Polishing of quartz slabs

[BILLY BENAWRA]

Hello,

I am new member of Tilers Forum.
I used to make custom made lighting using hand blown glass extruded tubes from Murano Italy.
I want to design a new column lamp using polished quartz slab 100mm x 100mm or 120mm x 120mm as a base with hollow reeded glass tube.
I have 2 questions -
From where can I get 100mm x 100mm quartz slab WITH polished edges?
If I were to cut the quartz slab myself with a diamond tile cutter, is there an easy way I can polish the edges?
The thickness of the slab is about 10mm - 12mm and I am going to use round polished glass discs as feet of the lamp using Boehler UPV glue.

My next project will be to design a mini-bar tray using quartz tile (square and round) with small brass pillars and brass rail all around the edge of the tile.
Again the edges require polishing for a good presentation to 4 or 5 star hotels. The bottom of tray will be with felt so furniture does not get scratched. Can someone support me with some nice colour quartz tile samples?

I will appreciate to receive your comments.

Billy

 

[mz30]

You could try your local marble yard am sure they will be able to source what you need.

 

[Concrete guy]

We do polishing pads specifically designed for polishing quartz and man made product (as opposed to natural stones).

These cannot be used dry so you'll need a variable speed grinder/polisher and a constant supply of water or preferably a wet polisher.

Used wet, these will reproduce the same degree of polished achieved by the manufacturer.

You're not based that far from Compac (a quartz slab manufacturer) - may as well start talking with one of the manufacturers.

[h=2]Compac Marmol & Quartz[/h]
[COLOR=#669900 !important]Unit 4, Aerodrome Way Heston, TW5 9QB[/COLOR]
Tel: 020 8564 9377

Also the brand leader of Quartz is Silestone (Cosentino group) - You can find them here.

Kitchen countertops and quartz bathroom surfaces by Silestone


Our Quartz Polishing pads :-

 

[DHTiling]

And to add to above you can cut and re-polish the edges...

If you require up to 15mm thick then you can source through a tile shop but if thicker required then as MZ says..

 

[High Peak Tiling]

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