Marenakos Rock Center
Stone Fabrication 
How do you shape stone anyway?
 
This is a Free Event!
Bring your friends, family, colleagues, bosses, apprentices, anybody.
When:
April 18th. (Fri.)
10:00am-3:00pm

Please let us know if you are planning to attend

Sandwich lunch will be served by Marenakos. We will have a vegetarian option, however, if you have special dietary needs, please bring your lunch.
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Our 9' saw blade. Tipped with alloy embedded with diamond. As the tips come into contact with the hard stone, the alloy is abraded away and the diamonds are exposed. Then the exposed diamonds do the actual cutting. We use water to keep the stone and blade cool and also to keep the dust down. We will show you this machine in action!

We will be hosting the Stone Fabrication Day on April

18th. This is one of the most often requested event days! 


Long ago, stones were the central tools we used.  And stone was also the tool used to shape stone tools.
Then, gradually we discovered and invented cleverer and more efficient ways to shape the stones. Our ability to shape stone and use them advanced exponentially as we started to use tools other than stone.

Now we can cut stones with blades tipped with alloys embedded with tiny bits of diamond. We have carbide tipped chisels and diamond powder infused
This is Arnold hitting the edge of a slab with a torch. The sparks that you see are actually stone spall. Not all stones take the torch like this. We will have a demonstration of this method as well.
pads. We can grind stones to give them shape, texture them, and split them. We can do so much more to them.

So, how does it work? What does diamond tipped or carbide tipped mean? What does it take?  Where do I find these kind of tools? Where can I learn more about shaping stone? Should I even try to do it myself? Is it safe? How fast is the process?

In this month's event, Marenakos will address all the questions you may have on shaping stone. 

 

We will take you on a tour of our extensive fabrication facility; the saw and split shop, where you will see our 9' saw in action and the 300 ton splitter split stone, the fabrication shop, the  sandblast shop, the tumbler...etc.

 Also, we will have demonstrations of many procedures; flaming (hitting the

The carbide "teeth" of our 300 ton splitter. We feed the stone between the teeth and crunch down on it to split it. We will see this in action as well

stone with a torch!), rock-facing, polishing, cutting, splitting, sandblasting...etc.  

  
Bring all your friends and family and co-workers and students and teachers. Also, make sure you bring all the questions you have had about shaping stone.
We will give you ear plugs and goggles and we will have fun! 
   
The ever-trusty hand tools. Some don't look like they would be effective (like the one with flat end), but you will see. 
We LOVE hearing from you.
Let us know if you have any comments, suggestions, ideas, questions, anything!

Sincerely,
Kentaro Kojima
Marenakos Rock Center

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