How to bevel drywall well?

[bygges]

Hello again, missed an important thing on how to handle the surform most easily.
Stand beside the side that is to be chamfered, pull the surform slightly diagonally downward and TOWARDS you with a LIGHT pressure.
The secret is to pull the surform and chamfer TOWARDS you, much easier than pulling away from you. You have significantly better control over the pull and pressure that way

But as already mentioned, it's also possible to chamfer the edge with a gypsum knife, but I think it's harder for a novice. As a professional, that's what I do most often ;-)

Thanks, I'm familiar with the surform as it has been used frequently after cutting boards. But I have a really cheap surform and whether it's that or operator error, chamfering edges with it results in the cardboard becoming frayed.

 

[sinuslinus]

A careless friend worked as a carpenter and often wrote that text with a construction pencil on drywall.
One morning when he came to work, the walls in an entire room were perforated with a hammer, and the text "The carpenter will fix it."
The painters were suspected, but no one confessed.

Doesn't sound like someone you want to work with directly…

That's not really what I meant, but more that painters generally have to fix a lot of stuff that others have messed up. Most people overlook a few rough drywall edges.

 

[sinuslinus]

So you can skip this step and the painter will be just as happy for it?

If you make sure that the drywall screws are countersunk, they'll probably be satisfied with the rest..

 

[HogeN]

Before painting, I bevel edges on gypsum that meets another gypsum, where they are not recessed or beveled. I have used a razor blade from a gypsum knife and it works but it gets a bit wavy no matter how I do it. It probably doesn't matter but it looks a bit silly to the painter? Is there any tip on how to make this look nice, like the edges on ceiling gypsum?

I've also tried the "chamfer plane" from Biltema [link] which was terribly bad, tore the paper apart.

That one is used when you're trimming away excess when gluing edge bands on melamine boards when you're making cabinets/shelves. And beveling the edges is something you don't think about once you've done it a few times... but cut the paper 1-4cm from the edge and then try to get an angle from the cut line to halfway down the gypsum edge... sort of.