Multi material worktop jig worth it ?

[micric]

Hi all.
I am looking at fitting some worktops soon and am looking at the Trend jigs, many years ago I used the standard 35mm offset jig but now with modern surfaces the rounded edge is almost outdated so no longer need the offset hence the newer multi material jigs. Can a reduced offset to say 10mm be achieved by simply adding a suitably sized shim between the jig peg and the worktop or have I lost the plot and way off the mark ? Any thoughts please. Cheers

 

[foxhole]

Are you using square edged worktop?

 

[Deleted member 174758]

You can certainly handle true square corner mason's mitre cuts with different offsets by just using packers, although I personally found it a bit more awkward to "guesstimate" where the cuts were actually going to start. I also found it a faff to keep the packers in place, although it was doable using masking tape. Where it came unstuck (sic) was on worktops which went into an out of square corner - or 50% of the time in my life. On those having a worktop jig which can accommodate an out if square corner saves a lot on time and (hugely on) frustration of getting the cut to work. I never screwed up a worktop, but I came pretty close a time or two - getting one of those Trend kitchen worktop jig offset scriber (M/KWS01) was a great help but there was just too much suck it and see for me with packers and tape, so I eventully bought a new jig.

My new Trend jig has backset settings for 3, 5, 10, 24 and 35mm (had to look that up) and can accommodate out of square corners. I suppose the biggest plus is that the new jig can handle everything I've seen to date, from HPL to solid wood (with a small radius) to 38mm laminate with a rolled edge - but it wasn't cheap, so I'd say you'd need a number of worktops to install to justify the cost

Are you using square edged worktop?

Most of the "square edged worktop" I've seen isn't actually square, it has a slight radius on it (in the case of some HDF I looked at recently about 1.5mm - if that stuff is machined square it easily will slice into your fingers, from painful experience in the past) - which makes a 3mm back set on the jig a good idea