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It is easy to hold up a picture against the wall while a significant other directs you to the correct location. But it is not so easy to figure out where to drive the nail to support the picture. This tool takes the guesswork out of the task. It works with both a hole in the frame and with a wire support.
If you are interested, please see
https://rick.sparber.org/PictureHangingTool.pdf
Your comments are welcome. All of us are smarter than any one of us.
Thanks,
Rick
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I like it,will make life a lot easier.
Regards,
Tony.
Good idea, Rick
Great solution, Rick!
How many times mine has said that's not where I wanted it
We're still talking about hanging pictures, aren't we Frank? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
Yep held a picture up to the wall she said perfect then drive the nail hang the picture and NOPE not there. Pull the nail drive it again just maybe 1/2 inch up down left or right NOPE not there. Again and again until finally place nail in first hole YEP that's perfect. Mean while there are half a dozen holes around the nail. Better to build a bunch of easels and let her have to move them around to vacuum.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scotsman Hosie
I am just kidding by the way no actual walls were violated in the making of this post My Gal will say this looks like a good place for a picture then grab a hammer and where ever the nail happens to go is where the picture will remain until the wall falls down from all of the weight hanging on it
This is just one of the many reasons I look forward to this forum
A laugh a minute aye?Quote:
Originally Posted by TrickieDickie
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).
Great idea.
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.
and then “can you move it 2 inches to the left?”
— resets picture to new location —
“umm, how about 3” higher?”