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Crazy Cooter:
You just need a razor blade or exacto knife for that vinyl you bought. Routers with trim bits are for laminate like countertops. Totally different materials.
drventure:
--- Quote from: Crazy Cooter on September 22, 2012, 03:59:09 pm ---You just need a razor blade or exacto knife for that vinyl you bought. Routers with trim bits are for laminate like countertops. Totally different materials.
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+1 It looks like you picked up vinyl. Nothing wrong with that, it's just not as hard or tough as actual laminate. The difference is that laminate typically comes in sheets (or VERY stiff rolls), whereas vinyl is really flexible.
That's a nice router btw.
Chalk it up as a misfire, tear the vinyl off and then either.
1) pick up some more vinyl, apply, squeegee the bubbles out and trim with a sharp knife.
or
2) pick up some black laminate (formica, etc), glue it down with some overlap, and use your router/trim bit on it.
it looks back but it's definitely not the end of the world
Mark Thomas:
What an idiot :banghead: no wonder it went so wrong, thanks guys. What would I use this router for just kitchen work tops? Or could it do other routing duties?
Thanks for the advice guys I'm gonna try again this time with a razor :cheers:
drventure:
Routers are quite handy for these kind of projects. You can use it to true up the second side of a cabinet using the first side as a template, you can cut tmolding slot, Route out speaker holes, trackball mount areas, all sorts of things.
I wouldn't ditch it unless you just never plan on building anything again.
paigeoliver:
You can do a bunch of stuff with a router, however all I ever do with mine is cut t-molding slots.
I usually use a heat gun to wrap my vinyl around the edges smoothly and then the edge gets covered with t-molding.
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