Trade supply
Diamond tooling, abrasives and stone care
Consumables in the order a job actually uses them, from the first aggressive cut through to the sealer that goes on last.
Categories
Each category explains what the equipment does, how to choose within it, and what it will not do.
A restoration sequence runs from metal bond diamonds that cut hard and leave a coarse surface, through resin stages that refine it, to polishing and finally sealing. Each stage exists to correct what the previous one left behind.
The most expensive tooling errors are not brand choices. They are running a bond that fights the hardness of the stone, skipping a grit and chasing the scratches later, or expecting a sealer to fix a finish underneath it. These pages are organised around those decisions.
Metal bond diamonds
Aggressive metal-matrix diamond tooling for the first cutting stages: levelling, lippage removal and coating removal.
Resin bond diamonds
Resin-matrix diamond abrasives for refining after grinding and carrying the surface through to a honed or polished finish.
Grinding tools
Cup wheels, edge tooling and small-diameter abrasives for perimeters, stairs, vertical surfaces and detail work.
Polishing pads
Final-stage pads that develop gloss on stone already honed to a consistent surface, including marble-specific tooling.
Polishing powders
Crystallising and abrasive powders that develop gloss on calcite stone through combined mechanical and chemical action.
Compounds
Liquid and paste compounds for polishing, maintaining and hardening stone surfaces between full restoration cycles.
Sealers & treatments
Impregnating sealers, surface treatments and enhancers, and an honest account of what sealing does and does not prevent.
Consumables
Cleaners, adhesives, colour-matched fillers, blades, masking and the supplies a restoration crew reorders routinely.
Not sure which stage you are missing?
Describe the stone, the machine you run and the finish you are trying to reach. Most tooling problems turn out to be a gap in the sequence rather than the wrong brand.