Some of you may remember that one of MY hobbies is dabbling in making knives, and I sometimes inlaid a bit of Turquoise in them. Real Turquoise direct from a mine in AZ. I would buy palm size cutoff slabs 1/4" thick from what they call Floor slabs. Unfortunately the mine is closed or closing and they no longer have Floor slabs. Miss T found some chunks on Ebay that I planned to cut on my Wet Tile Saw. Didn't work out. Mine is a 4-1/2" wet saw, basically about a 2" cut.
I ended up with a few pieces still left from the AZ mine, and these chunks I needed to find someone to cut.
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Tina looked online and found some bigger wet saws used in the $500 range. Miss Lisa brought HER pro tile saw over today to start cutting the bathroom tile and marble for the walls. The Dewalt saw sells for $1,400. It would do the job. She told me to go ahead and cut what I needed while she was working on the layouts.
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Taking my time and letting the saw do the work, I cut the chunks into slab pieces I can work with in the future. I'll be able to cut them on the smaller wet saw I have to make spacers, accent pieces, or scales for the knives down the road. Stroke of luck.
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Patience is a virtue.
The bathroom is coming along. When she finishes the guest bath, the master bath is ahead....
Some things had to be ordered, which is where starting early paid off.
