Diamond Tools For Granite Fabricating

First, let’s define what bullnosing is. If you’re considering tackling a kitchen, bathroom or bar countertop fabrication and installation yourself, you’re going to come across the bullnose term frequently. Bullnosing is the process of adding a smooth, finished, aesthetically-pleasing edge to an unfinished natural stone, granite slab or tile. A good bullnosing job also protects the edge from chipping and cracking.

Natural stone such as granite, marble and travertine in slab form are popular choices for new construction and remodeling or reconstruction projects. Decorative stone, ceramic, and custom or hand-made tiles can be alternative substitutes for massive stone slabs, because tiles can be easily installed by one DIY person working alone.

Bullnosing requires specialized diamond tools… like diamond grinders, routers, polishing pads and shapers… for cutting, grinding, and polishing natural stones like granite and marble. When ceramic or porcelain tiles require bullnosing, the tile must be cut, bullnosed, and the edge or trim must be polished and refinished to match the surface finish. All the tools and accessories needed for cutting, grinding, sanding, finishing and polishing the average DIY countertop project along with instruction is offered.

Need to drill granite, marble, any natural stone, porcelain, concrete… even glass? Then you need to be using diamond drilling bits. There are Diamond Drill Bits for drilling ceramic tile, drilling glass, concrete, porcelain, granite and other natural stone. Diaomnd drilling bits provide drilling solutions for almost every material imaginable to help you get the job done right and as inexpensively as possible. These Diamond Drill Bits are made to last long through heavy, daily, professional use, so they’ll save you money, and they’ll make your job easier.

Fluted, high-speed diamond drill bits have brazed diamond on the cutting edge allowing you to make small, chip-free holes in ceramic tile, travertine, marble or glass. They fit a regular drill chuck and may be run wet or dry. Need to set an anchor? Now you never have to worry about busting the material with a rotary hammer. Diamond drill bits cut through glass or tiles or just about any material you can imagine, and they do it very cost-efficiently.

Diamond drill bits come in many different sizes and shapes but are primarily of two basic styles, blunt nose bits and core drill bits.  There are also two basic types of diamond drill bits relating to the application of the diamonds; bonded and sintered.

Blunt nose bits are solid at the tip and have diamonds on the tip and on the sides of the tip.  This style of bit drills a complete hole by grinding a full hole the size of the tip.  Core drill bits however, are hollow at the tip.  They have diamonds along the edge of the tip and slightly up the sides of the tip, similar to a margarita glass that has been “rimmed” with salt.  Diamond core drill bits grind or saw a circle at the edge of the tip rather than the full diameter of the tip.  A core drill results in a hole the size of the tip and a smaller “core” or “plug” that comes from the middle of the hole.  Core drills are often called hole saws, since they grind or saw a circle to create a hole.