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Mountmaking Forum ›Arbor Press: Useful for mount making?

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Brooks Ward 7/30/18

Hi All-We just got a nice new 2-ton arbor press for our shop. I was wondering if anyone had tips or tricks for good ways to use it. We plan to make some templates for some of the more specific bends that we frequently make, but I wanted to see what the hivemind had as well. Thanks! -brooks ward

Pedro Viegas 8/1/18

Dear Brooks you can make a custom-made cutting end that will make the production of numerous standard sized pads/supports faster, quicker, accurate. See here the paper, in this case was to create thousands of standard sized padding rings of plastazote for micro specimens.