The Framers Forum

Hi Guys Looking for a tool to fix the Small Micro Sawtooth hangers onto the back of wooden frames. The push in / hammer in , type of sawtooth I know that lion' used to sell one, but it has been out of stock for quite some time. Does anyone have one of these tools that they would like to sell ? pleas...

Apologies guys, I have been in and out of the country several times in the last 2-3 weeks Several interested parties, All Machines still available , as of 3rd July I am in UK till 15th / 16th of July, before moving to the sunnier climes of the Med, for the rest of the summer for grandparenting dutie...

I also have a TruCut like that
if you have issues, the guys at jwp-industries.co.uk are pretty helpful
These were the guys who bought the TruCut business

Hi Guys, Having a bit of a long overdue spring clean in of one of our warehouses. A mixture of machines, we have bought for specific projects which we are no longer involved in, and a few "just in case" machines we have kept, which have been superseded by newer shinier kit here over the ye...

Hi Guys Happy New Year Looking to get rid of a couple of our older saws and a de-comissioned one soon, and am looking for advice on a saw. Toss up between the following : - Cassese 999 - Alfa T400 - Both with the auto-guage, to minimise waste , bad cuts and to help with speed.[/list][/list] I'm inte...

Hi all, Any advice appreciated On one of my underpinner machines, the wedges are snapping when they fire 12mm wedges, often breaking ( This is when firing with no wood in the clamps, just for testing ) Never seen this before, and we have had alfa, casesse, taurus underpinners over the years Any sugg...

Hi all, Just after a bit of advice regarding Pneumatic framing Tab guns, for framing Which is the quickest, and most robust pneumatic model to use ? Any pro's / cons's regarding Omer vs Casesse etc ? or any other brands Speed would be our main requirement, if one make or brand is quicker than the ot...

Hi all Hope somebody could possibly advise I'm looking at a Brevetti underpinner that also glues the frames in the same cycle https://www.wessexpictures.com/AUT-2112_Brevetti_Coil-Fed_Hot_Glue_U_pinner.html Has anybody had any experience with a machibe like this ? Any pros ? Or cons ? All advice app...

Hi All,

One of my lads was trying to get an Alfa M4E working today, which has been sat dormant.
Not long after firing up the power, he got an error on the screen saying " Motion Error" or something similar ?

Anyone shed any light ?

thanks in advance , for any advice

Jack

Cheers Alistair,
That framework looks straightforward enough.
1st job of 2015 will be making that table.
Thanks for the advice
Kind regards
Jack

Hi Alistair, Thanks for the advice, much appreciated. Photos would be great to see I have a company next door to me that produce bespoke exhibition stands...so knocking up a frame wont be a problem for them. Just be great to see what others use, so that i can use this as a basis for ours kind regard...

Hi, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to All. I am looking to build a table for supporting mouldings during pinning for a Cassese CS299MXL that has been sitting in a corner for a couple of years. The main reason it is dormant, is because we never picked up any extension supports, for resting the ...

Hi Steve, Thanks for the assistance. No, i have never used MDF, and to be honest i struggled to get a decent join with Polcore. We had our saw calibrated, and our pinner, experimented with different wedge positions, but still the join was coming apart a little on the outside edge, at the bottom. Usi...

Hi, I am looking to price a job for contract framing, and wanted to know if anyone could recommend the best volume supplier of MDF wrap mouldings ? Also interested in any peoples views on the benefits / pro's / con's of using MDF as opposed to Poly mouldings or wood. Really appreciate a pointer to a...

Thanks again, for all the info and advice. I've got one of the lads experimenting with tilting the fences slightly on the underpinner, trying different pin positions, and different clamp positions. We have also increased the speed for the travel of the blades, and there is less of the "burn&quo...

Thanks for all of your answers and advice, Really very much appreciated. I always thought that framing was just a case of , cut, pin, quick wipe of the glass, staple the back board, and 4 strips of tape. Clearly i was watching the wrong guys ! churning out £1 a time 10x8's in 1/2 inch spoon moulding...

Thanks for your reply , Our Morso is in one of the toilets in the warehouse , next to the old underpinner ! So we haven't tried cutting on that :-) That seems to be becoming our used equipment graveyard. Raises an eyebrow if a visitor is caught short. We experimented with the wedge position, and tri...

Hi, Thanks for the info, much appreciated. Underneath , on the bottom, the join doesn't look apart hardly, and looks quite tight. The gap seems to be mostly on the side, towards the bottom. Wondering if the saw is maybe cutting the edge with a slight arc, as opposed to a straight edge. Knowing very ...

Hi , I have just taken delivery of a second hand cassese 939 double mitre saw. Have wired it up, and it seems fine. Not being a picture framer, I'm not up with the intricacies of getting good neat joints on corners of frames. Tried cutting a few pieces of Polcore, and the cuts seems good. However, w...

Thanks for the info guys, much appreciated.

What is considered acceptable ?
2mm or 3mm
I'm not looking for museum quality, but then I also don't want styrene either !
Just something that will please the average man in the street

Thanks in advance

Jack