You can buy a load of "Cobble Stone" - Cobble is the physical size.
Go to a local sand and rock dealer - find some nice cobbles or larger -
and buy a load and have it delivered.

Simple as that. Been there done that.

Now that you have the stone - do you have a slab saw ? A slab saw
is a large wheel running verticle in a water based coolant and a strong
chuck - like a kurt - with big jaws - to hold the stone that is held in
wood that the metal jaws push on.

Slab saws are not cheap - but if you are doing a lot of it - do it.


See if there is a local Geology club near buy - common in that neck of
the woods - lived in Round Rock for years.


Martin

Martin Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
NRA LOH & Endowment Member
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder



knowone wrote:
Yes, Gary, I would like to see the pictures.

Limestone is common in our area, too - Central Texas. However, I don't want
to do limestone rather, hard flint like rocks or anything that I pick up.

Maybe one can't saw flint. What I really want are stones of different sizes
and colors and shapes.

ko
"Gary Brady" wrote in message
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knowone wrote:

By the way, I know nothing about stone cutting but I want to cut large
field stones to cover our fireplace and other things.

The front of the stone will be rough, as found in the field but the back
will need to be sawn so that I can mortar them in place.

Anyone with tips/experience?

I did something like this a while back. I took some chopped white
limestone, typical building rock in our area, and sawed off the rough
faces of the stones with a brick saw. Total thickness was about 1 1/4".
The wall to be covered was first covered with cement backerboard (James
Hardy product), and the stone was glued to the backer using regular
thinset tile adhesive. The stones were held in place with drywall screws
until the adhesive set, then the screws were removed. The spaces in
between were filled with white cement/sand mortar, and the whole thing
came out looking like a rock wall but with minimal thickness. If anyone
wants to see the results, I can post a picture somewhere.
--
Gary Brady
Austin, TX
www.powdercoatoven.4t.com




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