Picked up our granite tiles today. In the shop was a custom tabletop made of Exotic Brazilian Granite. Color is "Louise Blue". I've been working with so many different types of marble & granite, and after seeing this I did more research. Amazing Slabs of material out there, but still haven't seen many to rival this.

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How you gonna put that onto of the scanner and scan it?? ;)

Texture time.

Beautiful!!!

You'll take a picture of it.....  and have a nice granite texture.....    That is a beautiful slab..

Wow! That rocks!

Attached Link: Corsica Stone Supply

That's an awesome slab. I've seen a lot of marble over years of building and I love working with stone.

Check out some of the Onyx slabs at the link. They have some marbles too, but nothing like that you showed.

EDIT - forgot to mention, they have awesome large aggregate granite slabs there.

Wood might be interesting too. I remember looking at exotic hardwoods like ecocobolo and others that polish beautifully. The trick is to make a seamless texture with it.

Attached Link: Hearne Hardwoods

Cream of the crop exotic hardwood flitches here. Very nice example gallery. The regular lumber is very good too (The "Inventory/Lumber Information" link at the top), lots of exotics there also, but not the really highly figured ones.

How much you suppose one slab costs?

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It varies outrageously. Slabs are usually sold by bid in an auction type format to cabinet makers, especially the top quality ones.
For finished use, the most expensive marble countertop I ever installed was a translucent green Cappadocian marble that cost $625 per linear foot. It wasn't in my house, I can promise you that :lol:
Granite is the most expensive, I believe, at least in the finished form, because it is so difficult to cut and work it.

Not familiar with Onyx, it might be more...or less than marble.

Know about wood from my guitar makign days. Had a very pretty flame maple jazzmaster with padouk neck and ebony fretboard the neck was an explorer neck too. I liked wiring odd configurations too. miss those days. I think I might make a new one when i get back to the states.

That's an amazing piece.  Thanks for the links.  I find there are so many premade textures available online on company websites.  
I made a kitchen scene recently that didn't need complete 3d detail.  Everything came from company websites.  Flooring, light fixtures, switches, appliances.  Even a 2d car seen thru the window.  The only difficulty was with the differing resolution of the textures.  

I'll organize and post the links I used and the picture. 

*translucent green Cappadocian marble that cost $625 per linear foot.

*Wow that is a hefty price if you are going to do a floor... lol..    If I understand what a linear per foot cost means...   one sq foot is $625.00 X 2 right?  Then a 3 sq foot table would be $3,750.00.

*Know about wood from my guitar makign days. Had a very pretty flame maple jazzmaster with padouk neck and ebony fretboard the neck was an explorer neck too.

*I didn't know you were a guitar maker Dann-O. that a very nice skill....

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Well for the most part just sort of put them together. I ordered wood cut for it so I had the body and neck cut so not really much of s skill. I did the electronics and sand and finish. Electronics wise they had a lot going on I put in special tone cucuits and phase switches and notch filters etc. Here is a place that will do the wood for you. I used to live nearby and just drive down and comb thru the stock and pick things out back when they were not on the internet. Aslo the left over bodies were much cheaper then. 1/4 price nto a 10% discount.

I saw the site...   tell me, can you order a guitar body and electronics from a place like your link and truly make a good guitar out of it...   I mean really good guitar... 

I use to play in a band but never heard of ordering your own parts and putting together your self a good 'base' together.... like a kit.....   That real kool...

There used to be a place in Cumbria called "Kirkstone Galleries" it was a furniture (and other stuff) shop and cafe, and it used green slate for their fabulous table tops.

I saw the most wonderful table with a slab of this green picture slate for the top and black wrought iron for the legs, it was glorious!  If I'd had a camera at the time I'd have captured it, or £800 to buy it... shrug.