[meteorite-list] The big red grinder and the meteorite pie ***apology

[David Freeman]

Dear List;
I wrote a very satirical post yesterday about cutting and grinding your 
meteorite and making a pie.
PLEASE do not take any of this literally. Meteorites are much to 
valuable to be fooling around with in this fashion.
I have owned over half a dozen  diamond blade saws in the past ten years 
and own three today.
I probably run my saws over 500 hours a year minimum.  I mostly cut 
stromatolite, jade, petrified wood, banded iron.  
I cut a gold basin once years ago. I used water and my favorite small 
saw.  I could see then that a meteorite, being so rare, would be forever 
altered by the saw, sometimes for the good and sometimes for the 
bad...perminently!  Fortunately, my cut turned out for the good but it 
could have went the other way very easily.
I do not cut meteorites today. I do cut meteorwrongs for hobby purposes.
I recommend anyone that wants to start cutting meteorites to start 
cutting Earth rocks for a while and then get a professional or very 
experienced meteorite cutter to tutor them individually about how to 
select the thin blade, the best methods.  For anyone to start out with a 
tile saw would be really a very poor judgment move in my opinion.  Even 
the lowly Nantan or rusty Campo deserves better than a tile saw. My 
fossil fish supplier used a tile saw for rough cutting fish plates. That 
would be the extent of what a tile saw would be good for, not meteorites 
or other rocks.
When I found my "Rock Springs" meteorite, did I cut my child:  nope!  I 
sent it to a professional to do the slice for science cut.
Please, do not play around with sawing up meteorites, even NWA's until 
you have practiced/perfected cutting on terrestrial rocks, and only cut 
meteorites as an apprentice under an experienced person who knows what 
they are doing.
I am sorry for posting the satire about the tile saw and 
grinders....because there are those that don't have any common sence and 
MAY try it after all.  PS:  if you do, be sure to use chocolate pudding 
and the frozen pie shells, they taste better!
Dave Freeman
(no, I won't cut your meteorite)