Diamond Tools For Granite Fabricating

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.

Zero Tolerance Blades
If you need to take a heavy-duty approach to stock removal of extra-hard granite or any other natural stone to prepare for polishing, a zero tolerance grinding blade should be considered as the tool of choice. This 3″ x 1-1/2″ tool is a hybrid metal bond - resin-bonded grinding drum for use on a wet stone grinder. It features a clean, aggressive cut on granite and other natural or engineered stones. It is a wet only tool. Manufactured by Diamante Italia this tool features and benefits are…

– Great for rapid stock removal of natural stone
– 5/8″ threaded arbor
– Excellent quality for working with hard granite.

Cutting a granite slab may not be as complicated as you think. Start by making 4 non-connected straight cuts leaving each cut 2″ shy of the adjacent cut. Then, use a core drill for connecting the cuts. You now have a hole with some really funky looking “corners”. A diamond core bit like this one is best for this job. It’s dry cutting, and will go on any electric angle grinder.

Next, you take a grinding drum and grind that “corner” back into an inside arc. The grinding drum’s diameter will be dictated by the radius of the arc you want. Grinding drums with 1″ - 3″ diameters are here.

If only reading about it isn’t good enouigh, you can see this process demonstrated on a DVD video titled, “The undermount sink from start to finish”

If you’re cutting tiles, you could cut the tile from both sides, and tilt the tile up in the tile saw to get it close, but you may still want to finish grinding the inside arc with the diamond brazed grinding drum.

Either way, you will have to polish it when it’s ground to match the face of the stone tiles. This all applies when you are doing an undermount sink… where it will all be visible. If it is not going to be visible then finishing it is unnecessary. Just make sure the hole is big enough to accommodate the sink and small enough where the sink flange will cover it.