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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2013 15:23:03 GMT -5
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Post by christopherl1234 on Nov 8, 2013 19:40:15 GMT -5
I wish I had the saws they get to play with!!
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Post by christopherl1234 on Nov 8, 2013 19:43:04 GMT -5
I wish I had the saws they get to play with!!
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Post by kaldorlon on Nov 13, 2013 15:33:20 GMT -5
Show walls for sure...nice mats!
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Post by panamark on Nov 13, 2013 22:29:34 GMT -5
Gorgeous, but a bit out of my price range given the 100 m2 minimum order. Wow that would make a beautiful, mesmerizing wall. Thx for posting.
----------------------------------------------------------- Azul Macaubus quartzite marble FOB Price: US $99 - 699 / Square Meter Port: FOBxiamen, China Minimum Order Quantity: 100 Square Meter/Square Meters Supply Ability: 2000 Square Meter/Square Meters per Month
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2013 23:38:31 GMT -5
I can buy 55 sq ft slabs (5.5 sq meter) probably two needed for a normal shower. It's not as expensive as you see at stonecontact. That is a Chinese reseller. We have suppliers that import direct from Brazil. Retail $250 sq meter ($25 sq foot). $10,000 in labor & materials for a shower. It's pricey but not extravagant by SoKal standards. A tile shower is $6000 labor & materials locally. christopherl1234 not expensive tools just a water skilsaw and an angle grinder with proper pads... . I have seen your work. I am totally confident you could make a gorgeous shower from that stone. I was at the slab yard today and I saw one "marble" that looked like a 5ft by 10ft agate, yellow and brown fortifications, but the eyes were 18" across! Only 5-6 layers make the entire slab! I will get a pic next time I am there.
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Post by Rockoonz on Nov 15, 2013 17:59:40 GMT -5
I think he is referring to the big wire saws they use to cut the slabs with.
Lee
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2013 16:22:55 GMT -5
I think he is referring to the big wire saws they use to cut the slabs with. Lee Ohh.. I thought he wanted to work with large granite/quartzite already slabbed. My bad. Anybody with lapidary knowledge, space, a couple $thousand and the gumption to make it happen can do. After all these are just giant slabs of stone. Granite is a rock like everything else. My boss hates it when I call a gorgeous granite slab "a rock!".
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2013 16:39:49 GMT -5
Do you pick up after job is finished scraps? (sink and hole cuts) I have picked up some great scraps of marble behind counter top shops. Jim
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Post by Rockoonz on Nov 17, 2013 16:57:43 GMT -5
There's a local who turns the sink cut-outs and scraps into cutting boards and various other creations that he sells at Christmas bazaars.
Lee
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2013 21:51:22 GMT -5
sink cutouts for cutting boards is the finest thing ever invented............. for the knife industry. Unless made of marble those things ruin more knives than anything!
@wampidy, I did not sell any. I ran across that slab while helping a client choose another variety for her kitchen.
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Post by gemfeller on Nov 23, 2013 17:00:01 GMT -5
That stone is beautiful. And being curious by nature I had to find out what blue mineral created those lovely patterns. Trafford Centre is a huge shopping complex in Manchester, England where rare and beautiful building stones from many locations were used in its construction. Here's what a geology group has to say: "STONES AT THE TRAFFORD CENTRE, MANCHESTER - Field Notes Visit by the Manchester Geological Association, Sunday 14 July 2002 "Under the dome at the foot of the escalator the blue stones comprise the blue-streaked Azul Macauba, a quartz-sandstone with the unusual mineral dumortierite (an aluminium borosilicate), about 1000 million years in age, from Brazil. Note the cross-stratification. "The (darker) blue Azul Bahia (also from Brazil) is a syenite (intermediate in composition between a granite and a gabbro) with the blue mineral sodalite (a sodium aluminium silicate chloride). These blue rocks are expensive. Whereas most of the granites and gneisses at the Trafford Centre cost between £50 and £90 per square metre the Azul Macauba costs about £440 per square metre and the Azul Bahia between £450 and £1000!" This is an image of the Azul Bahia mentioned above:
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2013 18:31:52 GMT -5
I would hate to be the one that dropped one of those. They would probably put me on a street corner trying to sell the small pieces one at a time. Jim
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2013 14:25:55 GMT -5
bookmatched slabs of azul bahia -
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