Anyone try stretching your own canvas prints?

9 years 8 months ago #394888 by Glen Martin
I just came across  Upper Canada Stretcher Bars:   http://www.ucsart.com/   Looks like they have a few styles of bars. I'm just starting my search on doing this myself and hoping I can get some advice here on what other equipment and supplies I would need. 

While discussing this, if you have any tried and true tips on stretching your own canvas prints, that would be much appreciated too. 

Thanks guys and gals

-Glen


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9 years 8 months ago #394937 by Superman
A good staple gun will be needed

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9 years 8 months ago #395091 by Damon
Glen are you looking to do this for your own work or for clients?


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9 years 8 months ago #395253 by JD Imagery
I have a friend who does canvas stretching, so he does most of my work.  But he has nearly half his garage converted with jigs and equipment for doing this.  


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9 years 6 months ago #406021 by P2CDude
It is not terribly difficult, just difficult to do really well. If you look at most artists stretched canvas (like painter artists etc) you'll see they are done really quite poorly.

But beyond that, there are a ton of videos on line.

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