Appreciation post: I was cutting laminate planks wrong for years

I was on a job in Springfield and my helper pointed out the tiny chips on the cut edges. I always used my jigsaw with a standard wood blade. He handed me a fine-tooth blade meant for laminate and the cut was perfectly clean. I must have wasted hours sanding those rough edges down. What's a simple tool switch that saved you a bunch of time?

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lane.kim2mo agoMost Upvoted

Man, I was basically sanding my own mistakes for a living.

rowanjenkins1mo ago

Ever wonder if the real problem is how we're taught to measure twice but only cut once?

spencer_bell2mo ago

Switching to a carbide grit blade on my angle grinder for cutting cast iron pipe was a game changer. I used to fight with a regular abrasive blade that would wear out halfway through a single cut. The grit blade goes through it like butter and lasts for dozens of jobs. I probably burned up fifty bucks in cheap blades before I tried the good one. That one change saved me so much frustration and time on every rough-in.