/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2713004
>fabrication pricing
I don't do much fabrication these days, it's been about a decade since I've run saws. Stone facilities come in two forms - the "caesarstone counter for everyone" type and the "we can do literally anything you want" type. With the first, expect a good table saw and some creative ways to shuffle slabs around and you are all set, you can even do edge work with relatively simple tools, it just takes time. The "can do everything" shop has waterjets, multiple table saws and huge edging machines, these are many many millions of dollars to get up and running - That only accounts for the fabrication. Consider you need someone who can measure, read a block and figure out where the veins are travelling for book matching, someone who can do layouts and not end up short a few slabs. Consider the blades and knowledge on which blade cuts what well, for example, you may need a new $700 blade for every single cut on very hard natural quartzite, that same blade could be running all week on marble. How about workers, PPE while using epoxies, dust collection, disposal of solvents, the right sealers etc. There are a million variables and I'm not the right guy to ask, but that should give you an idea of what's involved.

I've seen people make a lot of money just doing countertops out of their little shop vs. my home shop, which does full bookmatched layouts and ships slabs directly from all over the world, its a 10 million dollar operation if I had to guess. They even do pretty insane waterjet work, embedded led lighting in slabs etc.