The Framers Forum

We average a 3-4 week changeover on blades here. We have 5 sets in rotation - some we've had for years and others that are quite new. We get Mainline to sharpen ours and can't fault the job they do. We usually send 2 sets away at a time as it saves on the postage cost if they are in one parcel.

... of place. TTMG sample.jpg It is 36mm wide, 33mm deep and has a rebate of about 15mm. I have checked our Arqadia and Simon's catalogues, and the Mainline website but haven't found anything myself yet, but there are none so blind as can't see so I'm happy to be corrected :-) Rolf

Had my mainline rep in earlier and he told me it is their new website (well subsidiary of their website) so our customers can't see prices etc... but can give them a link to see the different mouldings available ...but also allowing ...

... me to do something more with shop display of our painted ranges. (we have a moulding made up by norfolk mouldings, one which was discontined by mainline a few years ago which we couldn't find anywhere else at all, so we had to get it made and we offer about 20 different paint/finish options ...

which suppliers should be available in est?

i thought Lion and Mainline should be in the list

i have tried updating the update all suppliers list, but they dont appear in the list to select as suppliers

Would it be something i have done?, i did update to latest version etc

Hi Jamie
Ricky from Mainline Mouldings brought your post to my attention.
The moulding indeed is our 423 p/w, this is available from stock.
Send me your address and i will pop a catalogue in the post?
Regarsd
Tom
Unique Wholesale

just ring mainline, ask them they will know of any of their customers using a mitre trimmer

as the annoying meerkat says - simples

Don't see why not. Pol moulding cuts much the same as wood. Get some in and have a go. Mainline do a good range and also do sample lenghts for half price.

Also, wood glue won't work with pol moulding. We use ga glue called PU Max (you just need to use a little on the joints).

Hope that helps.

Mainline Mouldings website is also very good like their 3d moulding view and shows stock. Sometimes Simons have a wider choice than Arqadia in areas, but I much prefer Arqadia for ease of ordering online - with stock levels ...

... with this and it didn't seem to work consistently, and more importantly easily whatever I tried to do. I thought I would ask Ricky Patterson at Mainline Mouldings for advice, as I was cutting some of their moulding at the time. His reply which I've copied below made sense and worked for us first ...

... everything. Now the joints are acceptable, are they perfect? Well they are as good as they were. Interestingly, the new Morso blades were from Mainline 2009, I have kept them as spares, I should have tested them straight away - we live and learn!

... everything. Now the joints are acceptable, are they perfect? Well they are as good as they were. Interestingly, the new Morso blades were from Mainline 2009, I have kept them as spares, I should have tested them straight away - we live and learn!

I had this problem recently, after investing in new blades. It turned out that Morso did actually have a batch of faulty blades, so they were replaced by Mainline, who I had bought them off.
I do think that blades are often the problem, I have about 6 sets now and only 3 make perfect joints.

... L1883 but wants one 40mm wide (the visable part) rather than 30mm. Lion don't do one, any suggestions who might? I dont see one at Wessex or Mainline. this is for 10 frames so I don't mind ordering specially as there is plenty of wiggle room. :wink: Alan This is the L1883 profile from Lion ...

... It is a plastic in a cream, faux white washed wood effect, 45 wide, 35mm deep. Looking at the back it is a pale grey colour. My suspicion is it is Mainline Polcore POL 4008 but the last batch of polcore I bought had "Polcore" moulded into it which this did not have but it could be old ...

Yes, you are too close to the outside edge. Look in the Lion catalogue or Mainline Mouldings website for their recommendations for joining synthetic mouldings. Regarding stacking: take some waste pieces and join them with stacked wedges then take them apart and ...

... scratch on my morso and piece float mounted on conservation board. Quite happy with how it turned out although the coating on the moulding from Mainline was very brittle and even with a newly sharpened and fully renewed set of blades broke out the back edge no matter what I did? Closest place ...

... a foamex sign on my unit front. A year on it seems 100% fine and I chose it cos it was plastic/cheap/lightweight. Black finish though and of the mainline polcore type - some like the Simons Emafyl do seem to have a more delicate finish that can crack and peel. Agree simons ready mades or arqadia ...

Is he near to any trade suppliers with showroom he could browse? e.g. Wessex Pictures, Mainline Mouldings, Ashworth & Thompson etc. I am sure if he is a potential customer they would give him a bit of time.

Tried that too... They like it that much they are prepared to stick with them for their framing which is the major part of what they offer
Hiding to nothing already....

Mainline don't do it either.

Pretty sure it's a mainstream supplier...