I've had in regard to this hobby, this one has me throwing in the towel, hanging my head in shame and admitting defeat [emoji22] Let me explain. A couple of years ago, we replaced our counter top with a quartz countertop from Cambria. Ever since I've always thought what a beautiful pens could make from that material. So finally my curiosity gave way and I ordered a couple small samples, pretty cheap actually, less than 5 dollars for a 3 x 3 inch sample. I had some cheap masonry drill bits, bought a rather inexpensive diamond blade that would fit my table saw. The quartz countertop is not as some people think a solid piece of quartz but rather crushed and powdered quartz and resin. So down the rabbit hole I went. Cut the samples, which are 3/4 inch thick into 3/4 inch blanks, that part went fine, they cut very easily with the diamond blade. Chucked one up and drilled through with masonry bits. Went okay but very slow, took probably 2 hours to get to the final hole size of 3/8. Glued in a painted tube and glued with epoxy that I added a little black dye to. Next day I squared it with my disc sander, again really slow but got it down. Turning it, now that's a whole nother ballgame. Ruined a carbide cutter in about 30 seconds. So I'm not pursuing this any further. My wife graciously pointed out, it's not a complete failure because otherwise I would have always wondered
if it would work. There may be something out there that would work, but I'm done with this idea. I'll post a couple of pictures. The slight roundness you see on the blank was done on the disc sander. I'm sticking to wood and the occasional acrylic.
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