On Monday, June 8, 2015 at 10:41:45 AM UTC+1, rick wrote:
On 02/06/2015 14:46, Bill Wright wrote:
Syd Rumpo wrote:
I had some plywood sheet cut to size in B&Q a couple of years ago and
the cut edges were quite splintery and ragged - a not very sharp
blade, I think and the operator almost said as much. It didn't matter
a toss in my application.

However, now I need some 12mm ply sheets cut where the quality of the
cut edge does matter. What should I reasonably expect? Do these
places usually make good quality cuts?

Cheers
If they set the blade so that it only just gets through the wood it will
attack the surface at an angle and that greatly reduces splintering.

Bill


It can also depend on quality of ply ... I bought somne sheets from
Local timber merchants - although rated as standard WBP it had a much
darker ply on one side ... and that splints very easily .... I had to
score with knife to get any decent finish.

Also after only 6 months in place this outer dark ply is rippling ...
will never buy this stuff again.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGrxUwYA8Uk

FF to 3:50 to see how this saw copes with plywood.

Mafell make excellent tools IMHO. Expensive but .............