Laminate Flooring

[ChelCass]

Hello All,

 

  This is an experiment I have been wanted to try forever. 

 

Home Depot's flooring department has 3x5 samples of all their laminate flooring and these samples are free unlike Lowes and Menard who charge you for them......................My favorite word *free*.  I am always on the lookout for free wood. 

 

  Now I have a ton of their samples.  Every time I go into their store I grab a hand full.  Since I just spent 600.00 on flooring for our house I do not feel one bit guilty.  In fact the salesman told me to take them all if I wanted as that is what they are for...........................gotta love people like this.

 

  Any way I finally cut a Christmas ornament out of one of the samples.  This sample was 4 1/2 click American Cherry Mocha.  I used a FD-Hd 5" 0.100 X 0.022" t.p.i.10 flying Dutchman blade.

 

  You just need to remember to let the blade do the cutting and watch for bucking.  Every time I made a turn the wood tried to jump out of my hand.  I used stick glue to attach the pattern and then I washed the pattern off with soap and water.  No sanding needed

 

  I think these would be great for ornaments or even small key chains, etc.

 

  Your thoughts!

[merlin]

Nice..........I tried flooring a couple years ago and  found it was very hard on blades so gave it up (thats flooring not the samples)

 

Hope you have better luck than me..........................

[Rob]

I have often wondered about cutting laminate flooring.  I must try it if I can find any offcuts.

 

Rob

[amazingkevin]

Hello All,

 

  This is an experiment I have been wanted to try forever. 

 

Home Depot's flooring department has 3x5 samples of all their laminate flooring and these samples are free unlike Lowes and Menard who charge you for them......................My favorite word *free*.  I am always on the lookout for free wood. 

 

  Now I have a ton of their samples.  Every time I go into their store I grab a hand full.  Since I just spent 600.00 on flooring for our house I do not feel one bit guilty.  In fact the salesman told me to take them all if I wanted as that is what they are for...........................gotta love people like this.

 

  Any way I finally cut a Christmas ornament out of one of the samples.  This sample was 4 1/2 click American Cherry Mocha.  I used a FD-Hd 5" 0.100 X 0.022" t.p.i.10 flying Dutchman blade.

 

  You just need to remember to let the blade do the cutting and watch for bucking.  Every time I made a turn the wood tried to jump out of my hand.  I used stick glue to attach the pattern and then I washed the pattern off with soap and water.  No sanding needed

 

  I think these would be great for ornaments or even small key chains, etc.

 

  Your thoughts!

I've cut he Formica samples into earrings an Egyptian  things for ears,never flooring as there's to much sand in it.My saw sparks cutting them,It a flooring saw from lowes

[newfie]

Came out nice thanks for sharing

[dgman]

Be carful Judy, that stuff my contain formaldehyde.

[Lucky2]

I've used it in the past, but, it was very hard on blades.

Len

[wombatie]

I must go into our big hardware store and find out what they do with their old samples.  They may be a good idea for Roly's Mr Crisps.

 

Marg

[JimErn]

I cut this cross out of laminate flooring a month or so ago.  Never again, I went through FD blades quick, I mean wore down to no teeth at all on one.  But the cut edges are nice, almost no fuzzies to deal with

[Phantom Scroller]

Judy I've use the flooring for cutting name signs they look good. Roly

[ChelCass]

Jim I just went up and looked at my blade and it doesn't show any wear.  Now I used a blade especially for this kind of cutting.  This blade is for cutting thick and very hard wood.  It's a flying Dutchman.

 

 

I heard ya Dan, this flooring is NOT from Lumber Liquidators.  I got very little dust. 

 

Margie a couple of years ago a lumber company gave me a piece of discontinued flooring and I cut several ornaments out of it.  They came out beautiful.  I have attached a photo for you.