Gielle Underpinner - help please!

[kdubben]

Hi,
I am relatively new to this game and have just disovered this forum which I hope will be the answer to all my problems! I am struggling with my secondhand Gielle underpinner, model no. FL100MP, made in Padova, Italy. I think I have got the basic idea, but as I never seem to get a good join I do not think I am using all the knobs and levers properly. Does anyone out there have a set of instructions for it, or something similar? I have photos of the machine, but am having trouble uploading them! I think it is quite old, but still appears to be in good working order.
Many thanks
Kate

[John]

Welcome to the forum, Kate.

I have photos of the machine, but am having trouble uploading them!

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If you need further help, please let me know.

John

[Not your average framer]

Hi Kate,

Welcome to the forum. I suggest you try contacting Wessex Pictures as they sell them and are generally very helpful too.

[kdubben]

Thank you, John. I think I need to reduce the pictures in size - I thought I had done that but it still said there were too many pixels!

[kdubben]

Thanks, 'not your average framer' (what do you frame?!) I will contact Wessex and see what they say. Kate

[Not your average framer]

Thanks, 'not your average framer' (what do you frame?!)

Hi Kate,

I guess you are wondering why am I "Not your average framer"?

Well, I like to be a little different and do different things to what my competitors do, because it's good for business. I have a lots of really old mouldings (many now obsolete) and antique prints. Customers often come to me to get old things framed to look old. I'm hooked on hand-finishing mouldings to create or reproduce whatever my customers are looking for. I also design my own mouldings and get them machined to order.

I'm also daft enough to argee to frame things that most framers can't be bothered with doing, sometimes I wish I hadn't bothered either. My shop is cluttered, it's not really big enough for what's in it and it a bit of a throwback to bygone days. It wasn't planned like that, it's just like that. My wife says I'm just untidy, but fortunately people seem to like it like that.

Having had a heart attack and now relying on medication to keep me functioning, I can't do things as fast as before and specialising in things which others don't do has helped me a lot. So there you are I'm "Not your average framer" and it's fun not worrying about keeping up with the rat race.

[kdubben]

Sounds great, 'not your average framer'. Once I have mastered the basics, I hope to do something similar. I have lots of ideas, but unfortunately not the expertise! (nor the time!!). Going back the the Gielle Underpinner, I have drawn a blank on the particular model I have, but am now searching for instructions for the F1065 model which looks the same as mine but newer and shinier! Wessex Pictures have been very helpful so far, as you suggested. Will keep you posted. Thanks, Kate.