A Picture Hanging Tool

[olderdan]

Been doing it that way for years just hanging the picture on a tape measure to measure the drop. Offer the picture up and put a post it on the top edge when she is happy. After our house move we had to hang around forty pictures, went ok but I wish I had made that tool before hand. For hard walls I pull the pin from a cable clip (they don't bend).

[Floradawg]

Great idea.

[desbromilow]

I built my version of this tool with a much longer handle so I could hold the picture up from the underside, move it around the wall for her, and once happy just lift the picture off, leaving the tool (with it's pin) in place.

[gatz]

and then “can you move it 2 inches to the left?”
— resets picture to new location —
“umm, how about 3” higher?”

[CharlesWaugh]

Having been a fine art portrait artist for 22 years, and having hung many hundreds of portraits, I can attest that two hangers are much better than one.

With two pins there is more friction on the wire and less opportunity for the frame to slowly tip out of being level.

So, the same tool could be made in a T shape with two pins.

I really like the idea of making the handle longer so you reach up from below.

I could even make a tool that would mount on the top of one of my light stands, and without deploying the legs, but just leaning it against the wall, I could do it all single-handedly!

Trickery, trickery!

Thanks for the great idea.