As a wholesale distributor of natural stone, Portland Stone Ware has the ability to custom fabricate stone into finish accents, stone caps, landscape features, and other creative projects. Historically, stone has been used as mantles, steps, and hearths. PSW’s stone estimators are equipped with the latest developments and trends of fabrications that allow our stone fabricators to cut and customize stone into modern stone elements.
The quality of our stone products, expert craftsmanship and state-of-the-art technology has always been our driving force to best serve lumberyard and masonry retailers. Through sketches, CAD drawings and templates, you will be able to watch your project come to life. Below you will find stone fabrication materials and techniques, as well as guidelines for submitting a quote. Please reach out to us directly if you have any questions.
Stone Fabrication Material
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Edge Treatments
Pencil – A penciled edge resembles the end of a pencil eraser with a slight radius.
Chamfered – A chamfered edge is 45 ° cut into the edge of the stone. The deeper the cut, the wider the bevel face is.
Ease – This edge treatment is very common and offers a clean and simple look. Easing an edge offers a square flat face with the sharp edge on top rounded slightly. Sometimes, the eased edge is rounded enough to be called a quarter round edge.
Full or Half Bull-nose – The full bull-nose offers perhaps the most contemporary look. A side view of full bull-nose shows the shape of a half circle. The full bull-nose is gentle on the body and has no edges to chip. The half bull-nose edge can also be called the round-over because instead of being squared off, it is rounded over.
Rock Face – A Rock Faced edge finish is produced by striking the stone surface with a chisel leaving a rough natural edge finish.
Thermal – The thermal finish is produced by applying a high-temperature torch to the surface of the stone leaving a rough-textured finish.
Request for quotation
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All Request For Quotation’s (RFQ’s) are required to be in electronic format.
If you’re a property owner or installer, please contact your local retailer (lumber or masonry yard) – or we’d be happy to suggest a retailer near you.
If you’re a customer of ours, please submit your request for a quote and we will be in touch. You have the option to complete the Request For Quotation Form below OR click here to download, fill out and email us the printable version at [email protected].
Please include all necessary information on request (i.e. material: width, length and thickness, finish and edge treatment). In order to accurately quote this project; please list material, piece count, width x length x thickness (all in inches), top finish and edge finish, example: 1 PIECE BROWN WAVE, 42”x95”x2” THERMAL TOP, ROCKED 1 LONG 2 SHORT
Plywood, luan or durable plastic templates require job name, material, thickness, edge treatments and finishes as well as your company name, contact name, and contact information. All templates will be cut to the finished size of the template. Templates made out of other materials including tar paper or cardboard are not acceptable. Additional fees will apply to reconstruct sub-standard templates.