Tuesday 12 November 2013

Girl's best friends 2


This little flying saucer (I hope it doesn't) is studded with thousands of diamonds and is the latest bit of kit I have for ripping off large amounts of marble in a reasonably controlled manner.

I love taking these things out of the box and admiring them before they become sullied with use. I love doing that much more than I do actually using the bloody things. Oh well, I suppose I had better go off and do it.


23 comments:

  1. I love my angle grinder. A beast.

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    1. I bet yours isn't variable speed though? (grinder envy...)

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  2. I see them all the time as my husband makes them ..... all sorts of them ..... even for Formula One !! They are also sent to the customer in a beautiful wooden box. XXXX

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    1. Mine came in a cardboard box, but I have nothing to do with F1.

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  3. This is two great paragraphs in one post. Love your work.

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  4. What a beautiful piece of engineering. The best art in my opinion.

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  5. looks like it is a rappers medallion in platinum and diamonds.

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    1. Yes it does, eh? A bit heavy, but they seem to like that.

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    2. Dang, she beat me to it. I would wear that as a pendant. I don't care about diamonds. Just the metal part.

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    3. Well they only cost about £60 - a fraction of what they would if you bought it from Cartier.

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  6. Some boy's best friend too! ;)

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    1. Well, it's good in a tight corner - it has diamonds up the edges as well.

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  7. What I want to know is do bits of those diamonds ever fly off when you are using the tool and if so what do you do with them?

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    1. Yes, some of them must do, but if I don't eat them at the time, I never know what happens to them.

      These diamonds are electro-bonded to the wheel, but another method is to bond them to segments which are then brazed to the wheel.

      I was once looking down the edge of one of these segmented, 15 inch wheels (rotating at about 3000 RPM) when a segment flew off like an unseen bullet.

      If it had hit me, I would be dead or at least in need or serious surgery, but - in the event - I never found it.

      They come off at about the same speed as a sub-sonic bullet. I don't like segmented blades for this reason.

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  8. Headline: Diminutive dastardly diamonds deliver near-departure.

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    1. I think the word 'deadly' could fit in there somewhere?

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  9. I put deadly in, but as you didn't actually die, I took it out again.

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