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RE: Mineral Mondays #32 - Cutting Slabs
One last note, tile saws are loud and throw off shards of the material cutting. I always use safety glasses and earplugs. As careful and experienced as I am, I've had saws shoot pieces of rock into my arm and have had the saw bite the rocks throwing them and my hand away.
A few months ago I went on a lapidary tutorial kick on youtube, I remember seeing a couple crafters using fully enclosed automated saws to cut slabs for cabs, precisely for those reasons.
Are you into lapidary? I tried cabbing, but due to not having the polishing machine at my house I lost interest. I just like to go out and dig the rocks up, cut them and pass them off to the artists to do their work.
Like I mentioned, the bigger saws also use mineral oil. That would make a huge mess without the enclosures.
Actually, the larger saws like the Lortone are much quieter than your average tile saw. I'd love to get my hands on a 12" saw and set it up in the garage. I would run it as much as possible. Need to have something to do other than worry about bitcoin every day.
I'm only into it right now as an interested observer. There's a local craft studio which does it, but I'm studiously avoiding new hobbies while I finish up grad school. One day I hope to do a little faceting though.