Tommy's Trade Secrets - How to Mitre a Worktop using a Router & Jig

[TheAudiostud]

He's a "Carpenter not an Actor" How quick we are to criticise, you film yourself for 45 minutes and see how many times you repeat yourself, I found the video to be extremely informative and well filmed & edited, thanks to all involved

[joemercs]

I hired a 2KW router with worktop jig, bought a set of joining bolts along with a brand new 1/2" router cutter and followed this video to the letter taking my time to double check everything and the results were perfect. Excellent video

[paultaylor]

You Sir are a steely eyed kitchen fitter! I feel very comfortable with your explanations and tips, you make it sound so easy. If I were 50 years younger I would consider myself really fortunate to be your apprentice. Thank you so much.

[mikeystrokes]

A nice clean job done with ease. I myself am a chippy, but never seem to just go from start to finish without any problems.
You can never know to much and will always learn new tricks. good vid

[CaptureAdvertsing]

Have just installed 4 x super large mango bench tops we cut and thicknessed from a 102 yr old tree here in Far North Queensland Australia. The laptop's been playing on one side of the new kitchen with you excellent video while we cut and routered on the other side. So the last two days it's been again... 'cut & Its a shame that we had to pay $350 for a jig we'll likely to only have to use once but I have to tell you, your advice and commentary has been mint and the plumber arrives tomorrow to connect the stove, sink and oven into our fabulously fitted bench tops. Only comment I'd suggest is to let everyone know that your excellent method works equally well for timber slab tops as it does for your laminates in the vid. Fan-friggin-tastic as we say here in Oz - many thanks - Shaun

[kickpublishing]

When cutting from the back of a wood worktop you need to clamp another board under your cut line nice and tight, otherwise you risk blowing out the wood fibres as you plunge through it resulting in ugly tearout on the visible surface of your worktop. Generally its better to cut with the entire worktop supported on a scrap board than hanging on saw horses as your offcut could snap off under its own weight before the last cut and make a right balls of the cut. Also, its pretty standard to use a biscuit cutter to place some mating biscuits when joining to solve that alignment issue when bolting.

[LeeSiggers-dtht]

was looking for a heel toe vid for some French doors, come across this and found myself watching til the end. Excellent demo, BASICALLY a true pro. Keep it up lads

[ChristianFrench]

The guide bush runs in the jig with a bit of slack as the groove in the jig is normally about 8-10mm wider than the guide bush, so its always best to make the first cuts on the side of the jig groove away from the joint, and then make the final pass on the side of the jig closest to the joint, makes a much neater cut. I've never used PVA, always used clear varnish on the raw chipboard in the joint to seal it against water ingress, 3 or 4 coats, then squeeze in some colorfill to finish.

[benhewson]

Been watching instructional videos for years doing my own home DIY, but by far, this is the clearest and simplest I've seen with so much detail and real tradesman's eye and tips.  I know this has all already been said in the other comments here, but thank you very much,  subscribed.

[tonyfrewin]

This is the best and most clearly explained worktop jig video on YouTube. Thanks.

[Mark...]

Thanks for a very informative video, when I first seen it was on for 43 mins I thought "how the heck can he talk about mitring a worktop for that long" but the time just flew in, very well explained and hopefully I will be putting your shared knowledge into practice, thumbs up for your camera man too 👍

[stevenugent]

Hey Tommy, enjoy watching as you really give a lot of detail, I use a "Ratchet" spanner for tightening the dog bolts, I find it much quicker and easy on the wrists as we're not getting younger mate! It's good that you show the work in real time too cause most clients don't realize the work, time and knowledge behind negotiating the peanuts Tradesmen earn!

[bazburdett]

Great video!...clear guidance....I was cringing when the hammer was being used directly on worktop ( always use a block )....to flush the joint....video shows how long and tedious it is to fit worktops....don't just happen....nice one....

[markr]

You can score the worktop with the router, then jigsaw the rest out leaving the jig in place. Leave a couple of mm with the jigsaw. Then just clean it up, with one full depth pass of the router. It saves your router bits and router from an early grave.

[oompedoomp]

Just done my first worktop mitre job. Replacing tops in a u shaped kitchen. Nightmare! But thanks to watching Dave explain it and having a practise run beforehand it went pretty damn well! Thank you Dave. Keep the bids coming.

[Ben-xdfc]

Bloody brilliant. Can't find anyone to do the worktops in our kitchen and this has given me the confidence to give it a go. Will probably do a few dozens mitres on the old ones first!

[TheDickPuller]

I always love Dave's videos, you can just tell that he's done it 100s of times before & of all the Youtube videos on Worktop Mason mitres this is by far the best.
Thanks Dave & Tommy, please do more videos Dave.

[smnhpkns]

Excuse my language but Fucking brilliant video. I've been in the kitchen trade as a designer for over twenty years and I've been told how its done but never really understood. Just watched this and it makes perfect sense now. Genius, thanks. Right, what were gonna do now (ha ha ha) is watch a few more.

[das]

A couple of notes - A small gap between wall and boards gives you some breathing room if there is movement in house and or require a very slight adjust from error. Probably try and use a 0.7 - 0.9 mechanical pencil to keep lines sharp .. the fat lines from blunt pencils make for bad errors. Great video ..

[settingfree]

Absolutely brilliant - very clear with explanation. This really helped me a lot. I have done one worktop before and watched this again as a reminder for another one I have to do.Thank you very much.