Phyllite Slabs: The Silky Metamorphic Between Slate and Schist
Phyllite fabrication guide: identifying the silky metamorphic stone, cutting with its foliation, edge work, finishing, sealing choices, and best uses.
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Stone Fabrication News & Guides
Expert tips, how-to guides, and industry news for stone fabrication professionals. Learn about granite, marble, quartz countertop fabrication, tool maintenance, and shop management.
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Hornfels: Working With Dense Contact-Metamorphic Stone
A working guide to hornfels for stone professionals: how contact metamorphism builds this dense, splintery rock and what it means for cutting and use.
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Granulite: Working with High-Grade Metamorphic Stone Slabs
Granulite explained for fabricators: cutting, polishing, and installing garnet-flecked high-grade metamorphic slabs sold under premium granite trade names.
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Greenstone: Working Dense Metavolcanic Stone Slabs
A fabricator's guide to greenstone: its chlorite-epidote-actinolite mineralogy, hardness, cutting and finishing technique, best feature uses, sealing, and care.
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Working Fuchsite Green Stone: Mica-Rich Metamorphic Slabs
Fabricate fuchsite-bearing green stone with confidence: mineralogy, mixed-hardness cutting, plucking-free polishing, sealing, and care for these mica-rich
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Gneiss Fabrication: Working With Banded Metamorphic Stone
How to fabricate gneiss, the banded high-grade metamorphic stone: its quartz-feldspar structure, cutting with the grain, polishing, sealing, and care.
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Schist Stone Fabrication: Properties, Challenges and Techniques
Schist is one of those natural stones that generates questions when it shows up at the shop. Its pronounced layered structure, metallic sheen from mica minerals, and unpredictable behavior under...
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