cutting beveled edge

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southernmoon

southernmoon

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This is my first post to the Grumble even thought I have been a member for about a year. This is the first place I look when I need help framing.

I am top mounting a photo to a matboard. When I use my Fletcher 2100 to cut around the photo, the corners extend further than the sides. What am I doing wrong?

SouthernMoon
 
Southernmoon -
Are you cutting on the bevel side or the straight side of your 2100? I'm not quite sure what you mean by the "corners extend further than the sides" - but when we trim a mounted photo, we just align the edge of the photo w/ the guide of the straight side of the cutter which gives us a nice flush trim. Welcome to The Grumble!
 
If you want them beveled, mount them on a larger board and trim out like you are doing a mat opening. Give yourself a 1/2 or 1 inch head start instead of the 3/16 or so as on a regular mat and you will get perfect corners. You get "hooks" by cutting a whole side off then rotating and cutting the next side etc.
 
Hi Southernmoon,

Sounds to me like you are cutting a smallar mat?

Try (use a slip mat with no pre-cuts that the new blade might follow) and sandwich the mat that you are cutting between a scrap mats placed before and after.

Good luck
 
Thanks for the help! I knew there was an easy solution.
I cut the sides just like I was cutting a regular mat and it turned out great.
 
Southern,

Just out of curiousity, how were you cutting the edges BEFORE you started cutting them like you do regular mats?

Framerguy
 
I was cutting the whole side off the mat. I first had it setup like I would cut a v-groove with the mat sandwiched between two other mats, but I was still getting the "hook" at the end.
 
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