Dec. 09, 2024
Hardware
Honing and Polishing with Waynes Diamond Polishing Pad Line Up Formulas: these are polish & hone grit sequences, using diamond pads, for granite, concrete, marble, and artificial stone.
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Here are Waynes recipes for grit sequences, using our Miles Supply Gloex wet diamond polish pads and surprisingly also dry diamond discs (but using them with water in the same way as the wet pads.) Nice tip, huh? Whats more, we often think of using diamond discs for polishing with a hand-held grinder; but with the aid of our PadHead polishing & grinding heads, you can go from the grinder up to using diamond pads on a line machine!
First, well give you the HONING line-up formulas for granite, marble, and engineered stone or artificial stone. Below that, we will have the POLISHING grit orders.
The procedure for honing granite is: using wet polishing pads with grits 30, 50, 100, 200, 400 sequentially. Note that our Miles Supply Gloex part #s are provided above.
The technique for a hone finish on marble is: use WET diamond pads grits 50 and 100, but then we use the *DRY pads grits: 200 and 400, still using water!
The series of steps for a hone surface on artificial stone starts with WET diamond pads 50, 100, 200 grits then change to DRY diamond pad grit 400. *Use the dry pad as you do the wet discs; with water.
The sequence for a polish and amazing shine on a granite surface is using all WET Gloex Diamond disks with grits: 30, 100, 200, 400, 800, , then finish with Turboflex.
You can get a polish finish on concrete by running the DRY diamond pads with water! The grit progression is 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, , and finishing touch: BUFFX Super Buff pad.
The Wayne method for polishing marble starts with WET polish pads grits: 50, 100, 200, then switch to DRY polish pads (still using water): 400, 800, , grits and buff it up with BUFFX Super Buff.
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Further reading:
The series of steps and grits for a polish on Engineered Stone is WET diamond disc grits: 50, 100, 200 then DRY pads, with water, sequencing 400, 800, , and get luster with wet turboflex.
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Pretty, right? The marble piece had been fabricated for a kitchen island then returned to the shop because the owners didnt like that it had a filled fissure (an extremely narrow but long opening along the boundaries of crystalline structures in the stone - I dare you to find it!). Even with the existing sink cutout, the slab had plenty of room to fit our 6-long vanity top, 4 backsplash, and a future sidetable top or two ;) It was a crazy CRAZY good deal at $200 (priced low because it had already been cut and required a certain type of buyer) but the store also had some pretty marble remnants that they would have sold us for $35/sf for 2cm and $45 for 3cm.
Back to the bid we got. Our local supplier priced out a 6-long vanity top with 4 backsplash using a remnant from their yard. The price included the material, shop fabrication, and install and took into account the unique design and shape of our vanity top + undermount sink + faucet holes. Heres the bid:
Quartz remnant $
Fab/install $
Total $
Now heres the thing - a professional shop has better tools than we do. They have water tables and cranes and arent standing out in their driveway dripping wet with a makeshift work table, 5-year-old circular saw, and diamond blades bought on Amazon. They do this for a living and are good at it and our once-or-twice-a-year DIY project cant come close to their level of skill. So were not exactly comparing apples to apples here on quality but heres what it cost us to buy our remnant and fabricate it.
So what was the cost of our slab and install?
Marble remnant $200
Fab/Install $50*
Total = $250
*In reality, our out-of-pocket cost for this countertop was $200. Crazy, right?! But of course blades need replaced and polishing pads wear out, so I added $50 in the fabrication line item for incidentals. I literally spent more on a vintage oil painting for this space. Ha! And all in all, we saved $1,800 on this countertop by DIY-ing it.
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