The Framers Forum

We bought our business 3 years ago and inherited a Keencut 48” mount cutter. It’s over 20 years old and apart from new blades, hasn’t really been looked after; there’s lots of “give” in the moving parts and it’s tricky to maintain consistency.

We’re wondering whether it’s worth splashing out on the latest new version, which looks like it will make cutting different depths of mountboard much simpler.

We would greatly appreciate your thoughts and advice please

I had an old Ultimat Gold and changed for a new Ultimat Futura, much better machine, parts aren't really available for the Gold and the cutting head on the Futura is a better engineering setup

You can convert an old ultimat or ultimat gold to the futura with an upgrade kit from Lion (and maybe other suppliers) scroll down to the bottom of page here for Lion part Nos.

https://www.lionpic.co.uk/content/infos ... Futura.pdf



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As far as I know none of the upgrade kits are still available

You’re right I just tried one of the part Nos. no good, shame.

Maybe it’s just a simple swap of the cutter bar and head assembly, that’s how it reads. Keencut would sell you one, could be worth a call.

@Martock it sounds like you have answered your own question.

Thank you for your time everyone - I think we’ll go for it! I didn’t want to waste money if we were unlikely to see a considerable improvement in our mount quality