Rock crushers for inlay- powered and manual

Great tool. I love the home made tools (that work), I’ve made a few my self.

Nice pictures!

I’ve been using crushed rock, and other things, for inlays for several years. I use a steel pipe mortar and pestle much like you have pictured to crush small stones. I usually use native Kentucky stones and minerals. Recently, I started experimenting with crushed Kentucky anthracite coal mixed with brass shavings.

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a blog on the rest of that would be nice

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What the hell is THIS all about?????

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Jim:

I was wondering the same thing. What do you do with the Finished Product? Put it in a “Finished Woodworking Project”? You have a Blog on this thing? So. Where is it?

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Thank you for posting this Andy! Now I get it! :)

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LOL Andy uses the crusher to make the inlays for his beautiful tables and serving trays. :)

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Thank you rivergirl. I’ll have to have a look at some of his Projects.

EDIT: I just had a look. You’re right. They are Very Beautiful!! Love to own one of those!!!!

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Thanks 4 sharing Andy.

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Sorry about the confusion folks- I can’t seem to link the pics, so I posted them here. Here’s the BLOG address: http://lumberjocks.com/rusticandy/blog

-- rustic andy

The mortar and pestle pipes are just run by hand or do you hit the pestle pipe with a hammer? How long does that take to crush the rock into a size you need?

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Sorry, but it looks like B.S. to me.

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I don’t want to be skeptical, but this seems like a process that you are going to have to tell us all a lot more about. Sort of like telling a kid he can have a piece of candy, but he’ll have to make his own if he can find a recipe. You do excellent beautiful projects incorporating whatrever this is all about. Tell us more. Why not use sand, already crushed?
Jack

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Jackass, its really hard to use your LJ name without sounding like I’m fllaming you! I almost started with “Great question Jackass!” No, that won’t work… but I digress….

Anyway, to the one known as the male member of the equine species, great question! Sand is silica, are often quite hard and they tear up sandpaper, also, colored sand IMHO set in resin lookis exactly like, well like colored sand in plastic. Its just easier on my own head and my eye if I am using naturally colored materials. They look, well ,more natural to me anyway.

I’ll bet someone can do wonders with sand and resin!

heres the blog link explaining the process- http://lumberjocks.com/rusticandy/blog

my computer ignorance kept me from posting them togther- sorry!

-- rustic andy

The hand mortar is two pieces, (first two pics) you drop a few oz of crushable minerals/rocks into the 2” pipe w/ nipple, then drop the other nipple end, with the collar, and screw it down a few turns onto the threads. Then you slide them together, twisting them also grings/crushes the material well, and the collar keeps most of the material from flying out. Its slow, but effective. I can work 4 oz of material down in about 5 minutes. I use screens to sort the material, and then reinsert the material that is too big.

Regarding the mini jaw crusher- it was sold to me for $50 w/out the motor by a local rock hound. Here’s a link to how it works, only on a much smaller scale.

http://www.usedjawcrushers.com/

-- rustic andy