Another artist asked me about the hanging system in my studio. I thought it might be helpful to do a blog post on it so other people can use it. It works best with extra thick stretcher bars.
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It's made out of a thin strips of lath or molding (I can't remember what we bought.) It's screwed into the top of the wall with drywall anchors.
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I needed to shim it out from the wall at an angle so that the canvases would hang against the strips. When I first put it in it the canvases would swing off the wall because the wall was not exactly vertical. (Earthquakes I think)
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I bought dowels and a drill bit that matched the diameter. I cut them into long lengths for the thicker stretcher bars and shorter ones for the thinner ones. You cannot cut enough of these!
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These clips are really use full for clamping the canvases and boards to the dowels and the lath strips.
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