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I have a Keencut Futura mount cutter and Keencut Excalibur 5000 and would never consider cutting the 'squares' on the mount cutter only the windows. The Excalibur cuts more accurately and more easily, it's much more industrial and I would judge more durable

Hi, as confirmed your post is visible, if your question is due to a lack of interest then this is probably due to all the active forum members are professional framers who have already have all the equipment.
IMO a startup framer buys equipment on perhaps Ebay then joins the forum with framing ...

Congratulations, I came back to framing after a long break about 2 1/2 years ago and it's been great!
Good luck with everything!!

The Futura is a good machine, the Ulimat Gold is really quite old now.
I would suggest if you have space to try and find a 62", then it covers pretty much all mount board sizes

Option 1, as suggested by Jerome; canvas offsets but as mentioned may be visible
Option 2, as suggested by Prospero; re-stretch on slimmer stretcher bars
Option 3, re-make using a deeper frame

I would be on option 3

I used to use an Framers Corner foot operated underpinner where I used a hard rubber pad between the round metal disc and the moulding and didn't have any problems.
If you wanted another underpinner you can have my old one free of charge, just have to collect from Hull

I have spoken to Sarah recently and she was very helpful, as Justintime has posted in the past £5k could well buy you an F1 Hybrid but with the old control unit which if it goes faulty is not repairable, a new control unit is £4k - 5k, or you could order a refurbished unit from Sarah with 2 year ...

This made me smile, new mount for a job - the green one I cut underneath, the original ran out 10mm over 550mm, the sides were fine, the customer hadn't noticed for the 20 years on her wall!

I will give you a ring, it will be after the weekend - some deadline jobs I need to press on with

Training - possibly!
Swimming - the cold water shock would probably finish me off!!

My first suggestion would be surface mount using hedgehog method on something like Wessex WCM666 dark blue mountboard, I like showing the edges - its part of the story

They did, and I would have bought it instantly but the 10+ hour round trip (on a good day) put me off

If you are mounting with top and bottom hinged together, why not use standard Tawny board - up to now I have found that very flat?

I use Tawny board and recently I ordered some conservation Tawny board and every sheet bowed the wrong way, so I ordered some Corri-Cor conservation and though generally it bows the right way, towards the edge it curves the opposite way - not useful.

Best is down to your situation; I used to use BBEst - I liked the once only payment of approx £120, I disliked updating prices manually and no customer records, there is a possibility to swap to Estlite but (I think) that's about £450 and more comprehensive - I didn't try that.
I swapped to FramR ...

I give mine away to a place called Scrapstore which is a local arts and craft charity shop

You mentioned using a Minigraff underpinner, I'm not sure if the clamping is the same as my Alfamacchine but originally I used to almost exclusively use the middle clear pad, only using black harder pad for hardwoods, recently I use the black a lot more because for me it's better for the situation ...

When you say flush do you mean tight mitres?
If so a few things, you mentioned new blades, are these brand new never been used Morso blades or another set you have?
If brand new I would suggest that with a (big as possible) straight edge set up the right hand fence to be perfectly in line with the ...

Hi, I will buy the canvas pliers please, I have sent you a PM

Hi, do you have information as to the machines age?
Does it come with any consumables?