Victorian Style Picture Frame

Victorian Style Picture Frame

This frame was designed roughly for a 13x17 painting with a 12x16 piece of acrylic panel set in the first lip, and the 13x17 painting set in the second lip, actual dimensions are:

• First Lip:

  • 40.50 x 30.50 x 0.32 cm

• Second Lip:

  • 43 x 33 x 0.48 cm

• Inside Edge:

  • 39.50 x 29.50 cm

• Outside Edge:

  • 55.50 x 45.50 cm

• Body Height:

  • 4.00 cm

• Body Width:

  • 8.00 cm

• Corners:

  • 13.75 cm long for Top Left and Bottom Right Corners

  • 11.25 cm wide for Top Left and Bottom Right Corners

  • 13.75 cm wide for Bottom Left and Top Right Corners

  • 11.25 cm long for Bottom Left and Top Right Corners

• Middle Segments:

  • 11.50 cm long for the Right Left Middle Segments

  • 14.00 cm long for the Top Bottom Middle Segments

How to Make

Note: Each piece is made to fit the channel guides in any order, and the mounted segments are unilateral, which means you can print out as many pieces and put them together in any order you desire.  

• For making the original 13x17 size frame:

1. Print all four corner pieces.

2. Print two mount style middle segments either for the short edge (Right Left for the original) or the long edge (Top Bottom for the original), depending on the orientation you wish to mount the frame.

3. If you want to be able to mount the frame in either landscape or portrait, print both the 2 Right Left  middle mount segments and the 2 Top Bottom middle mount segments.

4. Print the remaining 4 Top Bottom non-mount middle segments, and the remaining 2 Right Left non-mount middle segments.

5. If you printed 4 middle mount segments, then you would print 2 Top Bottom non-mount middle segments instead of 4. 

6. Print 2 wall mounts, these are what you fix to the wall and slide the frame onto.

7. Print 12 channel guides.

8. Once everything is printed, you can slide a channel guide into one piece, then affix another piece onto said channel guide. Repeat until the frame is put together how you want it, there is a GIF showing a quick animation on how to do what I described. 

9. The channel guides should be a tight fit and pretty secure, but I suggest adding glue inside of the channel guide slots and on the mating faces to ensure a strong hold. 

10. I then did post processing with Bondo to fill the gaps, then filler primer, then assorted paint to get the look of my final product. How my frame looked before post processing should not be how yours looks, mine combines pieces before I finalized the model, so there were mishaps and slightly poor print quality which caused the bigger seams between pieces and slight shifting. 

My Print Settings

I used:

• .1 mm layer height

• 15 percent infill

• ESUN Black PLA+

• Snug Supports on build plate only, printed the model with the bottom face even with the build plate, so supports are needed for the overhanging lips, but the details on the frame came out nicer this way for me, and the lips do not need to be pretty overhangs

• Channel guides were printed vertically at .2 mm layer height

What I bought

• 12 x 16 plexiglass from amazon: https://a.co/d/03DiERfm

• Antique Gold Rub-N-Buff

• Rustoluem Specialty Gold Spray Paint

• Rustoluem Filler Primer

• Acrylic Dark Wash

How to Scale

You can mix and match any piece:

• The corners are set lengths, but you can use the shorter Right Left Middle Segments for every middle piece, or you could have your bottom part of the frame be Right Left Middle Segment then the longer Top Bottom Middle Segment.

• Knowing the cm dimensions of each piece, the channel guides being able to join any piece together, and since the mounting brackets are unilateral, meaning they can be placed anywhere in the frame and work properly, means you can have any order of pieces to make most sizes of large frames, or at least make frames close enough to the desired size.

• Remember the Second Lip is where the photo goes, and the First lip is where the acrylic goes, however if you do not want acrylic, you can put a 12 x 16 picture into the frame where the acrylic would go instead (when printing to the original 13x17 dimensions).