On Sep 4, 11:01 am, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On 4 Sep, 04:49, Robatoy wrote:

On Sep 4, 4:22 am, Robatoy wrote:

On Sep 3, 9:37 pm, "goaway" wrote:

Never felt a need to use particle board. It has NO redeeming values. It
heavy, it fails easily, it sags with any moisture content, can not burn the
scraps and the bigest fairtail of them all ==== truely usless for
countertops that you want to truley last... Always have and always will use
plywood for my projects. And to those who say "but it's cheep" yes for the
first time something is built, but when it needs to be rebuilt because it
warped or ballooned up [snip]

All true what you're saying. BUT!
Aside from being cheap, the are some serious advantages to consider.
Most PB is laminated with melamine,

- Most PB..as in.... most PB in kitchen cabinet work is melamine
- clad...nobody ever uses unfinished PB in a kitchen cabinet...now
would
- they?

Ah... the 4:30 AM factor showed up. Get some sleep! ;-)

The EDGES??. Nope, never finished... except tape on the visual fronts
maybe in a european style cabinet.
But I have never seen/used melamine on one side of a panel.