Description
23x88 Elite™ Professional B2 Frame Kit • 1-1/2" Deep • 88:23 • B2K-2388
Our Masterpiece® Elite™ Professional 1-1/2" Deep Stretcher Bar Kit is the ultimate museum quality solid-wood stretcher system. It's so unique, it earned us a Patent! All you need to do is select the frame size and you will receive everything you need to build a museum class Stretcher Bar Frame. We have 6105 sizes available in this and two other depths. Get Any Size You Want!
True 88:23 Custom Proportion - 23x88 Size
Explore other Masterpiece® products in this exact 23x88 size:
- Stretched Acrylic Primed Cotton Canvas : Shasta™
- Stretched Acrylic Primed Linen Canvas: Grenoble™ • Pau™
- Stretched Alkyd / Oil Primed Linen Canvas: Isola™ • Poitiers™
- 3D™ K2.5 Frame Kit • 3D™ K3.5 Frame Kit
- Super strong Elite™ B2™ Stretcher Bar is 50% stronger than most others in its class
- For this 23x88 large size frame, the frame provides the ultimate foundation for your art with increased strength and stability
- Produces a 1.5" deep stretched canvas
- 2-1/4" wide Stretcher Bars
- All Bars have an exclusive groove on the inside perimeter of the frame to which cross braces and Diamond Corner Braces attach
- Solid Ponderosa Pine or Fir from the Pacific Northwest
Elite™ Professional 1.5" Deep B2 Bar • 1/2" Canvas Clearance
A Canvas Clearance of 1/2" is the space between the Bar and the canvas. Generally speaking, more clearance reduces the risk of the canvas touching the wood and creating unsightly lines during painting. Our design provides the optimal clearance so as not to impact your painting, but still leaving enough wood to the maximize strength of the Stretcher Bar.Finger Jointed Wood is not meant for Stretcher Bars
Solid wood makes the most dependable Stretcher Bar, because one homogeneous wood member is going to behave similarly across the entire length of the Bar. Whereas, with finger-jointed wood is made-up of multiple pieces of wood, sometimes on the actual joint itself, presenting multiple points of failure which no one can control.
We only use Solid Wood to build our Stretcher Bars because a solid piece of wood will last indefinitely. When we speak of archival value, it's not just the paint you use and the quality of your canvas and ground, even the wood choices manufacturers add or reduce value to your final painting. The fact is, you don't want problems, and finger joints only increase that risk of the wood falling apart in the future.
The glue used to bind finger joints is a water based adhesive and when that wood is exposed to high humidity environments, particularly with exterior walls, the glue joints can give-up. As a manufacturer, Masterpiece® does its part to conserve as much wood as possible, and still provide a quality product that will out-perform any other in the marketplace.
Forests need People, and People Need Forests
Using lumber from sustainably managed forests is a way to support the health and well-being of our planet and its inhabitants. By choosing products made with sustainably sourced lumber, we can help to protect the environment, support local communities, and ensure a sustainable future for generations to come.
Specially Dried and Heat Treated Lumber
We source our wood from a select group of top-tier environmentally conscious lumber mills in the Pacific Northwest. These mills specially dry and heat-treat the lumber to our specifications, resulting in about half the moisture content compared to wood from typical home improvement centers or lumber yards. This process makes the wood stronger, reducing the likelihood of cracking, splitting, or warping. While the wood we use comes at a higher cost, it ensures a more dimensionally stable end product. This stability is crucial for crafting fine professional canvases that support your invaluable art over time.
29x94 is the Canvas Size Needed for this 23x88 Frame
Please note that you will need a canvas that is at least 6 Inches larger than the actual frame size to ensure proper stretching. This will provide ample material to stretch the canvas and attach it to the back of the frame. If you prefer to attach the canvas from the edge of the stretcher frame, you can reduce the size of your canvas by approximately 3/4" all the way around the frame. This will allow you to paint on the edge of the canvas and hang your artwork without needing a separate picture frame. And, if you ever need to remove the canvas from the frame and re-attach it, you'll have enough material to do that too.Tight'n'Up™ Liquid Canvas Retensioner
One of our most appreciated products helps make your canvas tighter! Stretching a canvas tightly can be a challenge. Our Frame Kits include the Corner and Brace Keys that you will need to add tension, but Tight'n'Up™ Liquid Canvas Re-Tensioner is a way that you can use to add tension to the canvas without needed to use the keys. It canvas be sprayed on the back of a canvas to repair most canvas tension issues.
With Tight'n'Up™, you can add tension to just a small area, or a large area. Simply spray it lightly on the back and brush it into the canvas, and within seconds, your canvas becomes tighter and stays tighter. The more you use, the tighter it gets. Recommended for acrylic primed cotton or linen canvas. We do not recommend it for oil primed canvas because there are simply too many different types of oil primed canvas, but used conservatively at your own risk, it will tension any canvas.
Rooted in California and flourishing since 1965, Masterpiece® takes pride in its family-led legacy of crafting North America's premier Stretcher Bars. Our quest for excellence isn't just a goal but a commitment, positioning us as the trailblazers in the domain of fine-art canvas. Our innovative patents have set new benchmarks, ensuring our offerings stand unmatched. Dive into the tactile experience of our products, and you'll instantly recognize the distinct Masterpiece® quality, a signature appreciated by both your clientele and future art connoisseurs.
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
♦ Anatole France
A renowned French writer of the late 19th and early 20th century, Francois-Anatole France wasn't just an observer of the human condition, but a deep thinker who often ruminated on the relationship between humans and the vast cosmos surrounding them. He went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921 for his brilliant achievements in literary prose, characterized by nobility of style and profound human sympathy.
France's reflections on wandering take us back to a time when man was more intimately connected with nature, living in sync with the rhythms of the world around him. Wandering is more than a physical journey; it's an exploration of our inner landscapes, a quest for artistic inspiration, and a reconnection with the raw beauty of the world. We often find ourselves seeking new horizons, be it through travels or the meanderings of our imagination. In these explorations, we discover fresh perspectives and a renewed sense of belonging to the grand tapestry of existence. The act of wandering, be it through forests, cities, or the canvas, is our way of harmonizing our spirit with the universe, rekindling that ancient bond and understanding the beauty and chaos that coexist in the world around us.
Embrace the synergy of this profound quote with our interpretation of it's meaning with a nice little portrait that we created of Anatole France. Time to create!
Additional Details
- SKU:
- B2K-2388
- Canvas and Depth:
- 1.50 In. Frame Kit
- Width:
- 23 Inch
- Length:
- 88 Inch