Anybody remember...

A decade or two ago there was a production cutter advertised in the trade mags that worked from master templates. It was for repetitive mass cutting, worked on a pantograph like arrangement as I remember. Sort of like a New Hermes Engraver. Seems like the cutter head was actuated by air pressure?

What was the name of the thing...and does anybody have one laying around they want to get rid of?

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Moonraker
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My late brother designed one of these in the early 70's for production lamp work. He gave the thing to Bilco in exchange for 2 prototypes. I had one made for me when I was making lamp kits, and then sold mine years ago. I had a production line with one person making glass strips, the next using the machine to score the shape on them, the next person breaking the pieces out. It was called an Odd Shaped Cutter, and used plexi templates. It used a small compressor to force a cutting head down to score a strip of glass. Unless you're doing alot of repetition, it's not of any practical use. It takes longer to make the templates, and tweak the operation, then it would to cut 100 pieces by hand. I'm pretty sure I lost touch with several folks that still used one over the years, but I'll give it a try.

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jksinrod

Small world, eh?

I have an idea that might entail some serious basement banditry activity. I looked at the Cutters' Mate with the idea of rigging up a "duplicator" but it didn't seem possible. Then I remembered the Bilco..

Do you remember what is the maximum size piece that could be cut?

Reply to
Moonraker

We used it for lamp pieces, so the throat was probably no bigger than

4-5". The plexi templates were made on 6 x 6's, fit as many as a dozen shapes on each one.
Reply to
glassman

These machines have probably all migrated to the Far East or to basements in Canada, eh?

Reply to
Moonraker

Eh, not all of Canada, just Victoria . . .

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Brock

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