Grizzly G7910 Hand Held Edge Bander

 (4 customer reviews)

Very nice tool for applying preglued edge banding. I couldn't afford $35,000 for an entry level gluepot edgebander for my cabinet shop at start up 8 months ago. And I didnt want to use the trusty old iron for all my banding.

I only have 4 small concerns with it.

It is kind of complex to set up, but once you do, adjusting from 23/32 to 3/4 inch wide panels are relatively easy.

It sometimes does not do a good job sticking the first inch of banding and sometimes the last inch on a panel. You need to have a hot clothes iron laying around to make sure the it's really down. I think it may be a skill problem on my part that a few hundred feet more edgebanding experience may improve.

It is also really easy to burn the wood if you don't keep it moving. One thing I like is that the heat gun has a sheet metal duck bill that directs the hot air directly between the glue and the panels edge where they meet. You just need to keep the thing moving at a...Read more

I have a small one man shop and love this bander. I have owned a Brandt 20k bander in the past, and while this doesn't do all the Brandt did it is very good for preglued banding. You can do many shapes because of its single roller and portability and straight edges. After using it for a while I find it very easy to adjust for different thickness materials. I made a stand for it that I mounted to the side of my bench. It is simply a shelf long enough for it with a 2 1/2" x 3/4" plywood rip mounted on edge in the middle. I place the bander on it like I am going to band the plywood. It holds it up and will keep it from being tipped over. I have applied thousands of feet of edgeband with it and find it very useful, much faster than most other ways. And, it takes up a lot less room than my Brandt did. There are a few negatives, you can't band anything less than about 4 1/2" without figuring another way to use it. I had a lot of narrow pieces to do for one job and mounted it sideways on a...Read more

I have a small cabinet shop. Couldn't afford a used $5000 hot pot machine, so I tried one of these. It took about 30 minutes to adjust, probably coulnd have been 10 minute if I bought the 7/8" banding. But I got it right and man is this fast. 3/4" banding goes on perfectly straight. You can move this faster than you want, I use low power most of the time. I'd say you can do a 4 foot edge in 15 to 20 seconds. All in all a very good machine, not like the $20,000 power feed, trim shave models, but for a small shop more than adequate.