Wizard cutting the new Chenille mats?

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Awhile back, on another thread, someone stated that the new Bainbridge mats were difficult to cut with the Wizard.

We sold several of these today and now I'm wondering how I'm to cut them. Remove the backing board from Wizard? (tried that to cut an 8-ply and it worked)

Edd from Wizard scolded me before when I stated I could cut 8-ply on the Wizard; he said I may damage the motors. I stopped.

Am I going to damage the motors cutting through these Chenilles? If so I'll use my big manual Fletcher, which we still use for the 8-plys.

Many thanks for any answers.
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Michael,

If my message on the previous thread you spoke of, sounded like a "scolding" I apologize. I believe the thread spoke of the Wizard Help Desk personnel not knowing that the Wizard would cut 8 ply. My comments were more about our "stated policy" rather than scolding our customers who were cutting 8 ply. Our experience with 8 ply at this point is inconclusive, it may or may not put too much strain on the motors. To the best of my knowledge we have not yet had a machine experience service problems due to cutting 8 ply.

However, we still don't claim we can do it.

Under promise and over deliver is our preferred position.
 
I cut 35 chenille mats on a Wozard. The Wizard belonged to Rob Markoff and his assistant Jeff helped me. I know he removed the regular sized skip sheet but still had a slip sheet in it. The chenille had to be pushed carefully behind the clamp, it didn't want to go, but did with an extra push. The Wizard actually cut the chenille better than I am able to cut by hand, cleaner. We changed the blade often.

Nona Powers, CPF, GCF
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I keep a 40 x 60 slip on the Wizard; on top of this we put a 32 x 40 flaw board slip sheet that we change often.

I haven't yet cut any of the chenile mats but when I'm having trouble getting a balky suede mat to fit into the machine I pull the flaw board back away from the clamps; position the suede where it belongs, then slide the flaw board between the suede and the bottom slip sheet until it is under the clamps as well.

Perhaps this would help with the chenile?

Kit
 
Nona and Kit:

Many thanks for the information. that's what I'll do when I cut them.

Edd; No, I didn't think you were scolding.
 
Originally posted by tnframer408:
We sold several of these today and now I'm wondering how I'm to cut them.......??????
Michael,

CMC's of course have advantages over professional manual equipment, but they also have limitations where sometimes manual equipment might out perform. As I had already successfully cut surface V-grooves in Bainbridge silk mats on our Fletcher F-6100, I was curious about how the Chenille's would cut. (This same query had appeared on the PPFA Online Exchange.)

While working this weekend at the NRC PPFA trade show in Butte, Montana, I grabed two samples of the new Chenilles from the NB rep. (He also was interested.) They cut beautifully!

For those that have Fletcher F-6100's, I simply used the 6ply blade magazine, and adjusted the over/undercut settings - User defined (slightly more than 4ply - slightly less than 6ply).

Other CMC's (Wizard, Eclipse, etc.) should be able to handle this board.

Some framers find the bumps along the fabric edge distracting. This is obviously a characteristic of the coarser material. For thosed that don't like this appearance, the solution is to cut shallow, and hand wrap the bevels!

Regards,

John
 
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