/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2716230
Yeah, I've cut myself many times on shards of shattered stone. Recently was drilling hardware into a slab for a full stone vanity, picrel style, hard ass quartzite. I guess I pushed too hard it literally exploded in my face and acted like glass. I had to jigsaw it all together since each drawer was cut from one slab, losing one drawer was maybe 15-20k of stone, so I picked the pieces up, glued them back with a color matched epoxy and ground it back and polished. I've also seen a couple slabs break on a natural vein/fischer while suspended from a crane in the shop. Nothing like a slab 1500lb slab of granite landing on its side, flopping over and just breaking into chunks when it hits the floor, slow motion. I always hide when people are moving slabs. Besides that nobody I know has died or lost a finger from stone.

>>2615087
Well, I'm currently working on a 50 thousand square foot home. I spent my week assembling a really complicated vanity top made of marble, the veins pass from the top, over into the drawers which are also made of marble. Our tolerance is 1/16th between drawers.

One of them shattered while we drilled it and I had to reassemble it, color match the veins and grind it back to a flat surface because losing a drawer means losing the whole vanity since is one continuous slab.

It alone costs upwards of 50-70k, I can't post a photo but basically picrel suspended from a wall.