The Framers Forum

My Morso is nearing the end of its life and it's been a hard life.

It was bought by Mrs R about 1995 as a surprise present and she found it not via any framing supplier/source but a carpenters' place, cowering in a corner, unloved, neglected.


She picked it out, we shook it up and turned it around
Turned it into something new
Now sixteen years later on its got the world at its feet
Success has been so easy for it
But don't forget it's us who put it where it is now
And we can put it back down too

It has too many foibles to be sold - no-one bar me could make it work like a new machine and I'm getting tired of the advanced Morso-dance techniques required to do that. Just like it, I ain't getting no younger. Waltzes are OK, but I'm talking break dancing.

We thought about getting it a donor card but breaking it up would be just too much to bear.

So - Spring Fair I'll be looking at a brand new machine and am thinking of turning my old friend in to a Strawberry planter or something. If I lived in a big place I'd frame it.

John,
My good mate Javier Herranz has a wonderful display of old framing machines in his reception. Here is another old chopper, but not sure which make. Does anyone recognise it? Thats a motor at the bottom They are are all painted matt black. Makes a nice first impression.

Give it to Neil Stout (Framing Engineer) so he can put it on his stand at spring fair. He usually has an old morso on his stand to show people what can go wrong with them. By the end of the week he will have fixed and probably sold it knowing Neil.

By the way Robo I hope you are going to go for a Twin bladed saw this time

you mean your gonna put it in a shadow box!!!!

would melinex be strong enough ))

I've found you a replacement

Modern top of the range morso replacement

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Old-Heavy-Dut ... 35b801a16c

What a lovely old machine. Suspect Mrs AllFramed would be less than happy though if it turned up in the garage!

stevebowen wrote:I've found you a replacement

Modern top of the range morso replacement

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Old-Heavy-Dut ... 35b801a16c

See it sold for £194 - my E bay knowledge is very limited - but can see the same person kept bidding for it, even though no other bidders competing, seems odd.
But he didn't get it - sold to a new bidder. So why did he keep increasing his bids? Could he have been a mate of the seller?

Any E bay experts reading this?

To get the full picture of how an auction performed on EBay you need to see click the option to reveal the automatic bids, since all you need to do when bidding is to enter the highest price you're willing to pay at the start, and their systems will automatically place the lowest 'high bid' possible, then 'counter-bid' any competitive bid until your maximum is reached. It's quite an art to look at the whole list of bids at the conclusion in order to work out who bid what and when, as is occasionally necessary if, for example, some pondlife puts in a silly bid right at the end just to banjax the whole auction. Happens more than you might think, too!

I think the term is 'sniping' Tim. I think there is even software you can get that puts in a winning bid a few seconds before the close. What happens if two or more people are up to the same lark I do not know.

I don't mind 'sniping' if the 'shooter' is genuine, and pays up - that's all part of the game....it's when they do it deliberately with no intention of ever paying for an item that it becomes a nuisance. Also, as it's apparently impossible now (on Ebay) to leave negative or even neutral feedback for someone, it's very difficult to know whether any bid is from a genuine buyer or not!