Craig Frames B461 12x16-Inch Mat, Single Opening for 8.5x11-Inch Image, Crisp White with Cream Core

I'm gonna make something with meat in four to go and today I'm gonna show you how to make picture frames and how to professionally match and mount your artwork and photographs let's check it so the very first thing we're going to do is we're going to cut all our boards to width I want a frame size of two inches wide there is a formula for figuring out how much would you need for a picture frame we're not gonna go over that just yet we'll do that at the end of the video because I don't want to scare you away with algebra [Music] I'm going to cut our rabbit I have my blade set to a quarter inch high and my fence set to a quarter of an inch and we got to do this in two passes for most cases a quarter of an inch rabbit will be good enough for your artwork if you're dealing with something a little bit thicker you might have to go a little bit deeper so we'll do one pass that's going to put a