cleaning marble and granite

Grinding:
Is the second stage in securing a flawless surface. This stage will remove all scratches from any delipped surface. 28x13= $364

Honing:
 Is the third and sometimes the last stage. At the honed stage, the surface is 65% scratch free. The surface will have a slight reflection and appear clean and aged. 28x10=$280

Polishing:
 Is the final stage which leaves the surface with reflective characteristics. 28x8 = $224

Impregnators:
 Commonly known as sealers. This is the first stage in preserving your investment (should occur every six to eight months). 28x5 = $140

Decorative seam:
a clever way to disguise a crack, chip, hole or seam. 1x470 = $470

Total: $1478
Time: One man day.

This toy is a joke.
It will hurt you when it comes time to work close to the back splash and around the faucets, the amount of over spay will cause you to tape up most of the work area,  3 pads per step, and when it comes time for polishing you will use more compound than you need.

For the cost of this one tool, you could have taken a class plus get all the tools that you need to do this type of job.

$1,200 for the tool plus pads is not a bad deal.
as far as the stone class you can view the information here
I hope I do not get ban for that link.

yep, every thing that you use in the class is yours to take home in you neat little tool kit. All the colors, glues, pads, backers, machines, razors, sealers, and books.
When you done with this class you no reason to buy any more tools for like a year.

Nice!!!! Sorry I just realized I hacked your thread on the polls.
Guess I better get at that green counter then for some pics. That's a great oppurtunity.

Have a good one. Mark

Cool. There's not many peeps in my area or in Ontario Canada for that matter who actually do restoration of natural stone. Sure there's plenty of fabricators out there but when it comes to when a custy calls looking for someone to come in the home and do a "proper" restoration, they are few and far between.
 Like I stated in a earlier post, I help a buddy in his fab shop quite a bit but I really want to be able to "hone" (no pun inteneded LOL) my polishing skills and my seams. I know the installs that we've done, the seams look horrible.
 My main business is tile and grout cleaning/restoration, regrouts ect. but while in the homes, there is usually marble, granite, travertine, etc. and I feel that I'm leaving money on the table/floor.
 Sure I could practice in the fab shop with polishing but my buddy is so old school that there's not a whole lot that I can learn/benefit from it. He's a great fab guy but when it comes to polishing, he's not up on the latest products nor procedures out there. This is where I feel a course such as your would benefit me, and the custy, the most. After all, I don't want to go in to a custy's home and end up buying thier $6,000 counter/floor. LOL

Have a good one. Mark

Well, I'm gonna call the custy in the morning and let her know it's gonna ba a $1,400 touch. I sure hope I can get those knife marks out without compramising the flatness of the counter