hey guys bill here countertops eliminated today I am going to be showing how to put on bevel edge I had a request for it the other night so I figure I would make a new video bevel edge on a laminate countertop looks something like this this piece here has the tongue I do not use the tongue I actually just use the flat back which is similar to when we're putting out today our hair show you that it's just a flat back edging no tongue in it just all flat okay so that's the bevel edge now this is me by wilsonart deciding that I'm using today wilsonart also has two different kind of edges as of right now they're not all available yet only certain colors but they're increasing the line as we speak okay this guy here is the crescent edge okay so it gives you the the bull nose look basically and then we also have the Cascade edge this one doesn't seem to be as popular as the Crescent or the bubble but just another option as you can see okay so as of right now if you watched other videos of mine you would see me you know laminating countertop and routing it out and whatnot at this point the laminate still needs to be routed this is a big countertop it's getting a filled scene so it's probably a good one to show bevel edge going on so you see all the steps with all different types of tops basically and I'm ready to route up the edge now give you a quick view of that and when I do after here we go okay this bit here sure is in the view is a half inch double flute router bit with a half inch bearing just a basic run-of-the-mill okay and then the next step on that okay what I have here is just a block sander and made up it's 80 grit belt sanding paper just wrapped around chorion block and then I use this block here just that as a tightener to tighten it up so it's on there nice and flat strong doesn't move anywhere and basically I hold it nice and flat now I'll just go through and just basically lightly sand the laminate make sure there's no imperfections little bumps make sure there's no voids when you're gluing and putting a piece of edging on something like so feel with your finger feel there's no imperfections it's nice and smooth nice square corners you want those when the bevel edge goes on for one it's makes it easier lining it up and cutting it for two you don't have a little voids at the top which you'd have to fill with the filler after the fact so it gives you an idea of that I'm going to go ahead and rout out the entire top now and then we'll take it to the next step okay let me give you a quick idea what's going on here with the with the field seen like I said before because the size of this countertop there's no way I'm putting this in my van transporting it to the house there's probably not much chance of even getting it into the kitchen so we're doing a field scene in it the sink is actually over here it's going to be in this area so this will be in the sink so I'm really only worried about two and a half inches in the front and inch and a half in the back because I'm really concerned about at this point but for doing the bevel edge and whatnot all I'm concerned with is lining it up nice and straight going to do is use a couple inch and a quarter screws screw through this build up at the bottom here and screw the back end also and as you can see I overhang my build up so it's attached to this side of the countertop already basically what I do is when I'm building up the countertop I build it as one piece and before I put this last strip a build up on and the last trip of build upon I use my Festool saw make a nice straight cut and then build it up the rest of the way and then at that point I can flip it over because even even the size of this I can even flip it over inside the shop so what I'm going to do now is screw this in here so this will be nice and even in the front here and then that'll allow me to cut this front strip a build up there trying to run across the front here and what I'm going to do is tape it on but I'm not going to glue it I'm going to leave it loose then after I'm in the house and I glue this seam together front and back then I will put the the last piece of bevel on on site this way there's no seam running straight down where the seam is gives it a much nicer look and definitely a lot more custom when you're doing something like that so that last strip we will leave loose so you will see that later alright that gives you a good idea of that and I'll put that together now and then we can start the bubble okay I got my field seen put together it's wood screws tow all bolted up I sand it across the face there so everything is nice and even and I'm ready to start laying out the bevel edge I brought the three strips over which should be plenty for this job and basically what I like to do is start with the biggest piece first I cut everything in inch long ends of the bevel you have to check to make sure there's no dimples in it or anything left from the from the planer this one feels pretty good once in a while you'll see in about this much here there might be a little dimple from from the drum sander or whatever they're sending the stuff through when they're making it so that feels pretty good so what I'm going to do is go ahead and let's go out these an extra inch or so they're over here just go ahead and Mark it all right that will be my cut so what I'm going to do is just go ahead and get everything rough cut it get all the pieces cut it and lay it out and when we come back here we'll go to the next step okay all the pieces are now cut we are ready to start doing some assembly bring it right over here let me show you the inside corner real fast here because it's radiused right here left from the router so you basically have a half inch radius where actually would be a quarter inch radius from a half-inch bet so it's going to happen is I already cut this piece in this piece on a 45 on the chop saw okay and in order to get this to fit in there because it's radiused we're just going to use our AG gearbox and ER okay we're just going to put a little moon on it like that okay give you the idea so I just stand a little bit we can always stand more that's looking pretty good so I'm going to go ahead and do the next one here okay this point our piece is still so long here that I can't really get it to line up because it's so long in order to get it in the hole I'm Way back here somewhere so I'm going to do is give this a more precise cutting out at this point putting that edge in there mark in just the very top corner really go ahead and cut this now 45 that way knowing that I already sand it a little bit off of here this piece is already going to be just a hair long even with cutting it right there where I cut it so I'll go ahead and take care of that okay I do have to tip top size up here the left chop saw has a wood blade in it but it cuts a little too rough for the bevel edge so I use the corium blade it's a 1060 blade where the the other ones a 1050 but it's a lot finer of a cut so I use that just for my bevel edges and I also use it for obviously cutting Corian so if you're going to be using a chop saw to cut your edging for a final cut you want to get yourself even an 80 tooth blade something on the finer side would work good obviously not always not many people's going to have a surface blade laying around safety glasses don't forget those your eyes are important can eat them okay have a safety glasses okay wow it's really at least keep this in here close enough it's like a check this piece here with this piece okay we are pretty close there okay so at this point I'm going to say let's go ahead and put this piece on first you know this is lining up with it and we can chase our way around that okay if you see my other video this here is can tech tape they sell out at their supply I think the part numbers like SF 150 so go to bear supply you'll be able to find it this tape here has a good amount of stretch to it and it snaps back it doesn't just stay I'm using it to get pressure at the top edge of the bevel edge and pull it across so it's basically being a clamp and it also lines up the top edge very nice also wiggling though some people use masking tape some people use strand tape they work but still think that does a little bit better okay we got a rag you got simple green okay we got our wood glue okay I have some spring clamps laying around case you gotta clamp something down or or use it as an extra hand that works too okay this glue is tight bond three it's tight bonds most waterproof glue you pay a little bit more for it but it's definitely worth it something like that that guy in there okay so where those spring clamps come in handy just help the next Rihan we're going to run our rag here a little bit of simple green water we'll use that to clean up the glue as we go okay let's get a little bit clean up there and we're going to do is check it make sure it's in the right spot before taping it okay right about there is good don't look like that again it went without me out there okay what I like to do is go underneath the build up and actually press it to the backside of the build up the build up is only two and a quarter so just need enough tape to get around that then you can see as I call and I can pull a good inch and then stick it down okay I use my knife to cut for anybody that's not too experienced I tell them to use a pencil or something to cut the tape just poke it just so you're not accidentally hitting the counter top of the knife okay I'm going to keep taping here and then I'll show okay look we're working on the next corner the other sides all taped ready to go okay obviously no we gotta stand this for a little bit really so slides over here line it up on the left as you can see we're tight coming in here what I like to do is I'll just wedge it in there then this piece here is going to kind of dictate how much I cut off the other piece oops sorry hit the tripod there let's make sure you're lined up okay there you go okay now as I put this piece in and you do is clamp the suckish oh yeah okay laureate down here okay as you can see here where this piece is coming into this piece this face here basically we know that this face is line up with this face that's the easiest way to figure out where your cut should be so basically I want to take off right to there which is about about an eighth inch and I'm also a little longer because I'm going off of off of there something I'm even bigger than what it is so let me go ahead and pop this guy out of here okay go cut this okay I made a cut that was just a hair too long so I took just a hair more off and right now we are lined up perfect right there so what I'm going to do at this point is go ahead and tape this edging on just on the two ends really because this is the piece we're going to be taking back off and doing on site okay so that brings us to the next step we're just going to be cutting this corner here that's okay checking this end down here we know we're good so I'm going to go ahead and get myself just a fine mark best I can a little dot there right where that corner is now I'm going to go ahead cut myself a 22 and a half to get that guy to line a hair and while I'm at it I'm also going to cut other piece small piece on the 22 and a half the opposite way and use that to check it make sure I cut it right okay let's take a look back here wind up on the Left yeah my two 45s coming together okay I'm just a hair heavy on the left side here I could just feel it it's it's a tiny tiny bit I'm going to go ahead make one more cut on that hey bring it back in okay lend up the lot check the right okay in this case I'm still just a hair happy it's almost to a point where you can feel if I can't see it let me go ahead and take just a little more off actually this is a good time to show you how I go about taking just a tiny tiny bit off without taking too much off this will be a nice nice trick for you here okay what I like to do is I'll bring my saw blade all the way down get the edging nice flat everywhere take it and just touch the saw blade like that now and I bring this up it actually just rubs because the the blade is just heavier the kerf is just of the tooth is heavier than the steel blade itself that gives it a little clearance when you're cutting so I'm going to cut it right now okay so I'm taking off just a tiny tiny bit by doing that without even really lining up anything to be cut if you do that and even if it takes you three or four times of doing that this way you're pretty much guaranteed not to cut it too heavy okay let's check it again there we have it it's right on you're seeing a little bit of a white line just that's just from cutting it that will pretty much disappear with a black color if it's still there you can always do a tiny dab of marker on it and clean it off the market will go inside the the lid a little tiny chips that are left it's barely nothing but there there you can almost just feel just a little roughness so the marker a marker would take care of that on black top obviously if this was a light color top you want to have that issue at all so this is good to go I'm going to go ahead and glue this piece on and then basically do the same thing with this piece that piece and follow all the way around until it's done all the way over there I'm going to start doing it if I come across any more tidbits for you to help you along I will get you back all right as of now all the edging is on the big top all the way around I am got the first piece on the little top here we are give you a couple more tidbits of advice okay when doing edges corners outside corners like this if you need to if they look a little Gabi what you could do is you could actually undercut the backside of the bevel right here so basically what I do is I just get right up in here and you just kind of work it some of this right off of here like this okay in doing so now all you got to worry about is that a little bit touching instead of all this extra meat back here if you get you a little bit closer like that looks good now in this case this piece here is good at the top it's good right here in the front but it's still a hair heavy at the very bottom down here it's not that bad but another thing you can do in case that happens just go ahead and walk sand off this area of the bevel edge careful not to move this bevel when your thumb is up on that top edge obviously this edge is sharp should be wearing gloves they suggest wearing gloves with this stuff I rarely cut myself anymore but still happens okay another thing you could do if something is running a slightly out of square and you need to adjust this all I do is when I take this to the chop saw is I throw a little dust under under one of these corners just to prop it up that tiny tiny bit so when I shave this off I'm shaving just a hair more off the bottom and to even out the edge I rarely have to do that only because my edges are all really square the way I build up my tops if you look at the understanding counting the making of a countertop with a bevel edge on your mouth sink if you look at that video you'll see that I leave this buildup actually hanging out a little bit in spots all the way around then I run my router around here and I actually trim it up so everything's perfect and true then I go back with a block sander clean it up after the fact and then I clips like this clip this clip I actually did with the Festool saw but I usually just put up a straight edge across here with a combo square make sure it's exactly on a 22 because if it's not you slightly do slightly dip this in on one side or the other cutting this edge is more difficult it's very easy to take a bevel edge job and double the timing for the install of the edging if the countertop deck is not done really good so good deck is where to start and that's will lead you to a good bevel edge job yep like these clips here at Festool slalom I left them I left them completely square coming out and I just basically measured it out set up my straightedge for my track saw and cut across those corners which gave me a nice crisp corners to work with nice and simple so that's it another Tibbett only wait like hour hour and a half before taking off the tape and don't wait any longer the longer you wait the harder the tape is to come off so like right now it's probably been an hour and a half since I first put this piece on so gives you an idea how long it takes to do entire job this size should take an hour and a half two hours if you're inexperienced maybe three at most yeah let's see coming off real easy if you leave this tape on real long or especially overnight it'll start ripping anya leaving pieces chunks finish also makes a difference on the tape if the if you're using more of a smoother finish then it's harder to come up especially as time goes on so get that tape off before you call it the night you can save you a cleanup time in the morning so last thing I got to do is those two pieces of bevel edge and take care of those put my end caps on and tomorrow I can put the sink hole in it clean it up and install it so yeah that's it for bubble if you have any questions leave me a comment and thanks for watching