Cutting sandstone patio slabs.

Once you have used one with a diamond disc, the normal abrasive ones do seem kind of pointless !

Agreed, its like driving a mini metro then getting in a ferrari. They do however make great frisbee`s.

Hi,

How thick is a diamond cutting disk? Anyone tried one of these on wood?

cheers, Pete.

Only used one on wood indirectly (i.e. it was the bit of scrap under the slab being cut!) - it will create smoke, heat, wear out the disc faster and do a few other things... cutting the wood in any timely fashion not being one of them ;-)

OK, I've had reasonable results cutting wood with a thin metal cutting disc where access is limited, so I'll stick to that...

(Eg cutting through the edge of plywood floor where it runs under a partition wall, anyone know another way of doing it?)

cheers, Pete.

One of those electric knives on steroids?

You can get special wood cutting discs, they basically have a loop of chainsaw chain round the perimeter. They are designed for rapid cutting of wood and sculpting eyc. Axminster do them.

Reciprocating saw with a long blade, biscuit jointer perhaps.

They're for carving not cutting. If you try and cut with them, expect kickbacks.

I'll not use the chainsaw sort - the solid Arbortech disks are much safer.

Angle grinder will do it, but use a carborundum disc or (shudder) mount up a rotary saw blade on the end of a drill.

Yes, its lethal so watch out.

However I used this to cut a plastic vertical soil pipe from inside where it was below floor level, successfully.

Thanks, an Arbortech Tuff Cut looks just the thing to use, probably good for trimming skirting and door frames too.

cheers, Pete.