Getting a straight Edge

[ado]

Hi,

Due to following some bad advise and against better judgement, I ended up cutting a section of a wooden worktop using a jig saw. Despite using a wooden batton as a straight edge to guide the jigsaw and a good jigsaw, the end of the work top is not perfectly straight and naturally enought when butt jointed to another worktop it doesnt join seemlessly. I didnt have a router or access to one but I will have one this weekend. Will it be possible to smooth off and straighten the end of the worktop with out taking much off it. As it is the work top is cut to leave a 5-6mm gap at the edges so I cant really afford too loose anymore off the end.

Also the walls are not straight more \_| than |_| shaped. When the the

3 pieces are line up perfectly there is a 5mm gap from the wall at one end and a 13mm gap at the far end. What the best way to accommodate this?

Cheers for any good advise A.

[dom]

A router will certainly clean up the edge nicely - if you have a hefty enough router and long enough bit. Run it against a batten clamped to follow the edge, and work down to the full depth in several passes. As always practice on some scrap! If you're not familiar with safe router usage,then read up on it.

As far as the non-rectangular kitchen goes, the answer is to scribe the worktops in situ to find the actual angles - not to assume it will be 90 degrees.

[dennis]

hope you left enough spare to do it.. if not you will need a cover strip/splash back.

[Tony]

You could always dig into the walls slightly if it would help.

[The Medway Handyman]

A router will need multiple passes to trim a thick chipbioard worktop. Circular saw with fairly fine blade and one of these;

[The Natural Philosopher]

Actually, I find it better to run full depth, but only take off a mm at a time.

Use a clamped in batten as a guide and another bit of worktop to support the other side of the router, and always have the blade edge pushing into the cutting direction.