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I just got to make me one of these!

I normally use my fingers but the 45 degree groove looks useful. Do you think I should put one in one of my fingers or do you think the thumb would be a better idea?

Depends whether the framers ruler tattooed on your forearm is metric or imperial, really.

Think they went through the forum and got our e-mail addresses.

I got a mail from them this morning.

in my opinion its a solution to a problem i dont have !
and if i did, i could get a rectangular piece of plastic from somewhere

Had to laugh when I saw it was patent pending.

Personally I have 4 of these on each hand as well as two other devices for the tricky angles.

Also noticed just how long it took to seal the back compared with old fashioned digits.

The Crofter wrote: Also noticed just how long it took to seal the back compared with old fashioned digits.

And that didn't include the half hour spent trying to find it.

WelshFramer wrote: And that didn't include the half hour spent trying to find it.

thats a problem in our workshop, can spend hours looking for one of the 6 scalpels we have, they all seem to disappear, oh them and Measuring tapes.

I don’t fit my frames with tape like you guys do, so it wouldn’t interest me from the get-go. But, it seems to be a bit over engineered to me.

It reminds me of a pharmaceutical company that has developed a cure for a disease that nobody has.

The Crofter wrote: Personally I have 4 of these on each hand as well as two other devices for the tricky angles.

Also noticed just how long it took to seal the back compared with old fashioned digits.

After 23 years of pressing down backing tape, there is almost no fingerprint on the right index one and several of them are quite sore some days. It does take a toll!

I think this tool might have some value to some people! I'm not knocking it just yet!

Bill Henry wrote:....
It reminds me of a pharmaceutical company that has developed a cure for a disease that nobody has.

I think I've got that. I take these tablets to make me think im hallucinating, then life doesn't seem so bad, because it isn't real. is it.

is it

bugger

Kev,
No it isn't real.............you're hallucinating aren't you? It's a fragment of your imagination getting very excited!

kev@frames wrote:I take these tablets to make me think im hallucinating, then life doesn't seem so bad...

Couldn't let me have the number of your GP, by any chance?

GP

A sample of this tool just landed in my office from Oz.

First one to ask can borrow it for trial and comment.

can i try it please Martin?

DOH! just too late!

Grahame Case wrote: thats a problem in our workshop, can spend hours looking for one of the 6 scalpels we have, they all seem to disappear, oh them and Measuring tapes.

Hi Grahame,
Like yourself I kept loosing my scaples (lost my scrooples years ago) I collected some wine corks, as I have been know to like the odd glass of red wine and re-cycling, squashed them into a small tobbacco tin to form a mat which I now use to push my scaples in when not in use, saves me cutting myself when searcing the workbench. As for the tape I a got big bright orange one and some steel rules, I still loose the rules when I forget to hang them up.
Cheers MITREMAN

Graham - I've just caught up with this thread. Yes, I'm on hols next week, and will send it on the week after.

Ah - read down a bit further - maybe you can send it on to our East Anglian friend. Now, is he a tractorman or a canary? (let him explain)

Martin Harrold wrote:Ah - read down a bit further - maybe you can send it on to our East Anglian friend. Now, is he a tractorman or a canary? (let him explain)

not a problem martin, we shall pass it on to him, i presume canary is in reference to Norwich?