Shortening plastic keytops

[Stéphane Collin]

Hello Ric.

I have one of those mini bandsaws, which work really great for cutting 
an ornate music desk in softt wood.  With plastic, even with the blades 
they recommend for synthetic stuff, you cut about 7 mm  and then, the 
plastic sticks on the blade, goes jumping around, and breaks (even with 
speed at it's lowest setting).  Once I could cut through the 22.5 mm 
width of the key, but then the 20 first mm were stuck together again.

I ended up using a belt sander for removing the 3 mm excess, and a file 
used in the manner of a scraper to remove the mess.  Finishing worked 
just nice as you described : down the grits until 1000 and buffing 
wheel.  Thanks for advise.

Stéphane Collin.


Richard Brekne a écrit :

> I'd think one of those mini bandsaws with a very fine blade would cut 
> through that stuff ok... but I've never tried.
>