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Hi - I am just setting up and am about to agree to a £500 refurb on a used taurus underpinner. Before agreeing to this what does anyone think of the new Charnwood/framers corner M4. I will be using wide and sometimes heavy hard and softwood mouldings to frame mirrors. Any advice would be gratefully recieved - many thanks.

Malcolm

Hi Malcolm,

Welcome to the forum, sorry I can't answer your question about the M4 underpinner.

All the best,
Arthur

Hi Malcolm, welcome to the forum.

I too am unable to comment on the equipment you mentioned because we use another product. Sorry you haven't had a response to your question yet, that is very unusual on this forum and it might be that the question has been missed because it is in the introduction area.

It might be worth asking the question again under the "Help" topic area if it isn't too late to help you with your decision.

Good luck with your venture.

Rolf

On this thread a forum member, countrystudio, mentions they use an M4, you could PM them and get some feedback on it.

http://theframersforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6825

I use the M3 which is fine for every day moulding, but doesn't cope well with hard wood so I may upgrade in the future. I think the M4 is beefed up a bit and sould be fine. It has a handy way of swapping v-nails via a cartridge system I think, the M3 is a bit fiddly in this respect. I don't find the clamp on mine much use, it may be better on the M4. On the whole for 600 quid new you could do worse.

I would pay a bit more and get a new cassese. By far the best machines on the market IMHO