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Could be a steal for someone. For the record not my listing but I have the same machine and it’s been a game changer for my mires/joins after becoming underwhelmed with my morso performance. Brand new these would be £10k, second hand newer models circa £2k. Worth a look if you are seeking a cheap al...

Genius! All over this already!

Where did you position yourself on this one in the end Justin? Did you get the job?

Hi Fruitini, Not used omer, but used both 18ga brads and 23ga pin nails for fixing big thin mouldings. I have 2 separate guns, a stanley 18ga nailer and axminster pin nailer (25mm pins max). I have had them for years with no issues. You can switch guns without dropping air pressure so switching is ...

Oak faced ply could be an option for your backing board if you are looking for that all round oak look

In preference to hijack a topic rather than start another thread I wondered if I could move this discussion on to nail guns, in particular brad guns and headless pinners. Its high time I added one of these to my arsenal. I am finding a real trend for narrow tall mouldings at the moment (particularly...

Hi James! Welcome to the forum. Most suppliers sell a very similar range of core mouldings. If you spread your offerings over a few suppliers you won’t be able to build up your purchase volumes to secure the very best discounts so as a start up it makes sense in the first instance to build up a rela...

That's not enough to scare off any of my customers imo. One of the best pieces of advice I ever took on board (which probably came from this forum…!) was if no-one ever tells you that your price is too expensive, then you aren’t charging enough! We never used to get any kickbacks on price and I nev...

Actually the £102 job would be £109.50 now as we didn’t used to charge for a backboard within our pricing structure but we do now.

Seems like you might be leaving a little on the counter Justin. That’s only an 8% increase over three years whereas inflation in that time would be something like 15%. I called up all our jobs during 2019 that we charged £88 for and there were 4! At todays prices the same orders would be priced at £...

Any tips for removing scuff marks from suedette mountboard? Only slight marks but noticeable. These boards are so hard to keep pristine...

Does a manual cutter set itself up then?! You crack on and cut thousands of extra thick mounts by hand then! I’m happy with a few button taps! I’m confident I could cut 50 different mounts twice as fast on a CMC, they’d all be bang accurate and the arthritis wouldn’t be screaming!

I expect to require about 50 of these per week. If things take off how I hope they will the thing that concerns me is the volume of repetitive mounts to cut hence looking at maybe bringing it in house from the start and it being automated. Absolutely not an indulgence IMO. 50 per week is over 2500 ...

In addition to what’s been said the technical support with a CMC is as important as the machine itself. So much can (and will) go wrong. Cutting 3mm plus boards really put these machines through their paces and any problems will be magnified on thick boards. A Valiani bought through TGS Repairs will...

Haha half a broom left! Will have to hire some dwarfs!

All sorted! That was a fun build. Thanks for the advice. ‘Rate my rack’…..! (Don’t google that….)

Any ‘give’ in your equipment will have a detrimental effect on your mitres when joining oak. A soft pad will almost certainly be causing you issues. The Perspex hack might improve things but if the pad is soft there will still be some give. I’m not sure what underpinner you have but is it possible t...

Thanks Nick, really useful. Have very similar planned so reaffirms my idea. Will do narrower gaps on mine I think as we will be painting all sizes of picture frames. Have only really got space for 60cm poles (or half a broom handle…! :lol:) so plan to put a batten across the end of a couple of rows ...

Thought it would be interesting to see if others had developed simple hacks and methods to improve life using picture framing machinery. A couple of very simple additions to my minigraf make me smile (simple pleasures….!). I now stick a piece of removable tape on the back edge of my underpinner fenc...