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Posted: Wed 26 Mar, 2008 9:15 pm
by Jonny2morsos
We cut mounts for 50 cards on our Valiani CMC. First of all we do a practice on a scrap piece of mount board to get the aperture size just right as we have found some sets of cards to be slightly different sizes to others. Having tried the pre cut mounts we find this much more satisfactory.
Customers seem happy as they come back for more.
John.
Posted: Wed 26 Mar, 2008 10:07 pm
by Merlin
Another John and a Valiani as well.
I wasnt going to advertise on here, but will now.
Likewise we cut cigarette mounts and have recently won a good contract with a 'major player' who is an end product seller.
To see examples and cost visit my site at the link below.
As with others on this thread, we have cut many 50 aperture mounts on the manual Keencut. What a pain - literally -it is. Like some of you it magically goes wrong with the last few cuts. Hence the CMC. What a Godsend.
Posted: Wed 26 Mar, 2008 10:17 pm
by Roboframer
My last but three cigarette card job was a 30 or so aperture with fillips!!!
But it earned me a homemade Victoria sponge and a big wet kiss - wish he'd shaved though!
Posted: Thu 27 Mar, 2008 1:05 am
by prospero
The Golden Rule for all us non-CMC types when cutting any multi-aperture mounts to pencil lines:
Always keep the dropout area under the cutter bar and all your bevels will go the right way.
Posted: Thu 27 Mar, 2008 1:36 am
by osgood
The "Diamond" rule for cutting multitudes of openings:
Locate a CMC owner who will cut them for you for a fraction of the cost of your labour if you cut them by hand!
multi app
Posted: Thu 27 Mar, 2008 8:53 pm
by silvercleave
Am having trouble keepin up with you lot but learning lots, by the way are you all trusted with things that are sharp
Keep it up, I'm getting quicker
Re: multi app
Posted: Thu 27 Mar, 2008 9:09 pm
by Moglet
silvercleave wrote:Am having troubule keepin up....
If you think this is bad, try The Grumble!
silvercleave wrote:....things that are sharp...
And not just the stuff in the workshop.
Glad you're enjoying the Forum!
Posted: Thu 27 Mar, 2008 9:29 pm
by Framer Dave
prospero wrote:The Golden Rule for all us non-CMC types when cutting any multi-aperture mounts to pencil lines:
Always keep the dropout area under the cutter bar and all your bevels will go the right way.
Put a nice big pencilled X in the middle of each dropout. If you see the X when cutting, you're doing it wrong.
Posted: Thu 27 Mar, 2008 9:37 pm
by Mary Case GCF
I used to use a system of arrows round the box, following the direction of the cut. If I could see the arrow on the right of the line and it was pointing down, I was cutting right, Of course (boast, boast) I don't need to do that any more. My gal pal Val will do it all for me.
Posted: Thu 27 Mar, 2008 9:44 pm
by kev@frames
acid free stamp hinges