I am building a retaining wall for which I need to build 2 right-angle cornersI would like to cut the stones very precisely, so that I could fit and glue the corner stones togetherWere I doing this with wood, a band saw would be the ideal tool to make such cutsSo, is there a bandsaw that can be used to cut stone ?It obviously needs to be waterproof to allow for water flow to lubricated and cool the blade bandIt also needs a floating deck to allow movement of the stone toward the cutting blade.

I saw one of these at the tool rental shopThe problem is that to do the cuts I need, I would have to build 2 different jigs to hold the stones to cut it with this toolThe stones have a flat base, and I need to need to make cuts on the vertical axis.The front of the stone is neither smooth nor consistently aligned with the other surfaces, and therefore would require shimming to make the cutTo make the side cuts, I would need to shim up the side of the stonesSo this is the second fall-back choice.A bandsaw would allow me to make simple cuts by pusshing the stone into the blade used the saw platform without any alignement or jigs.A far better choiceI also need a 7" cuttting face, or in the case of the above tool cutting depth. It's borderline that the blade would reach the other cuts. Whereas the bandsaw would garantee it.

Cutting stone with bandsaw ?

May 22, 2006 22 Replies

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Goedjn 20 years ago

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Ashlar is when you cut the stone into blocks when you're building a stone wall, as opposed to "rubble", which is when you don't.

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When you said you were building a retaining wall, and wanted to cut the stone, for some reason I assumed you were building a stone wall, but apparently not.

JUst forget I said anything.

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<ThrowAwayAddress 20 years ago

Saw that while searching. Looks very impressive But haven't seen any portable versions of it They all seem to be large-bed machines that are permanently installed.

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<ThrowAwayAddress 20 years ago

OK I'm just using molded cement retaining wall blocks Thanks for clearing up the vocabulary. (Just goes to show that life is about learning new things everyday)

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