First I want to thank Ron at theimage1.com for his great pictures and reports from Quartzite.
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One of his great photos shows dramatically the difference one can get when slicing slabs for Cabbing or Pendants out of the same stone/rock. As marked on the picture, the top slab was cut along the seam of the rock, where the second picture was cut across or thru the seam. Two dramatic different results and patterns from the same rock.
So as you can see, before placing that stone/rock on the cutting saw, look it over carefully and try, if possible, to determine where the seam is, if one present, and then cut depending on what kind of pattern you want from that particular piece of material. Chances are, it won't look like the same material when finished. And yes, the figures marked on the stones in the picture, is the cost on those two slab slices.
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Picture from Ron, at theimage1.com.
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