Custom Fabrication: Setting The Table
By K. Schipper
Getting a piece of the custom-fabrication market may only be a tabletop negotiation away – if you’re prepared to make the table.
Category: Fabrication
Production methods and techniques.
Diamonds & Water: A Good Marriage
By Bill O’Connor
Diamonds, water and stone, in the right combination can be quite profitable. Get them of proportion, and disaster can happen.
Diamonds: A Fabricator’s Best Friend
By Jerry Paul, Tom Gjerstad and Brent Ford
Machinery will only operate as well as your tools. Don’t cut corners to save a few dollars on tooling; the $50 that you might save up front will probably cost you thousands of dollars in efficiencies and lost fabricating opportunities.
Clean Shop: Who’s the Regulator?
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 – the legislation that created OSHA – also encouraged individual states to set up job-safety and –health programs. As of December 2005, the following states operate OSHA-approved state plans:
Clean Shop: Air and Water Regulations
By K. Schipper
If something’s natural, it isn’t polluting – or is it?
Countertop Fabrication: Helpful Tips
By Mark Lauzon
“Mark, there is more than one way to skin a cat,” my grandfather used to tell me that on a regular basis.
We won’t get into the proper treatment of cats here. However, here are some simple things we’ve figured out through the years that have made countertop fabrication easier for our shop.
Blade Code Offered For Diamond Saws
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The Concrete Sawing and Drilling Association (CDSA) announced a new standard in May for identifying applications for diamond-saw blades. The standards, endorsed by the Masonry and Concrete Saw Manufacturers Institute,...
Fabrication: Quartz vs. Quarried
By K. Schipper
With more than 90 percent natural materials in each piece of quartz surface, it’s a mix that’s close to quarried materials – but, with man-made resins making up the rest of the formula and providing the color options customers love, is quartz close enough to natural stone to actually fabricate and install the same?
Hand-Held Tools: All in the Feel
By K. Schipper With all the emphasis on computerized stone production, is the end near for skilled hands and their hand-held tools? Not likely. Not only are we far from the day when every...
Customizing the Countertop, Part II
By K. Schipper The growth in stone fabrication isn’t all in large commercial projects and new housing projects – there’s plenty of production by thousands of small shops in custom countertop work. Last month,...