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frameconscience
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For the third time in the past several years, The Fletcher-Terry Company has pulled yet another overhyped product from the market, leaving us with a virtually worthless piece of equipment.
The most immediate impact of Fletcher's decision is that your now discontinued FT6100, is suddenly an obsolete product (can you say, "Yugo?") whose residual value is drastically reduced.
That's right, the computerized mat cutter you spent more than $20,000 for is is now "a rental machine" and the lease expires in only seven years.
It's a shame too, because the 6100 is actually a good machine. Sure, it's way overpriced - this is the same technology used in plotter-type printers, and for cutting vinyl sign lettering - but except for a few cumbersome user interface flaws, the 6100 is a great piece of equipment, which is something that can't be said of Fletcher's other recent abortions - namely it's manual and pneumatic underpinners.
Poorly conceived - let's make a giant point driver and call it an underpinner! - and inadequately tested, the Fletcher underpinners were some of the worst products in the history of the industry. They belong in the Framing Hall of shame along with the Omega Saw and the Mat Maestro.
Maybe Fletcher should stick to making simple tools like manual mat cutters. You really can't screw up a razor blade on a train track. Can you?
The most immediate impact of Fletcher's decision is that your now discontinued FT6100, is suddenly an obsolete product (can you say, "Yugo?") whose residual value is drastically reduced.
That's right, the computerized mat cutter you spent more than $20,000 for is is now "a rental machine" and the lease expires in only seven years.
It's a shame too, because the 6100 is actually a good machine. Sure, it's way overpriced - this is the same technology used in plotter-type printers, and for cutting vinyl sign lettering - but except for a few cumbersome user interface flaws, the 6100 is a great piece of equipment, which is something that can't be said of Fletcher's other recent abortions - namely it's manual and pneumatic underpinners.
Poorly conceived - let's make a giant point driver and call it an underpinner! - and inadequately tested, the Fletcher underpinners were some of the worst products in the history of the industry. They belong in the Framing Hall of shame along with the Omega Saw and the Mat Maestro.
Maybe Fletcher should stick to making simple tools like manual mat cutters. You really can't screw up a razor blade on a train track. Can you?