Subject: Re: ?How to cut a grantite surface plate?

From: T Lipton <[email-masked]>
Date: 5 Jun 1996 00:35:21 GMT

[email-masked] (Jay McMunn) wrote:
>
> I was just given a granite surface plate, 12" x 18", because it was 
> damaged in shipment and replaced but "do not return" etc.  Does 
> anyone have a suggestion on cutting it off clean and neat?  Do

  Jay I recently contacted a Monument maker that had a diamond wire saw.
This is the method that is used to quarry large chunks of marble and granite. 
 In talking with this fellow he told me that they prefer to use their large
diamond bladed circular saw. He could handle up to eight inches thick with the circular
saw. He had to use the diamond wire saw for my job because of the greater depth of cut.

 Good luck  TML