Folks,
I have a piece of synthetic marble (trenotine sp?). can I cut it with a masonry blade, dry with a circular saw? Do I need to find someone with a wet cut saw.
Frank
Folks,
I have a piece of synthetic marble (trenotine sp?). can I cut it with a masonry blade, dry with a circular saw? Do I need to find someone with a wet cut saw.
Frank
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Hi Bis ....
I don't know what this stuff you have is like so perhaps someone else will provide more exact advice .... if it were me and I got no other feedback, I'd go buy as cheap a diamond blade as I could find, small diameter just big enough to make a through cut in your oldest grungiest circular saw, one you don't care too much about. Use that saw and the diamond blade with a slow trickle of water from a hose running across the slab to keep the blade cool.
A stone mason tipped me off on the best way to use a diamond blade in a circular saw like this with water - turn it around and cut 'backwards'. The blades not likely to bind and climb out of the cut like it would with a wood blade cutting timber. And the water is thrown down and more or less away from the saw.
I cut out a 10' x 4' piece of concrete slab from my driveway this way (taking light cuts each time, about 1/4" into the slab) and it worked pretty well. I wore some really heavy rubber gloves for obvious reasons. I don't know anyone personally that's been killed by 100v power but it don't feel all the good none the less.
'specially when you've got wet hands!
Dennis in Bellevue WA
woodnut@anatechsys.com
Frank,
I brought my piece of granite over to HD...they cut it there for a buck.
With it being synthetic, if it is anything like Corian then you can cut it with a bandsaw
John
I think this is very rock like stuff. It probably requires a diamond/carborundum blade.
Frank
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