Thread: I Found It Over There

Originally Posted by joamo

I'm thinking of trying a diamond cup wheel to knock off the high spots on one of the quartzites.

The good thing is they really take material off fast. The bad thing is they really take material off fast. I have both success and failure. I kept thinking if I could mount the grinder above a work surface and then push the stone through and have it work more like a planner that it would be superb.

Originally Posted by RezDog

The good thing is they really take material off fast. The bad thing is they really take material off fast. I have both success and failure. I kept thinking if I could mount the grinder above a work surface and then push the stone through and have it work more like a planner that it would be superb.

Now you've got me thinking, I'll post pics if I come up with a good solution.

I used to use a diamond cup wheel all the time when I was doing more stone work. My strategy was to lightly nip the stone on a 4" x 10" diamond plate to ID the high points, then grind on those a bit and check against the diamond plate again. Back and forth until I could just go to the diamond plate or some loose grit to finish the job.