Cutting live rock - Can you?

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BrianC

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[I'd prefer not to buy a diamond bit for my miter saw.

But, I have some zoos and 2 different kind of polyps on the same peice of live rock and would like to seperate them any suggestions???

Can I use a standard blade (heavy duty) to cut through live rock?]
 
[I wouldn't suggest it. No reason to possibly ruin a $50 blade.

The easiest thing to do would be to get a masonary bit Drill several holes in a line then take a hammer/chisel and tap it on the line. It should fall right apart.

That way should it screw up your bit (which I doubt) your only out a couple bucks!]
 
[I assume you can take it out of the tank?

I did my live rock shaping with a large flat tip screw driver and a hammer, slowly chistle is away where you want it to split.]
 
[You will ruin a normal blade, gotta be diamond.

Check Harbor Freight you might get a new blade cheap. There's also a diamond cutter for Dremmel if the rock is that small..

Flat blade screwdriver and hammer...

Or just hit it with a seldge hammer, you'll have lots of frags! :taz:]



Edited By units0000 on 1106069745
 
[I would also recommend the hammer and chisel route unless you need/want a really clean cut. In that case, you don't have to use diamond blades, but you would need to get the carbide chop blades (not real expensive ) and it should cut through it like butter. I've used that type on a circular saw to cut brick to the shapes and sizes I desired and it is much harder than the fiji. On another note though, and another reason to just chisel it... is the excess saltwater inside will be slung around whatever saw you use... and it doesn't help lubricate machinery much. :idea:
HTH]
 
[FYI if you haven't done it yet...LR makes a huge mess when broke open, Fiji did anyways, I'd assume others would as well.]
 
[I suppose you could cut a rock with a saw so that it has a flat surface to use a base rock only where it touches the glass bottom. That would really keep the rock from shifting as much if it was flat on the bottom glass like that.]
 
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