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Originally Posted by Turtle
 No. a stretcher as in the wooden frame that holds the canvas stretched tight and as used by an artist to paint on. The pre-made ones are expensive and don't come proportioned as Golden Rectangles.  |
the construction details of an artist's canvas stretcher differ from virtually all other wooden frames in several details.
- the face of the frame is planed back in relief so that the canvas only touches along narrow edges at the frame's outside
- the frame is not glued or nailed, rather held together at the mitered corners by either a spline & grooves, or a mortise & tenon plus grooves.
- either the main splines are tapered and extend past the grooves to the stretcher frame interior, or 4 supplemental splines are provides for later stretching.
since i have small stock and only hand tools i will use the single tapered spline method. in my next movie i will show how to hand cut the miters.
