I'm about to start a new project which is a dresser/ wine cabinet in a colonial marble topped dresser style. I have the design (in my head), I have the marble top (1200 x 600 x 20 'afghan jade', dark green with ivory swirls) and I've put an offer in on some old slabbed Australian red cedar but I'm a bit stumped until I work out how to fix the top to the cabinet OR find out how it was done 'in the old days'?
In a few select places I could drill right through the marble and the structure above would hide the screw heads but I feel it will need more fixing points?
I haven't yet tried to drill the marble but, presuming I can, I could drill blind holes from underneath and epoxy in either short threaded rods or threaded inserts?
So;
- Has anyone done this before?
- can I drill marble?
- does anyone have a marble topped dresser and how is the marble top fixed?
Many thanks, fletty