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Title: Cutting high gloss base end panels
Post by birty on Aug 9^th, 2009, 12:08pm

Got to cut some Howdens kitchen high gloss base and tower end panels and unsure what tool -blade or method to use to get a clean cut. Suggestions please?? :-?

Title: Re: Cutting high gloss base end panels
Post by woodsmith on Aug 9^th, 2009, 12:28pm

Depends what sort of equipment you have at your disposal?

List in approx order of ease/success

Table saw with scribing knife
Table saw with negative rake blade
Festool saw and guide rail
Cut 5mm away from the edge with a circular saw or jigsaw then trim with a router against a straight edge
Scribe with a stanley knife then cut close to the edge with a saw, plane the last bit away by hand

If you know someone with a panel saw they could cut them quickly and easily, you are a bit too far away from me to make it practical for me to do it.

Title: Re: Cutting high gloss base end panels
Post by TIMBA-WOLF on Aug 9^th, 2009, 6:57pm

always, and i mean always cut the panel, with the best side facing against the blade direction, (basically with the good face down) as this allows the teeth to come up to and cut through the face material rather than coming out from behind it, pushing it forward and splintering the edge...

i have tried on scrap laminate and the usual Howdens special of white shrunk to fit plastic faced boards, and even used a well past best 190MM x 24teeth circ saw blade, and providing the face was against the direction of the teeth (upside down for circ saws 0R on top if using a bench saw/table saw) you get a better cut..

you just need to cut through the face materials first...

the use of the BLUE masking tape on the cutting line helps also, why the blue works better i ain't gopt a clue, but it must be due to the non standrd adhesive...

Title: Re: Cutting high gloss base end panels
Post by birty on Aug 9^th, 2009, 8:34pm

Circular saw is prob my best tool then but how many teeth do you suggest the blade has. (I will have a dummy run on some spare first)

Title: Re: Cutting high gloss base end panels
Post by TIMBA-WOLF on Aug 9^th, 2009, 9:14pm

The more the merrier, preferably triple chip toothed to boot...

one thing, and i am not teaching you or any one to suck eggs here, but just make sure that you set the depth correctly, and not like a Joiner i had to correct last week ( complete tosser) who cutting a 1/2 " panel down had the full 3" of the blade on offer... just enough to show the gullet between the blades teeth..... or you end up causing the saw to work harder, over heat the cut and blade and risk damage to the panel....

again, i am not teaching anyone to suck eggs , but i am seeing this costly mistake more and more just recently.......

now why am i seeing a turn round in prospective staff!!! Hmmm i wonder....

Title: Re: Cutting high gloss base end panels
Post by birty on Aug 9^th, 2009, 9:41pm

Big Ta...nuff wrong wiv sucking eggs now and again. :P Every days a schoolday. gonna see what screw fix can flog me for my circy saw... :)

Title: Re: Cutting high gloss base end panels
Post by Joiner on Aug 10^th, 2009, 8:32am

And table saw blade set at minimum height is important for safety too. Better to have 6mm ploughing into your flesh than 30!

OK, so I've got the end of one finger missing. It's a long story.

Title: Re: Cutting high gloss base end panels
Post by Lectrician on Aug 10^th, 2009, 5:59pm

Is that why you type so slow? [smiley=rotfl.gif]

Title: Re: Cutting high gloss base end panels
Post by TIMBA-WOLF on Aug 10^th, 2009, 7:20pm

he just types with a stutter D_ar Ch_p!!!!

L_L!!!!!

;D

Title: Re: Cutting high gloss base end panels
Post by Joiner on Aug 10^th, 2009, 8:21pm

Not funny at the time. My mate nearly passed out.

He said: "What have you done?"

I said: 'I'm not sure and I don't really want to look.'