Granite Surface Plates For A Hobbyist's Shop

[verbotenwhisky]

Deluxe Stone Slab the largest I see now is 12"x12".

 

[Dabbler]

For a possible cheap but generic surface plate, is there any Granite countertop places around you. I have a couple drops from my local place that I use. It’s scary how many big pieces they throw away.

The places around here sell leftovers, but using a repeat-o-meter shows that they have dips and mountains +/- .005 all over the face. A friend of mine tried 3 of them - before he bought a busy bee surface plate, 12X18". Even from offshore it was sub tenths on the repeat-o-meter.

My wifey bought a piece of granite 16"x16"x 1.25"thk from Tandy Leather products for 40 bucks, they sell these for folks to use on a table when they are working with leather shaping tools.

well, then it was a GREAT deal!!! congrats!