Working with stone

[area tiling]

I don't work to much with stone etc , but this week I was laying marble ! I have a few more jobs coming up soon that are travertine and def don't want to be using my everyday wet cutter again! Can anyone recommend a good bridge saw for £500 /800 ! Would you use the bridge cutters for porcelain much?

 

[widler]

Ive just bought this mate,just over £700
I will post a link when i can remember where i got it from .
Problem is i dont want to use it and get it mucky

not that i want to take trade away from tradetiler,this is where i got mine from,a bit cheaper that tradetiler
http://www.my-tool-shed.co.uk/p2376...110_Volt_+_D24001_Leg_Stand/product_info.html

 

[Alan.P]

Another vote for the DeWalt, excellent bit of kit.

Dave at TradeTiler will sort you out

 

[bugs183]

Hi Area.
As the lads say, the Dewalt is a great piece of kit, so nice to use!!! Great for porcelain, stone etc, cuts accurately without mess.
Talk to Dave at Tradetiler as Alan says, it's good to give the great bloke business!!

 

[beanz]

The dewalt is my next buy.. It comes highly recommended... Sigma 9P is also supposed to be good, but I haven't used that one either lol!
I have used the Rubi DW250N though, and although it gets a bad press, and has the usual Rubi quality parts issues, it's the best cutter I've used on stone so far... The poor quality parts are enough to stop me from buying it, but there are plenty of people out there that happily soldier on with it!?!

 

[SJPurdy]

make sure that your selected cutter will accomodate the size of stone that you are likely to be fixing.
I use a bridge type cutter and find that the ability to be able to raise and lower the blade is useful especially with poor quality veined stone where i can cut a shallow groove across the stone and then progressively deepen it so that if the stone does decide to break it will follow the groove rather than the existing weak points.
Steve

 

[Peter]

Lomac/J&G or Armatile might have a Sigma bridge saw lying about. Out of production now so could probably pick one up cheap. Frackletons had one for £500 just before they closed.

 

[DHTiling]

The dewalt is my next buy.. It comes highly recommended... Sigma 9P is also supposed to be good, but I haven't used that one either lol!
I have used the Rubi DW250N though, and although it gets a bad press, and has the usual Rubi quality parts issues, it's the best cutter I've used on stone so far... The poor quality parts are enough to stop me from buying it, but there are plenty of people out there that happily soldier on with it!?!

Trust me when you use a Dewalt you will realise that dw250n is a toy.

 

[Peter]

DW250 isn't much use for bespoke work, more for lobbing stuff in half all day. Not worth the price tag but worth it if you can get one for a couple of hundred.

 

[charlie1]

Having went from the rubi bridge saw to the Dewalt i can compare the two, the Dewalt hammers it on power, accuracy, portability, you can also do some real good bespoke work with it!! Downside, its massive, i only ever use it on stone if I'm going to be doing anything bespoke or mitres etc. I find if in doing porc or ceramic i can get as good a finish with sigma + grinder