Fair price to charge for stretching canvas on frame?

11 years 10 months ago #239570 by I shoot RAW
I bought a piece of art over the weekend that has been painted on canvas. I now need to find someone to stretch it onto a frame. The piece is 36x48". What would be a fair price I should expect to be charged for this? I would like to have an idea so I don't over pay. Thanks!

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11 years 10 months ago #239638 by EOS Man
I had a 24x36 stretched and they charged $75, I'd bet that one would be over $100

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11 years 10 months ago #239682 by Little Kate
Why not just get a quote from one of the Canvas companies local to where you are? :P


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11 years 10 months ago #239709 by P2CDude
Somewhere between 75-150.00 just depends on the quality of the bars they are using, and how much they know their stuff. In a project as large as this one, make sure they are using bracer bars as well as the stretcher bars. Also, make sure they are using a thickness that suits your needs.

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11 years 10 months ago #239710 by Baydream
You may try contacting a local artist or gallery. Some artists use pre-stretched canvas but others stretch their own. Perhaps one of them would do it as a "side job".

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11 years 10 months ago #239711 by P2CDude
Problem is that many times...artists use crap materials and stretching pliers. Frame shops typically use better equipment and materials. I've got amazing art from amazing world renown artists...and when you look on the back, you see that they are stretched over split 2x4's and put together with framing nails....really something that I would be considered totally unacceptable, but something you commonly find from "artists"

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11 years 10 months ago #239800 by Jim Photo

P2CDude wrote: Problem is that many times...artists use crap materials and stretching pliers. Frame shops typically use better equipment and materials. I've got amazing art from amazing world renown artists...and when you look on the back, you see that they are stretched over split 2x4's and put together with framing nails....really something that I would be considered totally unacceptable, but something you commonly find from "artists"


:agree: artist are good at painting not stretching and framing pro's. Wife and I went to a farmers market a few months back and found a wonderful piece of art we wanted, bought it and one of the first things we noticed is how horrible the back side of this photo looked. The work was horrible.


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