MORSO Blade

Sharpening Service

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News and Updates

12th July 2008

What has been happening at Cathandon?

We have had a busy couple of  months since our last update. On 17th May we were awarded finalist in the Innovation Award, The Art and Framing Industry Awards 2008 for our blade sharpening service. We feel very proud to have achieved this within the first year of introducing this service for you, our customers. Last month saw the first anniversary of our blade sharpening service. We have welcomed customers from across the UK to include Angela Davidson Art in Aberdeenshire, Nigel Hooper from Derry, Northern Ireland and more recently Stephen Doak from the Frame Factory in Islington.

Through the success of our blade sharpening service we are now approved suppliers of MORSO blades and accessories and would like to thanks Claus and Tove Pedersen of Danlist-morso for supporting us in this venture.

As many of you will know we plan to take our annual summer holiday from 26th July to 10th August. This year we have decided to take a busman's holiday and travel from our base in Grangemouth to the South West of England. The aim being to find out more about our customers and how we can continue to support them. We are not sure where the days will take us but don't be surprised if we pop in and say hello.

Whatever you are doing this summer enjoy it.

Gordon and Jess Cunningham

2nd May 2008

Cathandon make it to the Finals 2008

Cathandon have been selected as one of the finalist for this years Innovation Award in The Art and Framing Industry Awards 2008 - click here

16th March 2008

New Online Blade Sharpening booking service

Customers can now book in for blade sharpening outwith normal office hours. Due to customer feedback we have introduced an online request form for our blade sharpening service. -click here

8th January 2008

Cathandon Awarded the Guild of Master Craftsman click for more

16th October 2007

What our customers are  saying !! - click for more

18th June 2007

Latest development in MORSO knife sharpening comes to Scotland

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Cathandon selected for The Art and Framing Industry Awards Finals 2008

Cathandon Quality Framing Services based in Grangemouth have been selected as one of six finalists for Innovation at this years Art and Framing Awards, the industry’s premier awards.

Gordon Cunningham, owner of Cathandon said that he “is overwhelmed by being selected as a finalist. We are just a small family picture framing business and it’s a great feeling being able to compete at this level.

Cathandon offer high quality picture framing services to customers throughout Scotland and more recently has introduced a new blade sharpening service for which it has been nominated, specifically for picture framers across the UK. “Since the introduction of the blade sharpening service we have been able to help many framers across the UK and we have just welcomed our first customer from the Republic of Ireland”.

The Art & Framing Industry Awards, hosted by the Fine Art Trade Guild, are the industry's premier awards. Each year they bring together all sectors of the industry - businesses large and small - in a celebration of art and framing's biggest successes and greatest achievements over a 12 month period.

The winners of this year’s Art & Framing Awards will be announced at the Awards Ceremony at the Redwood Hotel in Bristol on May 17^th.

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Cathandon Awarded the Guild of Master Craftsmen                 

Someone who cares about customers and the services they receive, someone whose business has been awarded the Guild's Certificate of Quality and Service.

Cathandon are delighted to be awarded membership to the Guild of Master Craftsmen. The Guild's reputation for quality, craftsmanship and service has been earned over many years and brings together all skilled people engaged in crafts, arts, trade and professions or vocations in order to safeguard the interests of craftsmen and the public.

Gordon said " Its is a great accolade for me and my business and I am very proud to have been awarded membership to the Guild. The assessment to become a member was very rigorous and it will help to distinguish my skills as a picture framer as well as the expertise and integrity of my business to my customers.

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Latest development in MORSO knife sharpening comes to Scotland.

Cathandon are please to announce the introduction of a new knife sharpening service for its customers.

The machine is an automatic knife grinder, designed and built by MORSO (Danlist) in Denmark specifically for the picture framing industry and is the first machine of its kind to be introduce into the UK.

The machine sharpens blades to 30 degrees, known as hollow ground and is recommended by MORSO who supply the industry with guillotine mitres.

Gordon Cunningham GCF and owner of Cathandon  was frustrated by the knife sharpening options available for picture framers in Scotland and the resulting effects. Gordon said

" I wanted to improve the blade sharpening services available for picture framers and from discussions found that no-one was willing to offer the services we need, so I decided it was time to take action"

"The new machine was installed on 11th June and all our staff have been fully trained by MORSO to ensure that we can give fellow picture framers a superior service"