Simple Sandwich Acrylic Photo Frame

Problem- Christmas is just around the corner, needed present for Mum.
Solution- Simple but cool photo frame (in my opinion, though I am bias)

I needed to make my Mum a present for Christmas, however time was running short and I only had an hour in the school workshop to design and make. I'm not the best at using my hands never mind working to a deadline. However I decided to make a simple quick to make photo frame. I only had a small amount of clear acrylic from past projects. So I came up with this and set out o make it.

As I was rushing I did not have time to take photos and had not planned on making an instructable, though I have disassembled the frame to show the stages of construction.

Step 1 Design

The frame consists of 2 pieses of acrylic with a photograph or picture sandwiched between them and held togather by 4 bolts. There are 2 shoet bolts and 2 long bolts. The long bolts make up the stand for the frame. The bolts can be place in any hole so this enables the frame to be used for landscape and portrait pictures depending which you need.

Since I only had a small amount of acrylic I was use a less than ideal size for the frame. Mine was 180x 130 mm and with the holes being 10mm from the outer edge of the acrylic this gave a tight fit for the photo, so on mine the corners of the photograph can get caught by the bolts in the holes so I would suggest you make yours 183x133 mm as this would seem to provide enough room for the photo without getting damaged.
As I mentioned above the the holes for the bolts are placed 10mm from the outer edges.