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123 Inch 3D Pro K3 Stretcher Bar 3-1/2" Deep K3-123
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3D™ Pro K3 Stretcher Bar is the ultimate 3-1/2" museum quality Stretcher Bar system. Cross Braces may be ordered to create a frame that has multiple cross braces up to 16 crosses for the largest size. Frame support is the most important part of your canvas frame, because it makes it possible to achieve the maximum canvas tension. To add tension to your stretched canvas, simply press the brace keys further into their respective slots.
3D™ Pro 3.5 Stretcher Bar • 1/2" Canvas Clearance
1/2" Canvas Clearance 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.
- Produces a 3.5" deep stretched canvas (Actual depth is slightly thinner)
- 1.25" wide Stretcher Bar
- 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
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.
Sustainable Forests - A Precious Natural Resource
The air that we breathe depends upon our healthy forests the world over. For this reason, we only use lumber from the sustainable forests of the Pacific Northwest, so we can guarantee that our nation's precious natural timber resources are available for future generations.
Canvas Size Needed for this Stretcher Bar
Most artists will stretch the canvas and attach the staples or tacks onto the back side of the frame. Doing so allows you to paint on the edge and hang your art without needed a picture frame. Generally speaking, you should allow 10 Inches of canvas beyond the size of your frame.
For example, if you were to stretch a 41x123 frame size, which happens to be a 3:1 Panorama aspect ratio size, your canvas should be about 10 x 133. This allows you ample room to stretch and attach the canvas on the back. Should you ever need to remove the canvas from the frame and re-attach it, it still serves that purpose too. Should you want to attach the canvas from the edge of the stretcher frame, then you can reduce the size of your canvas about 3/4" all the way around the frame.
From the heart of California, Masterpiece® has been weaving a legacy since 1965, curating the best Stretcher Bars North America has witnessed. Our unwavering dedication to quality and innovation has cast us in the limelight as the trendsetting stalwarts in the realm of fine-art canvases. The patents we hold are not just certificates but validations of our pursuit of perfection. Engage with our creations and feel the promise of unmatched quality, a promise that resonates with your clients and every future beholder of your masterpiece.
We must accept life for what it actually is — a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
♦ Robert Delaunay
At the heart of Robert Delaunay's statement lies a profound understanding of human potential and the transformative power of challenges. Delaunay, whose life was characterized by his ceaseless drive to innovate and reinvent the realm of art, knew all too well the value of adversity. Challenges, he posits, serve as mirrors, reflecting our strengths, our vulnerabilities, and the vast reservoirs of untapped potential within.
For us, challenges are not just external obstacles but internal provocations urging us to redefine boundaries and shatter perceived limitations. Like the canvas that beckons an artist to express, life invites us to engage, to wrestle, and to emerge with a deeper understanding of ourselves. It's through this dance with adversity that we discover the nuances of our craft, honing skills and cultivating resilience. Embracing life's challenges, in all its unpredictable twists and turns, is integral to our growth, pushing us to ascend to new artistic heights and to recognize the depths of our own capabilities.
We curated this empowering quote with some context and hope you find it insightful, plus we created this unique portrait of Robert Delaunay to make it a bit more intriguing. Now get to work on your own!
Tight'n'Up™ Liquid Canvas Retensioner
One of our most celebrated products helps make your canvas tighter! Assembling Stretcher Bars and Stretching your own canvas can present some challenges. While your canvas may seem tightly stretched, the tension may vary from staple to staple creating lines of tension across the canvas in a grid like pattern. The trick is to maintain balanced tension across the canvas.
Tight'n'Up™ Liquid Canvas Re-Tensioner is a great way to redistribute the tension in a canvas across that grid-like pattern of tension as well as increase the tension on the entire canvas. While you can can add tension by keying-out the corners of the frame, it may produce an hour-glass effect by expanding the frame in the corners, and not the center.
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.
Additional Details
- SKU:
- K3-123
- Canvas and Depth:
- 3.50 in. K3 Bar 3D Pro Bar
- Length:
- 123 Inch