As subject really, SWMBO wants square edge worktop this time and
having looked at various examples of both, I can't decide whether it
looks better mitred or butted.
What does the panel think?

It's a square edged gloss sort of black "marble" effect she's looking at
- if that helps

Lee

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Lee wrote:
As subject really, SWMBO wants square edge worktop this time and
having looked at various examples of both, I can't decide whether it
looks better mitred or butted.
What does the panel think?

It's a square edged gloss sort of black "marble" effect she's looking at
- if that helps

Lee


To me worktop mitres look wrong because they use more material and give
you an unneccesarily long joint that has to be perfect. As it has no
benefits over a butt joint, there seems little point

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:29:56 GMT, Stuart Noble
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Lee wrote:
As subject really, SWMBO wants square edge worktop this time and
having looked at various examples of both, I can't decide whether it
looks better mitred or butted.
What does the panel think?

It's a square edged gloss sort of black "marble" effect she's looking at
- if that helps

Lee


To me worktop mitres look wrong because they use more material and give
you an unneccesarily long joint that has to be perfect. As it has no
benefits over a butt joint, there seems little point


Maybe Ok for square edged w/tops but what about round edged ones
....?????
How do you get round that .??
Stuart




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Stuart wrote:
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:29:56 GMT, Stuart Noble
wrote:

Lee wrote:
As subject really, SWMBO wants square edge worktop this time and
having looked at various examples of both, I can't decide whether it
looks better mitred or butted.
What does the panel think?

It's a square edged gloss sort of black "marble" effect she's looking at
- if that helps

Lee


To me worktop mitres look wrong because they use more material and give
you an unneccesarily long joint that has to be perfect. As it has no
benefits over a butt joint, there seems little point


Maybe Ok for square edged w/tops but what about round edged ones
...?????
How do you get round that .??
Stuart


Use a router and a worktop cutting jig which gives you a mitre in the
round edged section and a butt joint for the remainder. Search the
group archives for more info or look at the Trend website for details
of their jigs and how to use them.

MBQ

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Stuart wrote:

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:29:56 GMT, Stuart Noble
wrote:


Lee wrote:

As subject really, SWMBO wants square edge worktop this time and
having looked at various examples of both, I can't decide whether it
looks better mitred or butted.
What does the panel think?

It's a square edged gloss sort of black "marble" effect she's looking at
- if that helps

Lee


To me worktop mitres look wrong because they use more material and give
you an unneccesarily long joint that has to be perfect. As it has no
benefits over a butt joint, there seems little point


Maybe Ok for square edged w/tops but what about round edged ones
...?????
How do you get round that .??
Stuart



Use a router and a worktop cutting jig which gives you a mitre in the
round edged section and a butt joint for the remainder. Search the
group archives for more info or look at the Trend website for details
of their jigs and how to use them.

MBQ

Yep. In theory you can avoid the router/jig routine by just 45 deg
cutting 2 bits of worktop (assuming you have the extra length required)
but in practice it's a bugger to get such a long joint lined up and
fixed. I've seen it done, and to me it just looks naff, mainly because
technically it doesn't make sense.