How Can RazorGage Cutting Technology Improve Commercial Glass Fabrication?
A while back, a storefront job taught me an expensive lesson. We cut the aluminum framing with hand-set stops, the glass arrived, and four openings wouldn’t seat properly. Every problem traced back to a stop that had crept a hair off. That job pushed me to research a RazorGage upcut saw . Here is what I tried, what went wrong, and what worked in my shop. Why I Started Looking at a RazorGage Upcut Saw I should be clear about one thing first: this saw doesn’t cut my glass. What it cuts is the aluminum framing, mullions, and glazing stops that hold the glass. The glass can be perfect and still fail if the frame is off by a sixteenth. Our problems were: Lengths that varied from the first piece to the fiftieth Miters that opened up at the corners Operators tired by the afternoon, and mistakes that came with it Scrap aluminum piling up next to the saw What I Tried Before (and Why It Didn’t Work) I didn’t jump straight to a new machine. I tried the cheaper fixes first: Tape measure and a manu...