Making a Custom Fit Braced Picture Frame.

When it came to framing an old Mixed Media Painting that I'd done some 8 years back, I knew not any old frame job would do. The backboard had slightly warped (as inevitably happens to larger works on hardboard without a brace) so I knew it was high time I rectified it. The next challenge was to make a safe strong support to enable me to display this art piece as it was meant to be displayed... up on the wall. I couldn't have the bottom falling off it under the weight of the painting, and the only way I could think of to minimize the weight on the bottom frame bar was to distribute the weight to the side frame bars..