FabSwingers.com forum: What do you call the thingies used for picture framing?

By *ex-a-frolics OP Couple
over a year ago

Brizzle

Got given a framec picture for Xmas, it’s a nice gift but when I opened it it nearly fell out of the frame.

There were some tack like things in the wrapping which had come off & since gone missing. It’s the ones that secure the backboard to the frame that can be lifted if you wanted to clean inside.

My new knowledge of framing tells me I’m 3 or 4 of these missing making it impossible to hang, it doesn’t tell me where I can buy & how to fix attach them.

Anybody help & have any idea what I’m on about?

Thanks.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

Crumpet Castle

Yes. They are called 'turn buttons'.

Look them up on a picture framing site or better still faithful old AMAZON.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

Crumpet Castle

Just stick the back down with some good masking tape and clean it in the next decade.

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By *ex-a-frolics OP Couple
over a year ago

Brizzle

Thanks for that, I had a look online, turn button isn’t the right thing. What I had were a very small thin strip of metal with a point at one end, looks like they are somehow pushed or hammered on top of the board into the frame.

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By *icky-discoMan
over a year ago

oxford

"Thanks for that, I had a look online, turn button isn’t the right thing. What I had were a very small thin strip of metal with a point at one end, looks like they are somehow pushed or hammered on top of the board into the frame. "

Picture hangers?

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By *ex-a-frolics OP Couple
over a year ago

Brizzle

No it’s not for hanging, it’s for securing the back board to the frame to stop the glass picture falling out!

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By *icky-discoMan
over a year ago

oxford

"No it’s not for hanging, it’s for securing the back board to the frame to stop the glass picture falling out!"

I know what you mean but don’t know the name of them are they all missing?

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By *icky-discoMan
over a year ago

oxford

Just googled it they are called turn buttons

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By *icky-discoMan
over a year ago

oxford

"Just googled it they are called turn buttons

Sorry

They are glazier points

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

Crumpet Castle

Turn buttons

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"Just stick the back down with some good masking tape and clean it in the next decade. "

^ This, or a few pin tacks should do the trick

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

ukpictureframingsupplies dot co dot uk

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By *G LanaTV/TS
over a year ago

Gosport

I think what you looking for are framers points.

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