joinerdan
Member
Hello all. i have been a long time lurker of the forum but ashamedly have never posted. as i have usually have been able to find the answers i have been looking for through my lurking skills. and i must say i find it to be a gold mine of information as well as inspiration. i am not a furniture maker/cabinet maker by trade but a joiner.and find the work displayed on the forum to be wonderfull.
my question today is kitchen fitting related and whilst im no stranger to installing kitchens of various brands. (sadly are my own bespoke builds or designs) the problem im having is trimming the melamine edge banding to the worktops. my usual method is to attach with contact adhesive then plane back to near finnish with a sharp block plane and finnaly finnish with a file. but to speed things up i bought a small makita laminate trimmer and a bearing guided cutter. so set up with a worktop offcut i fixed the edge banding and gave the trimmer a whirl. the results however were wholly unnaceptable. the cutter whilst not aparent to touch but visible to the eye had took a layer of the melamine off leaving a poor finnish. am i missing somthing?? are the bearing cutters not that acurate?? has anyone else encountered this?. in the end i tapped w/tp edge with masking tape and even a layer of masking tape around the bearing to try to offset the cutter with much better results but increasing time spent and possibly not as good a finish as i could achieve with a block plane and a file!.
i appriacate the question is not in relation to the usual high caliber work displayed on the forum but im a little dismayed having forked out for somthing that doesnt seem to doing what i want
thnks in advance, and my appologies if i have waffled on.
sorry mods if this is in the wrong section.
Dan
my question today is kitchen fitting related and whilst im no stranger to installing kitchens of various brands. (sadly are my own bespoke builds or designs) the problem im having is trimming the melamine edge banding to the worktops. my usual method is to attach with contact adhesive then plane back to near finnish with a sharp block plane and finnaly finnish with a file. but to speed things up i bought a small makita laminate trimmer and a bearing guided cutter. so set up with a worktop offcut i fixed the edge banding and gave the trimmer a whirl. the results however were wholly unnaceptable. the cutter whilst not aparent to touch but visible to the eye had took a layer of the melamine off leaving a poor finnish. am i missing somthing?? are the bearing cutters not that acurate?? has anyone else encountered this?. in the end i tapped w/tp edge with masking tape and even a layer of masking tape around the bearing to try to offset the cutter with much better results but increasing time spent and possibly not as good a finish as i could achieve with a block plane and a file!.
i appriacate the question is not in relation to the usual high caliber work displayed on the forum but im a little dismayed having forked out for somthing that doesnt seem to doing what i want
thnks in advance, and my appologies if i have waffled on.
sorry mods if this is in the wrong section.
Dan