Cutting high pressure laminate or melamine

Sep 30, 2004 25 Replies

You are probably right. Does what you have seen have the same texture? Once applied, I looks just like the top and bottom of the Melamine boards. Trims with a razor blade or chisel. Also what I have seen is only in white although that may be the only color that the store stocks.

I used to use a similiar method until I bought one of those 48" straight edge clamp dealies like norm uses. You clamp it to the fence and there is a channel that the laminate slides into. You gotta do a little math for setting your width but it sure works slick. SH

Well, it has the texture of PVC.

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I like the overlapping idea cutting it with a router

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)... the edges may not be perfectly straight, but they will both be the exact same shape...

For that matter, you can trim it with a block plane and a scraper, too.

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