Sawed chipboard with a circular saw. How to cut chipboard without chips in a home workshop. Processing chipboard boards after trimming

Any home craftsman sooner or later faces the need to cut chipboard. It can be making furniture with your own hands or wall cladding. MDF panels or chipboard. As you know, cutting chipboard is not difficult, but making the cut even and without chips is not an easy task.

Do it yourself or order?

Custom cut will be smoother

High-quality sawing of chipboard is difficult to do manually due to big size sheets. Dimensions standard plate 2440x1200 is not the limit. However, if you often work with chipboard or MDF, it makes sense to get an expensive instrument and work for pleasure. If you only need to cut a few sheets, you can go two ways:

• Cut the slabs yourself using the available hand tools;
• Order cutting chipboard in a specialized workshop.

What to choose is up to you, and we will consider each of these options.

Cutting panels at home

You can also cut with a jigsaw

It is quite possible to cut a sheet of chipboard or chipboard manually. True, in this case, you are unlikely to be able to avoid the appearance of chips and burrs, but you can try to reduce their number and size.

There are several rules that should be followed when cutting chipboard panels:

• cutting sheets must be done on a flat, solid surface. For sawing large panels can accommodate two large tables(they must be the same height!);
• in order to prevent the appearance of chips, stick sticky tape or good masking tape along the cutting line, which will hold the edges of the laminated layer;
• for cutting with hand saw pick up a canvas with a grinding tooth. The saw teeth should be well sharpened. You need to drive the saw with a little pressure, at an acute angle to the surface, constantly monitoring its position;
• to cut chipboard and chipboard with a jigsaw, the cut line should be scratched or even cut. It is best to use a sharp knife to cut through the tough laminate layer;
• install a file with a small back tooth;
• select top speed jigsaw work, turn off the "pendulum";
• fix a flat rail along the saw line and guide the jigsaw strictly along it;
• the jigsaw should be firmly pressed against the sawn surface.

All these recommendations help to properly cut and cut chipboard, but chips, nevertheless, cannot be completely avoided. Therefore, if it is so important to get a perfectly smooth, even cut line, without chips and saw marks, you should contact specialized workshops, where any figure will be cut out of a chipboard sheet for a moderate fee.

Accuracy and quality

Accurate cutting is the key to success

Panel saws for sawing chipboard and chipboard have high quality cut, which allows to reduce subsequent costs for processing cuts (grinding, removing chips and burrs, and so on). That is why on such machines it is possible to cut any complexity and configuration, which means almost inexhaustible possibilities in the production of furniture. Fantasy children's furniture, comfortable tabletops computer tables, figured through carved decorations in the doors of kitchen facades - all this is possible using machine tools.

There are two types of panel cutting machines:

• vertical, which is a strong rigid vibration-resistant welded frame (frame), installed vertically with a back deflection of 50 °, with guides located above and below, along which the saw beam moves. It is a bracket for the saw unit, which moves up and down along the beam, and also rotates 90°, which allows you to make both vertical and horizontal cuts. The cutting precision is amazing. For sawing laminated chipboard, as well as hard, corrugated or porous boards, a special scoring unit is used. The rotational speed of the saw reaches 15 thousand revolutions per minute;
• horizontal, consisting of a table for a plate, a carriage for moving the saw along the saw mechanism and the actual saw mechanism, consisting of one or two cutting units. The cutting units themselves are equipped with a main and scoring saw. The principle of operation is simple: the main saw deeply cuts through the chipboard, and the scoring saw accurately and clearly cuts the bottom edge (veneer or laminated surface). The saw unit can also be tilted up to 45°.

The miter saw is a "domesticated" and greatly reduced copy horizontal machine. It will not be possible to cut a wide sheet of chipboard or chipboard on it, but with small details she'll be fine.

Sawing other types of panels

MDF panels also need to be cut exactly

Cutting MDF is different from cutting chipboard panels. high density material quickly blunts the teeth of the saw, so it often has to be sharpened or completely changed. You can cut unfinished MDF on conventional machine, however laminated board requires a machine with an optional bottom saw.

Sawing panels from chipboard and other materials

This is especially important when sawing boards with a double-sided finish.

Cutting fiberboard can be done at home using an electric or manual jigsaw. Of course, the file must be sharp, with a fine tooth, it is necessary to set the maximum speed on the jigsaw. Install the fiberboard horizontally on a support that should not interfere with sawing (between two tables or chairs, for example), secure with clamps if necessary.

The electric jigsaw should be held with both hands, pressing firmly against the surface, moving smoothly, strictly along the marking line, without jerking and pressing.

The same applies to working with a manual jigsaw.

In the case when you need to cut a lot of sheets of material, it is more convenient to contact a specialized company. This will save you time and effort.

Video on cutting chipboard with a circular saw

Cutting chipboard beautifully and without chips is not always easy. See how to do it right:

How to cut chipboard without chips

So, I collected a sufficient amount of material and decided to dash off another analytical note. This time the topic is sawing laminated chipboard without chips.

There is a fairly fair opinion that it is possible to cleanly cut chipboard only on professional equipment (that is, a panel saw).

The whole highlight of this machine is that it has two saw blades located strictly on the same axis. The first cuts the chipboard, the second cuts it through.

The cost of this unit is about 700,000 - 1,000,000 rubles (of course, there are more expensive))). NOT VERY ACCEPTABLE FOR THE AMATEUR.

Of course, if you decide to make a wardrobe with your own hands. it is better to order a sheet cut (five square meters piece) in the workshop, and then quietly assemble it. BUT WHAT TO DO IF YOU FUCKED UP IN THE CALCULATIONS AND YOU NEED TO CUT A PIECE. I don’t want to drag myself back to the shop, but I need to cut.

This article aims to answer this question. The overview of options will go from simple to complex. Unfortunately, not all methods will be illustrated (I apologize in advance), I will try to compensate for this lack of text????

Method 1 - Scratch

The grandfather's way. It used to be used for sawing Soviet laminated chipboard covered with a thick layer of varnish. Now rarely used. With it, we scratch along the ruler with an awl or simple nail marking line on the thickness of the decorative coating.

After that, we cut along the line, trying to ensure that the edges of the saw teeth fall exactly into the scratch and not a step past. You can cut both with a jigsaw and hand saw.

In principle, in the photo on the right you can see that all the chips remained on the piece without a scratch, but they did not go beyond the scratched line.

Detailed tutorial on this method

The cut is much cleaner than when sawing without a scratch, but chips do occur. It is difficult to keep the tool strictly in line. So slow.

Small length cuts acceptable quality can be done with a simple electric jigsaw. For this, several conditions must be met.

First, the file must be with minimum size teeth (that is, for metal) and a new one. At the same time, on one side (where the teeth enter the material), the cut will be almost clean. On the opposite side, there will be chips, but relatively few.

Secondly, the tool must be fed smoothly, without pressure. Turnovers set not maximum (slightly above average.

The disadvantage of the method is that it is quite difficult to maintain a strict straightness of the cut, as well as the presence of a small number of chips.

Method 3 - Circular Saw

To work with a circular saw, we need a “finishing” saw blade (again, with a fine tooth). Circular saws are more convenient than long straight cuts with a jigsaw. But at the same time, chips are formed much more (the side where the teeth cut into the material (top) is usually clean. It breaks off pieces from the opposite side (bottom)).

You can cut like a free saw (it is quite difficult to drive exactly along the line). It is difficult to cut several identical parts - a lot of trouble with markings.

So is the saw fixed in the table. When using guides, sawing is much more convenient. Both hands are free. You can use a guide, which will increase the accuracy of the cut and allow you to stamp the same parts.

Even when using a finishing disc, there will be many chips on one side.

Method 4 - Undercut Sawing

This is a modification of working with circular saw. Ideally, it will require plunge saw. but, in principle, you can do with the usual circular. For work, we need a ruler (tire), which is fixed on the workpiece with clamps. It can be purchased or homemade (pictured is a simple circular with a homemade tire).

The whole point is, by analogy with a panel saw, to make two cuts strictly along the same line.

This will help us cut on the tire (long ruler). The tire is placed along the marking line, after which we first make the first cut, cutting the laminate, with a depth of about 6-10 mm.

At the same time, the teeth run almost parallel to the surface of the laminate, without pulling out pieces of it.

If you enlarge the photo, it will look something like this

The second cut is through. At the same time, as we remember, no chips are formed at the place where the tooth enters the material. And at the exit point, the laminate has already been cut off and there is nothing to prick.

Not a bad way to trim incorrectly marked parts, but you can’t cut the whole cabinet in this way. Chips, of course, are present, but in an amount that is quite comparable with the formatter (it also, in secret, leaves a small number of small chips). A lot of hassle with markup. Only straight cuts can be made.

Provides the cleanest edge of the workpiece; the quality is no different from the formatter, often even better.

With it, we first saw the workpiece with a jigsaw, departing from the marking line 2-3 mm, and then we align the line according to the template (I usually use the second piece of chipboard, sawn on a formatter, right size). The cutter must be copy, that is, with a bearing.
Very clean cut. The possibility of carrying out curvilinear cuts, that is, the manufacture of many radius parts. including several that are exactly the same. Cons - a lot of trouble: the need for accurate marking, preliminary sawing of blanks, setting a template or tire under the router, that is, not very suitable for mass use.

As practice shows, it is very difficult to make a high-quality cut of chipboard with a durable melamine coating. Rough tools often leave nicks on cuts. You can no longer assemble a neat door or shelf with such defects. Sawing chipboard at home, usually occurs when repair work or making furniture.

How to cut chipboard without nicks and chips?

Special equipment

Of course the most the best way- use a special format machine. With it, you can get any cut. But for private needs you cannot buy such an instrument, but on manufacturing plant providing sawing services, such a procedure will cost good money. More cheap way - Circular Saw. There are even special saws for chipboard. But they also require the use of special tools. However, many in the arsenal should have milling machine, which will fix the rough cut with the cutter. If you have experience with such a machine, it will not be difficult to get a satisfactory appearance cut.

improvised tools

You can cut chipboard and a jigsaw, but it will be a rough cut. The edges may not turn out straight, but sinusoidal, and in the worst case, the edge will come out not perpendicular to the front surface.

During the cut, you must be prepared for the fact that the jigsaw file will begin to “walk” due to the bend. You need to cut with a margin of 4 mm, and then level the edge.

Sawing chipboard at home with a jigsaw reduces the formation of chips. When cutting, you need to increase the speed and reduce the feed by setting the swap to 0. Only sharp saws designed for special sawing of chipboard should be used. Only by following these rules you can achieve a good result. After cutting the butt, which will be in sight, you can earn some money with sandpaper. Additionally, before cutting, as already mentioned, you need to cut a line along which the cut will take place. But we do not file along this line, but near it - then the chips will not touch the limits you need. In the end, it remains only to finish the edges with sandpaper.

Indents from the contour can be up to 4 mm. Then these few millimeters are removed cylindrical cutter using a manual electric milling machine with a bearing. The bearing is guided along a long level, fixed with reverse side sheet.

In addition, if the chips are in a non-working, inconspicuous area, they can be masked with a marker or felt-tip pen, matched to their color.

The most undesirable way to cut chipboard- a file (oddly enough, in old textbooks a lot of material is devoted to this method). It is possible with a planer, but preferably electric and with carbide knives. But here it must be borne in mind that the dust from under the planer will scatter throughout the room.

And the most comfortable way- using a manual milling cutter along the guide. The butt should be even and under 90 gr, there will be no chips, and when the vacuum cleaner is turned on, there will be almost no dust.

Masters recommend using a hacksaw for such a cut. If you have a saw with a fine tooth, then the procedure is as follows:

1) Draw a line of cut with a knife. Sharpen the saw before starting work. The knife should be driven with a little pressure so that the laminated top layer is notched.

2) Glue a tape with a sticky base along the intended cutting line. It will help keep the decorative layer from cracking. You can also use paper tape.

3) The tool should be held at a very sharp angle. In this case, the angle should not be higher than 30 degrees - this will reduce the likelihood of chips. In the process of cutting, it is necessary to slightly press on the saw. If the work is done with a power tool, such as a jigsaw, then you do not need to rush and press it

4) After finishing sawing, the cut can be cleaned with a file. But in many cases, this is not required, since the small teeth of the saw do not deform the laminate. If torn edges have formed, then delicate work with a rasp will bring the cut into the proper form. The grinding tool must be guided towards the center from the edge - this minimizes possible damage to the top layer.

5) A glued strip of veneer will give the final beauty to the cut.

Of course cutting chipboard at home does not mean professional quality and high speed operation. For those who are in a hurry, we can offer sawing chipboard with a grinder. A wood disc is used as a cutting element. A bar is attached to the chipboard on clamps so that the grinder is guided along it for an even cut. After cutting, possible chips are treated with the same grinder, only with a different nozzle - for grinding. But a more gentle option is to use sandpaper.

Any home craftsman sooner or later faces the need to cut chipboard. It can be making furniture with your own hands or wall cladding with MDF or chipboard panels. As you know, cutting chipboard is not difficult, but making the cut even and without chips is not an easy task.

Do it yourself or order?

Custom cut will be smoother

High-quality sawing of chipboard is difficult to do manually due to the large size of the sheets. The dimensions of a standard plate are 2440 × 1200, and this is not the limit. However, if you often work with chipboard or MDF, it makes sense to get an expensive tool and work for your own pleasure. If you only need to cut a few sheets, you can go two ways:

• Cut the slabs yourself using the available hand tools;
• Order cutting chipboard in a specialized workshop.

What to choose is up to you, and we will consider each of these options.

Cutting panels at home

It is quite possible to cut a sheet of chipboard or chipboard manually. True, in this case, you are unlikely to be able to avoid the appearance of chips and burrs, but you can try to reduce their number and size.

There are several rules that should be followed when cutting chipboard panels:

• cutting sheets must be done on a flat, solid surface. For sawing large panels, two large tables can be adapted (their height must be the same!);
• in order to prevent the appearance of chips, stick adhesive tape or a good masking tape along the cut line, which will hold the edges of the laminated layer;
• for sawing with a hand saw, select a blade with a grinding tooth. The saw teeth should be well sharpened. You need to drive the saw with a little pressure, at an acute angle to the surface, constantly monitoring its position;
• to cut chipboard and chipboard with a jigsaw, the cut line should be scratched or even cut. It is best to use a sharp knife to cut through the tough laminate layer;
• install a file with a small back tooth;
• select the maximum speed of the jigsaw, turn off the "pendulum";
• fix a flat rail along the saw line and guide the jigsaw strictly along it;
• the jigsaw should be firmly pressed against the sawn surface.

All these recommendations help to properly cut and cut chipboard, but chips, nevertheless, cannot be completely avoided. Therefore, if it is so important to get a perfectly smooth, even cut line, without chips and saw marks, you should contact specialized workshops, where any figure will be cut out of a chipboard sheet for a moderate fee.

Accuracy and quality

Accurate cutting is the key to success

Panel saws for sawing laminated chipboard and chipboard have a high cut quality, which reduces the subsequent costs for processing cuts (grinding, removing chips and burrs, and so on). That is why on such machines it is possible to cut any complexity and configuration, which means almost inexhaustible possibilities in the production of furniture. Fantasy children's furniture, comfortable tabletops for computer tables, figured through carved decorations in the doors of kitchen facades - all this is possible using machine tools.

There are two types of panel cutting machines:

• vertical, which is a strong rigid vibration-resistant welded frame (frame), installed vertically with a back deflection of 50 °, with guides located above and below, along which the saw beam moves. It is a bracket for the saw unit, which moves up and down along the beam, and also rotates 90°, which allows you to make both vertical and horizontal cuts. The cutting precision is amazing. For sawing laminated chipboard, as well as hard, corrugated or porous boards, a special scoring unit is used. The rotational speed of the saw reaches 15 thousand revolutions per minute;
• horizontal, consisting of a table for a plate, a carriage for moving the saw along the saw mechanism and the actual saw mechanism, consisting of one or two cutting units. The cutting units themselves are equipped with a main and scoring saw. The principle of operation is simple: the main saw deeply cuts through the chipboard, and the scoring saw accurately and clearly cuts the bottom edge (veneer or laminated surface). The saw unit can also be tilted up to 45°.

The miter saw is a "domesticated" and greatly reduced copy of a horizontal machine. It will not be possible to cut a wide sheet of chipboard or chipboard on it, but it will cope with fine details.

Sawing other types of panels

Cutting MDF is different from cutting chipboard panels. The high density of the material quickly dulls the teeth of the saw, so it often has to be sharpened or even changed. It is possible to cut untreated MDF on a conventional machine, but laminated board requires a machine with an additional bottom saw. This is especially important when sawing boards with a double-sided finish.

Cutting fiberboard can be done at home using an electric or manual jigsaw. Of course, the file must be sharp, with a fine tooth, it is necessary to set the maximum speed on the jigsaw. Install the fiberboard horizontally on a support that should not interfere with sawing (between two tables or chairs, for example), secure with clamps if necessary.

The electric jigsaw should be held with both hands, pressing firmly against the surface, moving smoothly, strictly along the marking line, without jerking and pressing. The same applies to working with a manual jigsaw.

In the case when you need to cut a lot of sheets of material, it is more convenient to contact a specialized company. This will save you time and effort.

Video on cutting chipboard with a circular saw

Cutting chipboard beautifully and without chips is not always easy. See how to do it right:

If you have at least once tried to cut chipboard at home, then you know for sure that this work is by no means simple and requires not only skill, but also a good tool. Laminated chipboard is especially difficult to process, during the sawing of which a lot of chips often form. That is why many craftsmen, faced with such a problem, come to the conclusion that it is better to cut chipboard when buying, especially since many trading organizations provide such services and the price for them is quite acceptable.

Sawing chipboard is carried out using precise format-cutting machines that will help to obtain blanks of a given size and shape.

Modern models allow you to evenly cut plate materials not only in the horizontal and vertical direction, but also at an angle.

In addition to cutting sheets, they will help you calculate and provide in the form of a visual video file several options for competent and economical cutting of sheet material (using special computer programs) and, if necessary, perform edging. However, if for some reason you prefer to do this work yourself, you will have to do some preparatory work before sawing chipboard.

Tools and materials

If possible, it is best to cut chipboard with a manual milling cutter using homemade guides. This method is not very convenient when cutting large sheets, because when working with this tool, a table is required. In addition, with this method, you often have to change the cutters. But as a result, you will get cleanly processed, “cut-off” edges.

Some craftsmen use a jigsaw in their work, however, in the absence of skill, it is difficult to cut smoothly, and chips can form.

You can try to install a bimetallic blade with teeth pointed inward, designed for laminate, on a jigsaw. To cut with an electric jigsaw, increase the speed, with a small feed, so that breaks do not form.

If such methods do not suit you, then to cut chipboard at home, we will prepare for work:

• a hacksaw with fine teeth (the one that is designed for metal work is best). In this case, the teeth must be separated by 1/2 of the blade thickness and be hardened;
• paper adhesive tape;
• file for roughing the cut line;
• sandpaper for finishing the cut line.

How to cut chipboard without chipping?

Before starting to cut chipboard, especially laminated, we cut a line with a sharp tool along which we will cut and glue paper tape with a sticky layer along it. This will help minimize damage to the decorative chipboard layer.

To keep the chips as small as possible, it is necessary to direct the movement of the hacksaw at an acute angle to the surface (no more than 30 °). Movements should be smooth, without excessive pressure on the plate and sharp jerks.

If the chips still could not be avoided, we process the cut first with a file, working in the direction from the edges to the center, and then with a fine-grained sandpaper. It is also possible to mask all defects by applying, where possible, a flexible profile.

Figure cutting

It is even more difficult to obtain curved surfaces of a given configuration at home, and you will have to spend extra money on purchasing a router that will help you get rid of chips and notches that form when you cut chipboard.

The price of a manual milling cutter can vary significantly, depending on the manufacturer, power, and the availability of additional functions. If you do not plan to be engaged in the production of furniture professionally, then it is advisable to purchase an inexpensive model.

To cut chipboard, follow these steps:

1. having marked the contours of the necessary part on the chipboard sheet, we cut it out with an electric jigsaw, trying to cut retreating only a couple of millimeters from the intended cutting line;
2. we make templates of the design radius from fiberboard or plywood and carefully grind the ends with sandpaper;
3. attaching the template to the part to be finished, clamp it with clamps and process it with a manual copy cutter with a bearing, removing excess material exactly to the intended line.

At the same time, it does not matter which cutter (it is used with two or four knives). The only condition is that the knives must capture the processed thickness of the cut along the entire height. After processing, it remains only to stick the edge on the part. How it's done - look at the video:

What can not be sawn chipboard

If the amount of work is large enough, and the quality requirements are low, some craftsmen advise sawing chipboard at home using a grinder (an angle grinder, commonly called a "grinder"). In doing so, they use a disc designed to work with wood. To make cutting easier, a guide bar is fixed along the cutting line with the help of clamps. Cutting chipboard using a grinder can sometimes be seen on the video.

Attention important! This method is absolutely unacceptable, since the probability of injury during work is very high, especially if large diameter discs are used and the protective cover is removed from the grinder.