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On 25 Sep 2004 15:50:40 -0700, (Roly) wrote:

A router can be used ( carefully ) to produce a lovely bevel or curved
edge on slate.

It all depends on your slate.

Some Welsh stuff will work beautifully (look at old 1920's electrical
panels). Lakeland slate might take the finish, but it's hard enough
to destroy most tooling. Other slates, especially recycled roofing
slates, will just collapse into shards when you look at them.

The best slate I've found for machining was old stuff used for cold
water tanks (1900's Liverpool this wasn't uncommon - lead joints to
seal them). It even made it worth the trouble of getting the slabs
out of the roofspace without ust breaking them in situ.

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Smert' spamionam