Best Tool for Trimming Furniture Boards: Table Saw, Hand-held Saw, or Good Jigsaw under PLN 200?

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Hello colleagues. I need to remake my furniture. The cuts will not be visible, but a precise cut will make the job easier. I would like to spend about PLN 200. I have a dilemma about buying it. I considered the following options. -Table saw. Plus that the material can be supported, but the tops...

Anonymous · Answer

I shortened the kitchen cabinet from 60cm to 55cm and used a Bosch jigsaw plus a piece of straight board and two carpentry clamps to attach the board to the countertop or side wall of the cabinet. Then you guide the jigsaw along the board. If the plates are lame (like IKEA kitchen cupboard sidewalls) then you will have an ugly cut line. I used Bosch saw blades for wood with large teeth.

Tomek515 · Answer

I need to do exactly what you do. All in all, a good idea with a jigsaw, because I don't care about the edges.

Anonymous · Answer

Before you start cutting, do a test piece to see how the jigsaw is handled. The edge seems to look better on the opposite side than you drive with the jigsaw - it has to do with how the teeth are pointed. Buy a new branded saw blade before cutting. You have to drive slowly, preferably when the other person vacuums the chips with a vacuum cleaner, you can see if you are driving evenly on the cutting line. I first draw the cutting line with a pencil, then set the board guide with a certain offset from the cutting line (about 32.5mm from the cutting line for my jigsaw) so that the saw blade is in the center of the line. When I cut, I press the foot of the jigsaw to the board.

Jawi_P · Answer

The harder the material, the smaller the teeth should be. And when it comes to furniture boards, the finer the tooth, the better. It does not matter whether the album is from Ikea or other Castorama. Somehow, furniture manufacturers cut these boards without problems. And a jigsaw is the worst possible tool for cutting boards. Buy / borrow a small payment and the effect will be better.

Anonymous · Answer

Cutting service by a professional on a format saw with a scoring unit.

William Bonawentura · Answer

If the cut is invisible or finished with a C profile, a hand-held saw will be sufficient. The jigsaw is suitable for holes for valves, sinks, etc.

Anonymous · Answer

The point here is not whether the material is hard - but the structure of the furniture board. The boards that make up the walls of the cupboards are made of large shavings that do not cut well. Kitchen worktops, on the other hand, are made of fine shavings and cut very nicely. But here I did not make comparative cuts with different blades (because I did not want to, all the cuts in the kitchen are invisible).

qwart · Answer

Hello You can use a hand-held circular saw to cut furniture boards. You will need a thin strip (it can be, for example: a floor panel), two clamps and paper adhesive tape. The strip is attached to the board with clamps, and the cutting lines are taped with tape so that the edge does not become excessively dented.

Anonymous · Answer

For these PLN 200, you can at most buy shields (they are specially profiled for MDF), otherwise the veneer will come off anyway. In addition, a saw that does not beat (~ PLN 500).
The cheaper square saw and Bosch universal blade will come out, and the jigsaw mentioned above will be the cheapest. However, the square saw is easier to cut straight, and tears less veneers than a jigsaw. From poverty, you can cut a millimeter / two further and sand it. Either way, you will not catch up with milling machines / saws with undercutting without sanding, even if you use a patent with a board underlay and taped.

qwart · Answer

I am not trying to convince anyone that my method is better than cutting with a saw with undercutting. The board in this case is to be used to guide the circular saw evenly, not to put it in place of the cut. The method is proven and in home conditions quite good.

William Bonawentura · Answer

Hand cutting with a Widia disc is very dangerous. You can buy a chainsaw for as little as PLN 200 and it will give an incomparably better effect than a jigsaw.

zbich70 · Answer

I use a hand saw with a Widia tooth.
Due to the limited space, I could not insert a typical table saw, so I made an adapter for mounting the hand saw on the edge of the table, with the blade facing up, fastened with carpentry clamps. I can also mount a jigsaw in the same adapter, also with the blade facing up. But a jigsaw does not work with thicker material, the saw blade "floats sideways" and the edge of the cut is always wavy.
I also have a 125mm angle grinder mounted on a tripod, lowered onto the element being cut. It works well in steel, wood, only ceramics have not been tried yet.

Tomek515 · Answer

I ordered a circular saw in one of the supermarkets. I think with your advice I will be able to get proper handling and a decent edge.

Tomek515 · Answer

So I bought a Parkside circular saw and if the 48 Z blade is good with good edges, you can't make a straight cut with this tool. I was guiding the saw on a board twisted with clamps, doing it very precisely. There is play on the adjustment all the time and it does not matter if I inquired or drove the tool very lightly, it was the same crap. For some rough cutting it will be fine. Soft start works fine.

Loker · Answer

How did you drive the saw? Have you used a parallel stop (a piece of flat bar attached to the saw body with adjustable extension)? Do not do this Rest the side of the saw's foot on the board screwed in with clamps (batten, angle bar) and lead it like that.

Tomek515 · Answer

Hahah, that's not what I didn't even put into the mount. I was running on a board or alu flat bar. I don't know why the cut comes out like this /
It's just how it is constructed. I imagine this, for example, cutting the soffit or formwork, not the furniture boards, where a difference of 2 mm over a certain length creates a problem. I bought a jigsaw from the same company and I suspect it could be done better with it.

gasak · Answer

A few questions: Was this board simple? What is this play on regulation? Maybe a flat bar is too thin. The feet of these circular saws are most often rounded at the edge and so it rode more than less on a flat bar. Recently, I trimmed the MDF band to the adjustable door frame with a quite tired Verto blade and saw (although as they say: this verto to ne verto) and no deviation on the length of 2m. Worse with the OSB board due to the shield and the structure of the board - the desired size, but too many burrs on one edge.

Tomek515 · Answer

A straight board and a flat bar later I found it better, thick, solid, perfectly straight. It was going straight. There is minimal play on the rivets to adjust the cutting angle (e.g. 45 degrees), it probably spoils the topic. I thought I'd throw it on the floor because I almost destroyed the material. When I cool down a bit, I will check if it is possible to somehow block it permanently so that this phenomenon does not occur.

qwart · Answer

This method for home conditions is the best, unfortunately, a poor-quality saw cannot be cut well. The board or flat bar must be sufficiently longer than the material being cut, so that the cutting line runs straight to the end.

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