CORDS AND RINGS If the picture is to be hung, small rings are screwed in at the back. The position of these rings is shown in Fig. 416. The cord is passed through both rings, and the two ends tied together at the back, as shown, when the length of the cord may be adjusted as desired. For heavy frames, stout picture wire is sometimes preferred. Frames intended for photographic exhibi tions are seldom hung with cords and rings, but arc provided with a pair of moulding this time being placed against the left-hand cut of the block and sawn through as before. The other three sides of the frame arc cut in the same way.
Tnnrmisa THE MITRES.
The moulding is placed on the proper side of the shooting-board (see Fig. 419). and held firmly with one hand. The jack plane, lying on its sick in the rebated por tion of the shooting-board, is then pitshed mirror plates (see Fig. 41;); these are screwed to the back of the frame, the pic ture being fastened in position by means of small nails or screws driven through the outside holes in the mirror plates.
FRAM E-HAKING.—CliTTING MOULDING Frame-making is by no means difficult. The tools required are a mitre-block (Fig. -11S), a mitre-shoot or shooting-board (Fig. -119), a tenon saw. and a jack plane. The moulding is placed on the mitre-block face down, with the rebate to the front ; the tenon saw is then placed in the right-hand cut of the block and the moulding sawn at an angle of 45w. The length is next measured from the back of the rebate, allowing about in. for cleaning off, the with the other hand against the mitred edge of the moulding, so as to take off a thin shaving. The opposite mitre is treated in the same fashion on the other side of the shooting-board, the plane, of course, being held in the other hand. It should be seen that the corresponding or opposite pieces of the frame are exactly equal in length.