A Welsh furniture maker’s challenge to woodworking machinery manufacturer Hoffman has led to a successful new range of Morso guillotines.
Gordon Cook, owner of Truwood Furniture, originally ordered a Hoffman MU2 keyway router and Morso guillotine two years ago to produce face frames for his bespoke cabinet furniture.
But Mr Cook found the cutting process on the Morso laborious. He was using it to cut two partial mitre angles into the frame before manually chiselling out the square face between them to accept the cross rail or style.
After challenging Hoffman to adapt the Morso to cut out the entire joint in one operation, a new version was devised with a guillotine knife and system of blocks. Further improvements suggested by Mr Cook included positioning of the workpiece, setting up stops and changing size and dimensions.
Face frames using the system were displayed at the IWF exhibition in Atlanta and a positive response from kitchen manufacturers prompted Morso to introduce the NF range of guillotines.
Hoffman says it now regularly sells the models alongside its keyways routers to kitchen and cabinet makers in the UK. Truwood Joinery has two of the machines.
