Cutting table surface – which one is the best? Help please?

[Martin Pearson]

Ewan try a search on the forum. been spoke about a lot so you will get answers quicker that way, would link for you but I am not great a forum searches myself 😳

Don’t know who told you any colour forex was good, personally wouldn’t touch it. may be cheap but biggest problem is that once you have cut on it a few times your blade will follow the old tracks & not cut where you want it to.
Personally glass for me, people say it blunts scalpel blades quicker which is true but the price for 100 blades is cheap enough for it not to bother me, I do tend to keep a couple of knives solely for cutting on the table which makes them last a bit longer as most of the time they don’t need to be super sharp for bench type work.

[Ewan Evans]

Thanks Martin, I had toughened glass before but as I cut window film it annoyed me as I had to make sure it was perfectly dry or the film would stick like a magnet. At the moment I’m using the kind of industrial lino that bank counters have, can’t remember the exact name but it’s lasted well. I would use that again but it’s really expensive.

I never find any good results when I search the forum for some reason.

Cheers

Ewan

[Martin Pearson]

Found this one which might help

http://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.p … g+surfaces

I have a replacement window company in the unit next to mine so my current surface is an old double glazed unit lol, doesn’t cover the whole table but does cover the 1220 width & is about 2.3m in length, I was going to look for another unit for the rest but I like having just the mdf top on the rest & not having to worry about what I am doing on that bit.
If I break the current glass top no big deal, will just look out for another free top that fits

[David Rogers]

3mm Polypropylene all the way!

Sure you can’t shine a light through it, but it’s hard wearing, doesn’t break into bits even after hundreds of thousands of cuts and (although those with glass tops don’t seem to mind), is kind to your blades.

it’s also dirt cheap over the 2-3 years you’ll have it and you’ll not break it.

[Ewan Evans]

Thanks David, I’m moving premises as mentioned previously so I need to build a new office, re surface two cutting tables as well as buy a digital printer and laminator so value for money as what I’m looking for and this seems to be a good option.

Ewan