Framed and Hung

5/8/2013

It has been well over a year since I finished the Ravensburger 3,000 piece Historical World Map Puzzle. It has been almost a year since I finished framing it. On the 14th of June, I finished the venture by finally mounting it in my room.

I had another frame made shortly after the framing. The idea was to mount the second frame onto the wall and mount the framed puzzle onto that frame using metal mounting hooks. That, however, was put to halt when I realised that the second frame wasn't aligned.

Mid June, I decided to go ahead with the plan. It took a while to obtain the screws (3 trips to the local hardware store). However, the frame wasn't thick enough and the screws ruptured the wood. I changed the plan to a single bar of wood on the top instead of a whole second frame. A carpenter was working at home and I assigned him the job. Unfortunately, the bar of wood used was rotting and bent. That night, I took two pieces of teak wood and made the wall mount on my own. It was almost perfect (as always). The carpenter fixed that to some extent the next day (14th of June). I also realised that the puzzle frame just wasn't strong enough to be mounted right away. So, I used bars from the second frame to add supports. The carpenter replaced the rusty old screws on the book and added all the modifications. The mason drilled the holes for the mounts and screwed them in with machine threaded metal fittings. The frame hung (almost) perfectly. It's a bit misaligned as compared to the adjoining window frame, but it's just a matter of a degree or two.

Pictures and drawings to follow shortly.