John Hall-Inspired Picture Frame

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Added on December 4, 2009

This is a very interesting take on the John Hall Frame design. Submitted by Cory in Alabama. Check it out!

I have attached some photos of my Wood Whisperer inspired, Hall replicated, Greene & Greene designed frame. I actually finished it a while ago but didn’t have a chance to get the pics off my phone to email them to you. That is my family from left to right; Paige, Carolyn (my wife), Brie, me, & Xavier.

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Bryan Huot December 4, 2009 10:00 am

Cory –
Nice job on this frame. You can definitely see the influence of the original G&G style with your own personal touch. I like how each of the sides are shaped like logs with the nubs of the branches sticking out.
Great job!
Bryan

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- Cory December 5, 2009 5:50 am
  
  Thank you. The more I thought about it the more it bacame what it was. I had several ideas and I may produce those one day but I am very happy with the way it turned out.
  
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dylder December 4, 2009 1:03 pm

Knowing what the original looked like I can see the influence. I really like the frame for the picture you chose to put in it. Was the picture part of the inspiration for the frame? Or was the frame built and the picture chosen because it fit the style?

Good work.

dw

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- Cory December 5, 2009 6:10 am
  
  Thanks DW.
  
  The picture was definitly an influence in the decision to do the frame. It was sort of a process in how it got to where it did. I had already planned on doing a frame, I don’t know why but I just wanted to build one. I thought about several options for a couple of weeks until I saw Marc’s replication of John Hall’s G&G inspired frame in one of my woodworking magazines. I had planned on building that frame but before I could get started the family & I went on vacation to Pigion Forge Tennessee. We had the photo made at my wifes urgent & persistant request. Don’t get me wrong I love and cherrish my family but, myself, I’d have rather dropped the $60 on a new blade, carving chisel, or a clamp. I’m glad we got the photo & it is in prominant display. Just another instance where I was wrong and my wife wasn’t. I knew when we got the photo that I wanted to do something rustic. My career is in architectural design so after returning home I used cad, like I do with most of my projects, and just started manipulating the design until I found what I wanted. So, I guess you could say the project grew on me.
  
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Dean December 4, 2009 4:57 pm

Wonderful interpretation of the G&G frame. I’m sure if they were alive, they would be envious.

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- Cory December 5, 2009 6:15 am
  
  Thanks Dean.
  
  I’m sure they would be. LOL! Nice thought though.
  
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zontobi December 4, 2009 7:28 pm

That’s great. Did you know which picture you were going to use before you starting building it?

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- Cory December 5, 2009 6:23 am
  
  Thanks Zontobi.
  
  The photo was the focus of the design. I went into more detail in a reply above.
  
  I had told Marc that I’d give him the design to post with the frame. I needed to refine it for public consumption because I don’t take the time to make it pretty but just enough to get what I need worked out and down on paper. Soon after I started refining the plans a local resturant commission me to build tables for them. I have been busy since. If anyone would like the plan I’d be happy to give it to you. Thanks again.
  
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  - zontobi December 6, 2009 2:24 am
    
    Thats what’s awesome about the craft. Any little idea or anything you see and bang, you can just make it your own. That’s how it is for me at least. I’ll see just a random curve somewhere on something completely not “woodworky” and be totally inspired to take that curve into a project.
    
    gahh…can’t wait to get back to the shop tonight!
    
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    - Cory December 7, 2009 6:16 pm
      
      I know what you mean. I’ll see something simple and just start thinking about it on the way home. By the time I get home the idea has changed into something completely different. 99% of the ideas I have, I never build due to time or function but it keeps the mind active.
Josh Whiting December 5, 2009 7:40 am

Wow, that is wonderful. I bet you had fun designing it. Did you have the final design ahead of time, or did you make it up as you went? Either way, you have a good eye for design.

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- Cory December 7, 2009 6:02 pm
  
  Thanks Josh,
  
  I think the best designs are the ones that grow as you work with them. I usually think about something for several days and get a concept, then take it to the laptop. Sometimes I will go as far as making design changes in the shop. That’s the good thing about being the designer and the craftsman.
  
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Spud December 6, 2009 9:00 pm

That is a great looking frame. You were really creative with the original design. I think that is what makes woodworking fun, there are a lot of great ideas out there and then we are able to adapt them to fit us and make the idea our own.

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- Cory December 7, 2009 6:07 pm
  
  Thanks Spud,
  
  That is part of what makes it fun. That’s one reason I will most likely never rely on my woodworking as a main source of income. I learned a long time ago that if you want to destroy a hobby or a passion that all you have to do is commercialize it. Not that I’m a great craftsman or don’t take the occasional commission but it is always something that I am willing to do and not have to do.
  
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Jason Young December 7, 2009 5:53 am

Very nice interpretation of the John Hall Frame. Cory, I have a similar photo of my family taken at Grandpas’s antique photo studio in Prince Edward Island, Canada and I had the same feelings when my wife wanted to drop $100 on a photo. But you know I have one in my office and one at home and I really treasure them, so much so that we went and had another one taken!

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- Cory December 7, 2009 5:58 pm
  
  I know what you mean Jason. Once I got passed the initial “Man I could do a lot with this $$” and saw the photo I knew it was worth every penny. Hopefully it will be a family treasure passed on to each generation and that someday the kicker will be that a great great grandchild will find out that his great great grandfather also made the frame. Cool!
  
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Ray Curtis December 8, 2009 12:43 am

Great Frame Cory! Really an amazing interpertation of the G&G frame. It has the spirit, yet provides a unique perspective. Nice work.

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Replacement Windows Man December 8, 2009 3:24 am

I love these frames! I had a frame made for me recently by a local frame maker in Sussex which was similar but with more pieces.

I really like the way the pieces are mismatched but fit together so nicely, it looks so natural.

My frame encases a beautiful photo of Reykjavik at night.

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nateswoodworks December 16, 2009 10:44 pm

Awesome job, I have some more frames in my future and the John Hall frame is one for sure. Beautiful family in a beautiful frame!!
Nate

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