Thread: From wood to marble

WoW, very impressive for a first up shot, is it a lot more expensive to do than wood?

Originally Posted by Robthechisel

WoW, very impressive for a first up shot, is it a lot more expensive to do than wood?

A bit, the marble is more expensive and you do have to spend a bit on some new tools and then dust could be an issue to some people so it could end up costing quite a bit more. I will start relatively small and work up. THen there is weight 3000kgs/m3 just a little heavier than timber so chain block/hoist etc will come into play at some point.

Nice to see some wood again CH I bet you have felt as tho her eyes followed you around the workshop even into hidden corners

Yeh, just need to get her done now and out of the workshop though. While she does stand vertical and doesn't take up a lot of floor space she still commands a bit space and things have to revolve around her to a large degree. Hmm sounds like a typical woman BANG,,,, owww, did I say that

Very nice ! Seem you don't need to clamp it on the bench with stone !

Originally Posted by Liogier

Yes, the stone rifflers differ from the wood rifflers by two things : the shape of the working parts are different (mostly its bending to suit better stone working) and the main difference are the shape of the teeth, that are rounded for stone instead of triangular for wood : we call this kind of stitching for stone « fish scale », it improves the durability of the tool and the smoothness of the rasped surface.

I've been trying a friend's fish scale custom riffler on wood, found it quite nice to work with (smoothness, yes...). Unfortunately, the guy who made these tools stopped his business. So d'you think stone rasps would do the same work on wood ?

Originally Posted by copeau

Very nice ! Seem you don't need to clamp it on the bench with stone !



I've been trying a friend's fish scale custom riffler on wood, found it quite nice to work with (smoothness, yes...). Unfortunately, the guy who made these tools stopped his business. So d'you think stone rasps would do the same work on wood ?

Exactly Copeau, as she is now, finished she probably still weighs about 60 - 70 kgs so no it doesn't need clamps
I will have to reserve judgement on the stone rasps until I have my 6 new ones I have ordered from FF and Liogier. The one Italian stone
rasp I have has the same shape tooth (pretty much) as the Liogiers (for wood) that I have now. Liogier said his have different teeth so I will
wait until I get them and let you know. Hope they do work ok on wood too