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PRODUCT SHOWCASE: Alicia Tapp Designs

Sunday, June 26th, 2005

A marble backsplash mural or wall display makes the perfect complement for antiques, beautiful china,  flea market finds, vintage furnishings, garage sales, ephemera, trade show collections, or bottles of your favorite wine or brew.

The images are baked into the marble so the quality of the marble with its shading, nicks, crannies and rounded edges become part of the old world, vintage and European effect

Perfume Label Art, dated from 1894 - 1905 on Tumbled Marble Tiles, an unusual wall decor for the bath, dressing room, powder room, spa, country club. Alternate plain botticino tumbled marble tiles, or add a few tiles onto each wall. An important trend in decorating is chic and shabby. Perfume labels on tiles would be an important accessory to this theme

Alternate wine label images on tumbled marble tiles to create a wine collectors dream environment.

Looking for something different?  Vintage Veggie, fruit or flower seed packets transferred onto marble for a kitchen backsplash, pantry or garden room.

Crazy about pets? Vintage cat and dog food can labels on tiles will complete your pets Bark Avenue suite.

A dressing area with old hotel and airline tiles randomly placed on a marble wall as a backdrop for your favorite vintage Louis Vuitton trunk– ooh la la

There are no limits to your imagination and collection . 

Alicia Tapp

1-888-786-8823

Visit her site at: www.aliciatappdesigns.com

editors note:

I saw some of these tile when I was in Las Vegas last year…they are cool! If you get a client that wants something the neigbors don't have….Alicia can hook them up!

Mark

Tips For the Trades: SolidSurface Magazine

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

Heya all! I just got my subscription to this publication. It is outstanding and has good information for fabricators!

The subscription $25 clams per year…a good investment!

Link:

www.solidsurfacemagazine.com

Check it out…they also have a newsletter.

PRODUCT SHOWCASE: Dry Core Bits

Monday, June 6th, 2005

Our friends from Stone Pro would like us to take a look at these bits.

Editors Note: We set up this portion of the blog to allow makers and suppliers of equipment and supplies to showcase thier products. This is a free service. www.stoneadvice.com does not endorse these products specifically, nor have we tested them.

PRODUCT REVIEW: MAKITA CENTER WATER FEED POLISHER

Sunday, June 5th, 2005

The Makita pw5001c

This is an electric wet polisher. I purchased two of these a few months ago. It has some pros and cons. The pros are:

1. Makita grinders last forever

2. Pretty rugid

3. You don't get shocked like you will with other brands.

The cons are:

1. A little bulky

2. The GFI switches don't last long.

3. The outside housing is plastic (but it has an aluminum housing under the plastic)

I give this product 3 diamonds (out of 5)

Thanks,

Jim Marshall

The Beveled Edge Marble & Granite Inc.

Westminster, Maryland

PRODUCT REVIEW: GORILLA GRIP

Sunday, June 5th, 2005



If you have not yet bought a Gorilla Clamp you need to do so, this thing is AWESOME! We were called out to a job that was installed by another company 9 years ago, the seams were terrible. Lippage from 1/16 to 1/8, bowed slabs and it was 3cm Violetta (AKA kryptonite). I bought this clamp specifically for this job. We cut the polyester resin out of the seams, cut the caulk and went to town on the lippage. It took an average of 2 minutes to get these seams leveled out. We were afraid we would have to remove and reinstall these tops, not with this baby. Well worth the expense. My installers use this for their seams and we have cut down the time jerking seams around and re-shimming.

I give this product 5 diamonds (out of five)

Brian Briggs

Granite Guys, Inc.

editors note: I am ordering one next week!…mark