[Sca-cooks] Marble slabs

[chirhart_1]

Hi,sorry to post back so late but have been helping Baron tamure set up pens
for his peacoks. On the subject: soapstones a marvill! besides useing it to
cast with ithas beenused for stoves ,counter tops sinks and old stile ice
boxs and statuary.Countertops made from them are durable ,waterproof  and
heat proof . Chirhart
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicolas Steenhout" <vavroom at bmee.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Marble slabs


> At 07:51 AM 9/28/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >Yes indeed I would go with the granite.But what would be more excellent
> >would be to use soapstone.
>
> Soapstone??????????
>
> Chirart, I'd love to hear the logic behind that.  I happen to do a fair
> amount of carving on soap stone, and it seems to me that that stone is
> entirely too soft and brittle for this kind of use.  Of course, I've been
> proven wrong in the past :-)
>
> Muiredach mac Loloig
> Rokkehealden Shire
> aka
> Nicolas Steenhout
> "You must deal with me as I think of myself" J. Hockenberry
>
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