Thread: I Found It Over There

What good ways to work stone are there, budget wise not rediculous though? Id like to invest in a good cutter/lapper kinda machinery but most seems expensive

Some of it depends on how hard the rock is. Metamorphic rock can from soft enough to cut it with a hacksaw to hard enough to require a diamond saw. That holds true with the lapping as well. Dia flat plates or wet dry sand paper. One of the guys is able to use simple and inexpensive grinder discs. I am not so lucky and am stuck with the pricey plates. All the rock around here that I have found is either hard or cracked, crumbling, full of voids and fissures. I do have a lot of nice hone rocks though so I will not complain.

I found this, would this work? 7 in. Portable Wet Cutting Tile Saw
I guess the thickness of material would play a role in ease of use. I figure maybe if you can make one cut a chisel and hammer could reduce the thickness to a manageable size.

those will work. they are limiting as to how deep and how fast you can cut, however when I am playing with rocks time is not ever really a factor. I use an MK brand tile saw MK Diamond - MK-370EXP Tile Saw and that gets my slices off of the 2" thick slabs I cut with my Stihl saw. If my tile saw was bigger and heavier built it would have less wobble in the cuts and my slabs would lap faster, however I am not really trying to get commercial productivity. At this point I'm having fun.