Replies

1. 
   DennisS | Sep 23, 2003 05:10am | #1

   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

   [email protected]

2. 
   BG | Sep 23, 2003 04:53pm | #2

   Frank,

   I brought my piece of granite over to HD...they cut it there for a buck.
3. 
   john | Sep 23, 2003 05:50pm | #3

   With it being synthetic, if it is anything like Corian then you can cut it with a bandsaw

   John

1. 
   Biscardi | Sep 24, 2003 02:27am | #4

   I think this is very rock like stuff. It probably requires a diamond/carborundum blade.

   Frank