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Subject: [Leica] Urgent advice please - mat cutters
From: rdcb37 at dodo.com.au (Rick Dykstra)
Date: Thu Mar 10 02:43:29 2005
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Thanks Clay.  I bought a Logan, after seeing it and the other brands 
demonstrated by the guy there.  The Logan system looks good.  I've cut 
my first mat. It worked!   Rick.

On 10/03/2005, at 6:10 PM, R. Clayton McKee wrote:

> Maped I've never heard of, but I've used Logan stuff for about
> fifteen years and see no reason to think about changing.   I tried to
> economize and bought one of the little Dexter hand cutters before I
> realized that was a bad time to be cheap, and I will GLEEFULLY send
> said Dexter POS, for the cost of postage, to anyone I will never
> meet.  (I wouldn't wish it on a friend, but I'm too much of a Scot to
> throw it away and the world is full of strange people, so SOMEONE
> probably likes the things....)
>
> I'm currently using a 301S, the mini model, which came with straight
> and bevel cutters, eats anything up to 32", and has always done
> exactly what I wanted. Simple, easy to use, and difficult to screw
> up.  Perfect for me.
>
> The mat cutter at the framing shop / sales gallery I use works with a
> couple of commercial C&H rigs which are also very nice but quite
> larger than I want.
>
>
> On 10 Mar 2005 at 15:06, Rick Dykstra wrote:
>
>> I'll be shopping for a mat cutter in a couple of hours time - to make
>> mats for my nature prints.  Hopefully hundreds of them as the
>> weeks/months go by.  Does anyone have experience with mat cutters?
>> I'll need a DIY home use sort of mat cutter for making up many framing
>> mats for 5x7, 8x10 and 14x16 (?) size frames.  So the longest edge
>> would be about 16 inches.  The only bigger size would be 20 x 30, but 
>> I
>> think I'll outsource mats for prints of that size.
>>
>> The local art shop has brands called Maped, and Logan.  I know nothing
>> about these - never cut a mat before.
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