I have a sheet of marble from a fireplace merchant (they have to cut out a big hole to suit whatever fire you want to fit) and I intend to use it as a decorative base for my many models.
Can I cut this with an ordinary saw, using water as a lubricant, and, afterwards, how to polish up the cut edges?
Here on the left coast I have cut marble with a diamond blade in an electric hand saw. Here the blades cost only about $20. Then I put rounded edges edges on the sides with an ordinary woodworking router with carbide bits. It would be a good idea to protect the surface with some type of thin material. CP
PS. No water done dry
It depends what you mean by an ordinary saw. Chainsaw, fretsaw, tenon saw, chop saw? Commercially it is done with carbide or diamond tipped teeth almost flooded with water.
Cliff Coggin.
When I had a lump of Bath Stone I used an ordinary hacksaw and water to cut it up for the tunnel mouths on the garden rly. Bath Stone however is very soft
An ideal saw would be one of the ones used by tilers, such as this:
Regards, Tony
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