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roykims

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i've found this place because on every search i do you all have at least one reference page showing. that's good enough for me. the last year i've been down with CHF and i need to use the hands more. i do a lot of photography and print most everything myself on a canon pro9000. i've also been mounting and matting my shots. i've been an interior finish carpenter for ever. have everytool you can think of but few actual framing tools. i.ve also been thru 3 mat cutters and have settled with a fletcher matmate. it's a nice tool.
today i picked up most of a C&H 60''pro for a song. there's no manual with it. that's my question. i've looked and looked with google to no avail. can someone point me in the correct direction??
also i'm beginning to make some frames and i'm looking for a pneumatic nailgun for v nails. is there such a thing??

TIA in advance,
roy
 
Welcome, Roy!

If you look under "Grumble Archive pre 2004 Topics" right at the top of the "Grumble" section, you'll see that the last topic discussed was about just such a gun.

Sounds like you might be natural for some serious, wood-only joinery, might give that a go too!
 
joinery is something i've done for the last 25years..
i saw the thread but can't find where to purchase it.. talked to pamfast and they said someone will contact me but they were a no show.
what i really need is the owners manual for the C&H..

roy
 
Hi Roy! Welcome to the Grumble! :icon21:

It looks like they've got you helped out with general info. on your cutter, so I'll contribute something else. One quick tip I can think of for cutting mats is this. It's about if you ever decide to weight the bottoms of your mats. If not, that's fine, but it's good to weight them at least 1/8 inch so the standard allowance of the frame doesn't make the top of the mat look wider than the bottom. I usually do about 1/4 inch, but more at the drop of a hat if it looks better.

For the sake of clarity, let's pretend that you're cutting a mat with the top and sides 3" wide and the bottom 4" wide. If you cut your outside periphery the exact final size it needs to be, you'll wind up having to change your measurement stops during cutting. What works well instead is to pretend that the whole mat is the widest width all the way around. So if you say it's 4" all around, cut your periphery to that size. Then cut your mat for that measurement, and afterward just trim the extra inch off the top and sides.

This worked really well for me before we got a computerized cutter. There might be people coming on here saying that it's easier just to change the stops, but for me it was far easier to do it this way. Changing the stops raised the likelihood of having different inner mat margins showing, and this method took away that risk. So, for what it's worth......
 
welcome, Roy...post often and hoe to hear from you on the grumble.
 
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