought a makita 2712 315mm table saw, can you recommend a blade to use for the neatest cuts, how many teeth to go for? I'm just looking up how to make them before I start, I usually get shredded edges though when using mitres as if the blades not got enough teeth
Great art. Are those prints or painted?
I'm trying to find some good info on stretcher bar joinery but everywhere I look it seems that no one knows what a "stretcher" is. If you've glued and screwed your corners together then you have no way to wedge them outwards to actually stretch the canvas out over the years. So many people seem to think that "stretcher" simply implies a wooden frame of any kind that you then stretch a canvas over. In fact it refers to a frame having the ability to actually stretch the canvas tight many years after having a canvas attached. Improper storage of paintings resulting in canvas deformity (indentations) is one of many reasons one would want the ability to stretch a canvas out. Your method here means never having that ability and so it is not a "stretcher" but simply a fixed frame.
Excellent vid. I was curious to why the perimeter edge is to high away from the frame. I am an artist & I paint using the 3 primary mediums & have never seen/used a canvas with such a high ridge. Are there benefits other than the potential "bleeding"? Very helpful to someone who may just start stretching my own canvases. Thanks.
If the canvas is touching the frame, then when you apply paint the canvas presses directly against the wood and takes more paint. The end result is a tracing of the frame on the painting. It's like making a graphite tracing of a coin on paper.
Hi Jon, why do you place the lip with the moulding? Can you just stretch the canvas over the frame regardless of the lip?
Not using the new porter cable nail guns?
What would be the alternative to using pocket hole screws?
Hey Jon, how would you adapt this design to larger stretcher sizes? Any thoughts on cross brace orientation?
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Is this a stretcher? As a professional fine art framer I see this as a stainer !
Why do you cut the lengths "heavy"? An explanation would be helpful.
DO I NEED THE COMPRESSOR KIT
gah, this stuff makes my OCD so happy. ha
Jon, what kind of moulding is that? Does it have a name? Great video!
Nevermind. You said stop moulding right in the video. I just missed it the first time!
Apologies in advance if it was mentioned in the video. I may have missed, but what type of wood is that? Select pine?
That looks like Poplar
Yes... poplar frame and pine molding
No need for a table saw, but you will need $600 worth of cabinet making tools. Hmmmmm???
Still, it is really great to see the canvas paint frame step into the modern age. I love the doorstop molding.
i may have missed it i tried watching twice...what kind of wood do you suggest?
that looks like poplar?
Jon, why do you edge ban it if you cover it with canvas. Also, in the other video, it doesn't look like molding is on the frame.
Hope I'm not being presumptuous answering for Jon, but I've built stretchers like this before. The trim keeps the canvas up and clear of the main frame so it doesn't rest on it and show through. Store bought stretchers are wedge shaped for this reason.
Except you can't key out the stretcher to tension the painting.
I am not a specialist but I think it is not a stretcher as it does not use wedges or any other mechanism to "stretch". It looks me a frame.
one flaw with this design is the side facing the canvas isn't chamfered...
Everyone pocket hole crazy lol
FYI that a strainer. Not a stretcher.
This is a strainer frame not a stretcher since it doesn't stretch.
That is not a stretcher. It is called a strainer.Stretchers have keys and bridle joints
This is a stainer my friend. Not a stretcher.
Overkill.
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