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That would be the easiest of the lot to make.
If you make a mitre it needs to be 100000% accurate. The edges all need to meet perfectly. Imagine laying one sheet of glass on top of another, there wouldn't even be an air gap. The edges would need to meet up like that.
It's things like perfect mitres that take the skill and time, hence the price of good quality hand built frames.
It's totally doable and probably cheap. Only if you have the equipment and skills though.
If you were to tig weld it you could get away with tollerances that are a bit more open. But still, the closer the better