Hello All

[Lee Roberts]

Seeing somthing done with stone would be new here thats for sure, looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

[petesos]

Hi All
The tooling i used on my milling machine at work and on my pillar drill at home was a diamond encrusted bit off the shelf part, and what i found was as long as the feed rate was slowed down enough and I had water continualy cooling the bit and then recycling the water back to the bit it worked very well.
The milling machine I used at work was a Toss and an adapter fitted to take a M14 size cutter , I paid £1000 for the old Toss to use in the Quarry and a job came in for a crap load of steps for an art college and I won the Job and that scared the crap out of me as I had never tried the old engineering mill out on stone but she done the job without a problem and earned £28,0000 on her first stone job but that was working nights as well .
As all things I suppose ,,,,,,high speed and slow feed or something like that.
Soap stone would be a good one to start with as it is nice and soft.....BUT believe me dont use a thermalite block or any gritstone as I used to sharpen my Diamonds with grit stone on my big 2.5mtr blade and a thermalite block for the small saw (You use the gritstone and the thermalite block to wear the compound from around the Diamonds so as to expose the new Diamonds ).
When I get up and running I will post some Photos for ya all .
Petesos