Oval cutter - free to a good home?

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Macfadden

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With the advent of CMCs, having this piece of equipment that looks like a medieval torture device but is actually a vintage C&H oval cutter taking up space is getting harder and harder to justify. I have a hard time getting rid of anything and in this case it is a physical issue. Weighing about 70 lbs with numbers of 34/42/13 it is not easy to stow.

Is there a market for these or is there a framer out there who wants to make an offer? In its day this thing was a workhorse and can still cut an oval but I just don't need it anymore.

Pam MacFadden
Macfadden Art & Framing
Miami (where we just got winter - plummeted to 65!)
 
When I got my Fletcher 3000 oval cutter, I gave my C&H to a photographer near us who happens to restore cars. It needed some work and he was able to fix it and use it. He mainly sells his work at art shows. Maybe an artist or someone like that in your area would be interested. You probably want to avoid shipping it. :eek:
 
Pam,
What is the status of the oval cutter, and will it also cut glass in ovals? Do you have a manual and/or video with it?
Curious and somewhat interested
 
The value of used C & H or Carithers oval cutters five years old or older is truly close to $ 0. We have had two on our used equipment list for three years now and nary a bite on either of them. Their used value fell like Enron stock when Fletcher first came on the market with their F1000 followed by the F1100.

$200 US$ for one would be like the seller winning the Saturday night quick pick lottery.

The other problem is that for the seller to ship it they are looking at an hour labour minimum to build an adequate crate to ship it. When we have shipped them in the past we have built the crate using a pallet as the base. They are such a finicky and tweak sensitive cutter the last thing the seller needs is for it to arrive with "perceived" damage. Drive to Vancouver to pick it up and the one we own is yours for free.

I think that John Gornall who owns the other one sitting on our used equipment shelf is close to offering the same deal !

Alan
 
Framefolk

I wrote the interested parties individually but just to reiterate Alan's post - here's the denouement of this particular oval cutter.

I'm afraid it's slipped away into the ether that is a sales rep's van. The thing was really a monster and although serviceable it would not have been worth the money to ship anywhere. Trust me! So when a rep stopped by my shop late one afternoon, I spotted a victim immediately. He thinks he'll find someone who can use it - who knows he might even sell it but I just hope it finds a good home. It left with all the extra parts and the manual (video shmideo - these instructions could have been written on stone tablets).

In my youth I cut lots of multiple opening mats with ovals and some Kobe corners (I still have the piece 'cause it was mine- no one else would pay for all that time) but I'm older and wiser now and a Wizard CMC is winging its way to my home and heart on Monday. I can't wait! ! !

Pam MacFadden
 
Ron

Like Smith and Barney say - the old fashioned way. By hand!

Exacto knife and a glass cutter in a steady hand. I was never very good at cutting oval glass on that machine anyway. It was always easier to cut it by hand.

Pam
 
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