The Framers Forum

The advantage of photoshop / indesign / illustrator (as well as their less expensive cousins from https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/) is that you can drop pictures of the pictures in place. Once you're used to using them, it is way faster than shuffling cut paper, and you can keep a record of t...

This https://www.manutan.co.uk/en/key/heavy- ... gJ7kPD_BwE is what we had ours stood on.

Room to construct storage below it. Really rather solid.

Another variable is the organic drive control unit. On ourJavelin BigBench, I had to condition myself to walk with the cutter head, or atleast swivel from the hips as I pushed through longer sections of more rigid materials. I discovered that I'd apply slight rotation with my fore arm, as I pushed t...

You could go down the track saw route - a fine tooth blade with a negative rake along the lines of these https://www.swedex-shop.co.uk/index.php?route=product/category&path=20_26, then clean up with a hand plane and or sanding block. There is a brand of blade whose name escapes me, that people rave ...

Cut through- We have recently developed a way of cutting ACP using a TECH D 012 blade on our range of Evolution3 cutters used in the sign industry. We have found that if both the board and the blade are clamped firmly with only just enough blade exposed to get through the board, with 5-6 cuts you c...

We're not allowing anyone in, but we're still working (currently only two of us in production at opposite ends of a 4000sq ft floor). Ours is a diversified business, all photographic related. Film processing, scanning, printing, exhibition production, frame installation, as well as online training. ...

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It hadn't occured to me that you could embiggen type here - learned a new thing!

Thank you, that looks very interesting - I'll be in contact in the new year.

Thank you - I'll take you up on this in the new year.
Great to have you on the forum.

Hello Tom,

I'm the son of an engineer. They don't ask stupid questions, just good ones.

I'll leave it to the grownups to answer the hard wood questions (whilst I covet their hardware).

Have fun here.

Richard

I've quite a few like that, at least one lives in my back pocket most of the time at work (and on many occassions, I've discovered one or two when pulling out a wallet, or these days a mask). the OLF/180BLK has the nicest snapping mechanism that I've used to date. I have the 9mm ones, and I got a bo...

Related to a couple of recent conversations here, I get through rather a lot of general stanley blades, trimming mounted photographs. Most of the blades have a light oil base, that when changing blades on the cutter, transfers to fingers. To get round this, whenever I open a pack of blades, I'll rou...

If your customer is a regular, or might become one, someone who'll come back to you for your services, then it might be worth losing the "commission" on this sale, for the sake of goodwill (unless they have many more offspring, in which case Mark's advice would make even more sense). When I was a te...

^^^ Shortly after we bought our steeltrak, I asked them if there was a way to support substrates that weren't using the twin wheels. Couple of days later, a package arrived with the support. Oh, Steeltrak has production stops - any chance of this for the Javelin Big Bench? Codlaparw production stops...

(Big) if this is a low value, lots of spares available poster, then it might be worth trying to iron, with a slim piece of slightly damp mountboard between the iron and the print, possibly with an equally not quite dry sheet of board below. Essentially localised steam treatment. I'm not suggesting t...

Yes, DIY - unless it's wildly different from the SteelTrak (which we've moved three or four times), then very straightforward. Two or three people helps, as does having room to navigate the machine through assembly.

Keencut write good instruction sets.

Contact Lion - their customer service is very good - they are the supplier, and will help.
Contact Keencut - their customer service is very good - they are the manufacturer, and have a reputation to preserve.

Then tell us the outcome!

They are psychotic little buggers who like nothing better than to try to rip your thumb open, when you try to take the frame apart.

Apart from that, nowt wrong.

I'll add that the SteelTrak also requires mindful attention when cutting glass (at least, without the additional glass cutting kit), to avoid an additional curved bit on the LHS.

We've been slightly lazy, and use PayPal for our merchant services - less than a minute to send an invoice. All clients either pay on order, or at time of collection. Paypal does allow payment over the phone, or by contactless / C&P Haven't had a card terminal charged up and running, since March. B2...