Following-on from the earlier questions, it would be quite good to have a T-shaped door mat. Before I buy a cheapie to experiment, has anyone tried cutting them with a bandsaw?
Dave
Following-on from the earlier questions, it would be quite good to have a T-shaped door mat. Before I buy a cheapie to experiment, has anyone tried cutting them with a bandsaw?
Dave
I doubt it. Bandsaws hate fibrous stuff as it tends to clog around the lower guide.
I have cut matting like this before using a jigsaw with a "breadknife" blade in it: the sort with a wavey knife edge.
Can I be the first to suggest an angle grinder?
I suppose the band saw might be OK with a bit of scrap plywood under the mat.
How did they get it off the roll at the supplier?
Strong scissors? Tin snips?
regards
Aha! Thanks, I should have thought of that.
We have some rubbery-backed coir matting which the carpet fitters cut to shape to fit our front door lobby - sort of trapezoidal shaped. They used a stanley knife.
Gordon
Sharp knife would be best. Known as a shoe knife or sometimes a lino knife.
My thoughts is it might clog. I'd use tin snips.
Same here - I have a recess built into my laminte flooring in the hall. Cutting the coir matting to shape with a Stanley knife was no problem.
I'm wondering if the OP maybe means one of those mats made out of interlocking rubbery loops and "piano wire" in a woven-looking pattern?
Regards, Simon.
Do you have a pic of one Dave? If so,
The job's now done. It's easy to buy mats by the metre, and straightforward to cut them to shape using a sharp stanley knife from the rear. Thanks for the earlier comments.
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