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Or choose the lady........

TIME OUT - TIME OUT Áine - have you checked out Odems' signature/link? His sister is not the only one coming :!: (Oh yeah - welcome Mr Bojangles and Odems too) Do you want to know about my 70 chocolate eating positions? Actually I've never really made the 70 - Ooooooooooooooh I leeeerve chocolate. ...

My sister-in-law is comming......

Hello Odems, we love your Hanging system, especially now it comes preassembled, we were one of the first to test the new preassembled system from Lion, when we get our new workshop layout sorted i'll be stocking up on Odems! LOL THX But I'm not here to promote my stuff. But developing goes further ...

Hello, I'm new too...... Top-Framers here!

John wrote: This does not work with my IE7 running on XP. However, "Alt+s" works fine.

Sorry John..... I think this combination only works with a Mac.....

2 Beer plzzzz....

For you techheads I advise to post with "ctrl+shift+S" for posting.....

Do you confuse yous customers as a dancing Jolly Good Framer?

Super!

For many years ago at SACA a man from Argentina visited our booth and asked me to test a 2 mm sheet of light brown Eucalyptus-board. It was at both sides nice flat as MDF but the 2 mm was at least as strong as the 3 mm MDF. This man was not alone and he had an Italian fellow who looked like mobby......

One of my customers is working only with hardboard in mass-production. This hardboard is dark and made from Eucalyptus and I noted the board is feeling oily at my fingers. So I suspect the dust can't come off as easy as from MDF that feels more dry. Now I also know that manufacturers of MDF-plates 3...

Some framers use hardboard with only one side flat and in dark color as made by Duratex. This board is much stronger and more stiff. But in this board is also glue.... All board contains glue..... And all manufacturers can make mistakes. And if the mix of the glue is wrong, the board should be wrong...

Roboframer wrote:Hazardous to health (?) hazardous to artwork (!)

No lack of alternatives.

As far as I know framers always use special paper to avoid direct contact between MDF and an artwork. But I'm more a mass-production-specialist.

As some of your fellow-framers know, I already build special machines for years to mount steel clips with rivets at the board or MDF. Working with MDF in mass-production is not bad. The thickness of the 3 mm material can be very accurate. But the dust can be a problem. When the dust lays at the mach...

Does anyone know of any visualisation software for the Mac? If there is, you should find it at Versiontracker. Ithink you mean 3D-visualisation? Hmmm I investigated and noted that I already saw a Mac in use for mat-cutting by Larson & Juhl many years ago. And I also know that my USA-customer is...