The Framers Forum

Also interested, my system 4000 has been excellent, but the hardboard wheels could do with replacing.

Search for Giottos rocket blower. I use this on every picture and mount before framing. You just squeeze these and they are quite powerful, without the risk of moisture or oil from a compressor.

As Mike mentioned above the cans of air do sometimes spit moisture too and a fair bit when they do.

I cut, glue and underpin straight away. Don't really have time and space for band clamps. I think the problem with underpinning after the glue is dry is that you can weaken the joint from the already set glue. When I started I remember a big change to the improvement of my joins with an underpiner w...

When you say straight cutting do you mean just cutting the boards to size, if so it sounds like you are using the wrong blade. I use a medium Stanley style blade and if it doesn't cut throughin one you just increase the depth of the blade. Only really thick boards do I not cut through in one go. If ...

You can pick a Keencut 4000 up for not a lot of money, they are old but built like a tank.

You can also cut a lot of backing on the mountcutter and if you have a big enough workbench glass is easy to cut with a £25 glass hand glass cutter and a T-square.

I use the self healing mats on my workbench and then use a roll of the soft laminate floor underlay for glass cleaning and final assembly which I remove once finished.

For items that are not so valuable a hot-press is a great investment. Low heat, turn the pump on and prints come out flat in next to no time. A roller blind can also be used by roller the print in the opposite direction, easier to get wrong at the same time though. As above though I find sticking so...

It might be worth looking at electric cars as due to the current tax incentives for business leasing they can work out much cheaper than Ice cars.

Are the Munken boards only available in 800mm wide size?

I tend to use quite a few suppliers so can order boards from different manufactures, but at present I only use one mountboard manufacturer which is Larson Juhls own boards who I normally order direct from. I don't tend to have too many issues with a few of the other colours, but I use the snow white...

For the last ten years I have been using the same company for my mountboard, with 70% using one white colour. I had an issue with boards being full of specks about a year or two back and did speak with the company about it, things had been much better until this summer, but the last few months the b...

My most popular is Larsons Snow White which is not classed as a conservation board, but does work well with a lot of fine art giclee papers. My next most popular is Glacier, but this does have a bit more of a contrast when placed next to a lot of the giclee papers.

I have the underpinner at the same height as the workbench. I still keep a gap between the two to stand as I prefer to pin from the front. The workbench then supports any larger frames.

I started with a £30 bench end guillotine which cut MDF nicely. But as others have said the workbench soon gets cluttered so I switched to a cheap used keencut system 4000 about eight years ago which has been fantastic, so well built and just does the job nicely even though it's ancient. I cut a lot...

They look like the standard ones so you just need universal wedges from another brand. All the main framing suppliers should sell them.

Taurus disappeared around 10 years ago. A lot of their machines just use standard universal wedges. I use the Cassese universal ones in my 292D and they are fine. Taurus did make some underpinners with a different type of wedge which I believe you can no longer get hold of anymore from anyone, I thi...

What model machine do you have?

I have just checked my emails and the ones I have previously purchased are model number A0049

Hope this helps

This company sells the white ones.

https://www.glassparts.co.uk/

I send frames out every day with Parcelforce and I have to say I am very happy with them. In terms of damage I have had very little problems. Usually less than one damaged a year. I think the last one was around two years ago. In ten years I think they have lost one parcel. Parcels don't always arri...