10. Thomas Baker's Canvas Stretching Tutorial

[tinfoil777]

Get a grip on yourself, now. Rein in those emotions. I assume you're talking about the wooden wedges in the corners of a stretcher frame. "Pulling the sides apart," no matter how you accomplish it, as a way of tightening a loose canvas is simply a bad idea. It unevenly strains and ultimately damages the canvas. Banging in wedges (perpendicularly, diagonally, or any other way) is a mickey-mouse fix for a loose canvas.

But if you like it, bang away! (diagonally, of course). It's a free country.

[suntanners]

You're a fucking idiot. You're hitting them in perpendicular while you're supposed to hit them in diagonally so the wood chip pulls the sides apart. What you are doing is useless. No wonder you don't think these are good, you don't know how to use them!

[PONYOandTOTORO]

"But it's just such a poor idea, I would never do it, if I were you". Shouldn't you call this, Thomas Baker's How Not to Stretch a Canvas Tuturial. I don't understand.

[tinfoil777]

Somebody claimed that the music I ended the final segment with was copyrighted, so I had to pull it. So there is no #11 on YouTube now. However, other people here probably have videos showing how to stretch canvas with pliers, so you'll have to go looking for them (and look for someone using the pliers in a criss-cross pattern, which gives a more even stretch).

Or, if you're serious enough about canvas stretching, you can always go to my website and buy my DVD, to see how to do it my way.

Tom

[mikebossi1]

thanks for the tip on stretching that's all i needed to know,damn cat stepped on my canvas lol.

[limageman]

wheres no. 11 ?

[andzonutube]

hi, your videos were super and I went thru all of them and the final one after 10 is missing. Please put it up cos now i only want to see the way you do it.

I dont trust every body else.

:)

thanks again!!!