"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:
What was the first cut done with causing those chips in the laminate?

Handheld circular saw - just to take the (not inconsiderable) weight of
the offcut out of the equation.

That's my tool of choice for cutting laminate faced board. With a decent
and sharp tipped blade and using a straight batten as a guide you'll not
get any chipping.


Two things:

I don't trust the '90 degree' setting on the circular saw and the 'upward
cut' is what causes the chipping - the shape of the worktop (D face on the
front edge) and the angles of the cut made it too risky to try and 'mark
round' to the other side.

Asitappens, the circular saw didn't quite cut all the way through the depth
of the worktop!


Sawing something like this by hand is too much like hard
work for my liking - I'd rather spend the time listening to my music. ;-)


It wasn't *that* hard and the music is on non-stop - I reckon I've listened
to more CDs in the last few weeks than in my lifetime to date!!