The Tomahawk Stone Splitter, which is being marketed and distributed by Braxton-Bragg, LLC splits measured sections of leftover stone slab material. These precision pieces can be stacked, laid or clad with mortar, creating a stunning chiseled wall, or laid out flat to produce remarkable flooring and paving.
Anyways, the Tomahawk Stone Splitter is designed to run on 120 volt power, and be light enough that one guy can maneuver it around in his shop, since it weighs around 250 pounds. The Tomahawk sells for under $6,000 and, as fore mentioned, can be purchased through Braxton-Bragg. This machine was on display in the Braxton-Bragg booth, and made ...
To reap some profitable rewards for your unusable scrap, Braxton-Bragg offers a machine called the Tomahawk Stone Splitter, which is designed to break scrap into uniform length tiles. This versatile tool is easy to use, moderately priced and a necessity to any small shop with scrap overflow. Altogether, over 100 shapes and sizes can be produced ...
One business taking these steps is Waste to Value, producer of the Tomahawk Stone Splitter, which meets LEED requirements by reclaiming otherwise wasted building materials. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a rating system for "green" construction, established in 1998, which created the Green Building Rating System. ...
With a couple of simple displays in their showroom, and a couple of leading questions about possible uses for the client’s scrap material, the team at Counter Solutions is using the Tomahawk Stone Splitter 4-6 times per month, creating $500-$1200 in profit– pure profit!
The 2-day event promises to be filled with tons of money making ideas. A hands-on demonstration of the Tomahawk Stone Splitter and a tour of Stone World Tennessee will be included. There will be live demonstrations on various types of products produced by the Tomahawk. Split Stone Panels, easy templating methods and advanced installation ...
In 2011, Mulder developed and, along with BB Industries, introduced the Tomahawk Stone Splitter to stone companies in the USA, still in use by many stone companies, today. In everything Mulder builds, he says he always applies the golden rule of design: keep it simple. Make it durable, inexpensive to fabricate and easy to operate.
This stunning combination of split-face granite and glass mosaic tile is made easy and possible with the Tomahawk Stone Splitter, which will turn your scrap granite into recycled gold. Look for a story next month on making your own split-face creations with the Tomahawk.
Louwrens Mulder is the inventor of the Tomahawk Stone Splitter marketed and sold by Braxton-Bragg and a proponent of recycling at every level, particularly in fabrication shops here in America. Using diamond wire saws–and never using explosives of any type since the quarries opened to extract blocks–helps to achieve these quality and ...
Stone Restoration and Maintenance Corner: Floor Restoration Products and Their Use. Bob Murrell M3 Technologies Photos by Bob Murrell. The most common technical support calls I receive involve instruction on what product to use for a specific application and how to use it. As you probably know from reading any of my articles across the years ...
Joel Davis Special Contributor. Slippery Rock’s New Year’s resolution is to continue providing the stone industry with in-depth reviews on ever better, faster, and more economical products We interviewed Braxton-Bragg Product Manager Steve Bussell to find and showcase the Top Ten Tools for 2014. We recommend the following new and unique tools, and some tried and trusted ones, guaranteed to ...
Stone Restoration and Maintenance Corner: Adapters- The Must-Have Accessories. Bob Murrell M3 Technologies Photos by Bob Murrell. As restoration and maintenance professionals, we will need a variety of accessories and adapters to complete our projects efficiently. We must have a full complement of pad drivers for our hand tools and floor ...
BB Industries has released a fabricator-dedicated catalog for 2025 with significant changes to its decades-old format. With an extensive selection of new tools and vendors, products and section headers are also given in Spanish, making BB Industries a user-friendly experience with the same complete, one-stop selection of products for countertop shops and stone and tile fabricators and installers.
The Richmond area was in a hot and heavy building boom, and the stone trade was wide open. “Artistic Stone Design was established in 2000 by a good friend of mine, Tom Del Monaco,” explained Jon Rathke, Owner of Artistic Stone Design since 2010.
Rocky Mountain Stone in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Solid Tops in Easaton, Maryland have both developed innovative processes and uses for turning their granite scrap into a new, viable finished products. "With the waste we create from cutting custom granite kitchen countertops, we created a unique new product to use as paving stones," says ...
The stone's durability no doubt was responsible for its use as a building material by the Plateau's settlers for foundations and chimneys, and was probably a major factor in the decision to erect the Cumberland County Courthouse out of Crab Orchard Stone in 1905. The city also made extensive use of the stone in constructing sidewalks and ...
Fabricators can get miters right the first time using the newest addition to Braxton-Bragg’s high-end tooling line: the Talon Miter Cut Quartz, Granite, and Marble Bridge Saw Blades.
Hve you ever thought about how those old stone churches, so much a part of Portland’s identity, were built? Walking with my father, the stonecutter, gave me an interesting insight back in 1965. Thirty years ago when I was designing our company logo, I sketched a derrick lifting a mill block from a granite batholith and titled the company, “Joseph Conrad, Stonecutter,” doubting that ...
Sarah Rohr Special Contributor. The Slippery Rock Gazette presents a conversation with Aaron Crowley of Crowley’s Granite Concepts and Fabricator’s Friend. Aaron is a long-time contributor to the Slippery Rock, an inventor of stone fabrication gear and services like the RemnantLocator.com. “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they ...
It is under this unified management team that Omni Cubed has successfully launched seven major product lines consisting of over 40 product models of lamination clamps, countertop strengtheners, seam setters, installation carts, carry clamps, T-31 machines, and stone refinishing tools, and to this day continues to offer fabricator-friendly ...