[danpen]

Figured I'd like to cut my own mounts, I like the nice bevelled edge so has anyone used one of these, are they any good? Any other recommendations? Should I just buy the mounts?

Longridge, the mount cutters people

cheers

Dan

[Dabhand16]

I think that if you are going to use a lot of mounts, it is worth doing it yourself. If you are only going to need one every now and again, I'd buy one either ready-made or custom made in the local framing shop.

Whipspeed gave a link to the one she uses recently and gave it the thumbs up.

[silkstone]

I don't have one, but if I did it would be a Longridge.

Does that make sense?

One of the problems with cutting your own mounts is that there's a lot of waste unless you make mounts of many different sizes - like Russian dolls fitting one inside the other.

[sawdust]

I have a mount cutter it works fantastic and you can cut the mount to suit the photo cost me 80 quid though

[danpen]

Thanks for you comments so far,

I don't mind too much if the tool costs a bit, after all it should last and once it's paid for it's done. Is the mount card expensive? It might put me off if I was spending a fortune on consumables.

cheers

Dan

[Whipspeed]

Longridge are very good cutters and so easy to use. Mount board in my local stationers is £2.49 for A1 size. I can get about 4 mounts for 10 x 8 prints from that, plus a couple of smaller ones and the cut out from the 10x8 is used for smaller prints. I charge £1.50 per mount for a 10x8, so get the money back plus a bit.

[danpen]

whipspeed, that's what I needed to know to make up my mind,

thanks

Dan

[Whipspeed]

No problems Dan. If you get one and need any help with cutting the mounts, just PM me.