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Pro tip: switching to a 60 tooth blade on my miter saw cleaned up my end cuts overnight
Last month I was tearing out birch ply edges on every face frame cut, so I swapped my 40 tooth combo blade for a 60 tooth fine finish one and the fuzz basically disappeared on the first cabinet. The trade off is it cuts slower through 8/4 maple, but for prefinished ply sides I'll never go back. Anyone running a dedicated blade for melamine or do you just tape the cut line?
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adamr1418d ago
The 60 tooth swap making the fuzz disappear on the first cabinet matches what a buddy of mine ran into last fall. He was building a run of shop cabinets out of prefinished ply and got so fed up with chipping that he bought a blade made just for melamine and laminate. The thing has a triple chip grind and he swears the cut edges look like they came off a table saw with a fresh blade. Only catch is you have to slow your feed way down and let the blade do the work, because pushing it just burns the edges. He tried the tape trick first and it helped some, but nothing like having the right teeth on there. The other thing he told me is to keep that blade only for sheet goods, because one rip through a scrap of pressure treated and the tips are done.
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