Anyone ever worked with Swisspearl

[bill_l]

Has anyone ever heard of or worked with a material called Swisspearl?

Bill

[Doug Smith]

Hello Bill,

I have heard of Swiss Pear. This material is a melamine from Roseburg. I received the sheets I used from the Wurth Group in Raleigh NC. They did say that they were not going to stock it at this branch anymore.

Wurth Group:
http://www.wurthwoodgroup.com/locations.html

Roseburg:
http://roseburg.com/cgi-bin/s-mart.pl?command=search&searchstring=swiss%20pear

I hope this provides some help,

Doug

[bleeth]

Is this what you are talking about:

http://www.swisspearl.com/products-and-solutions/

[bill_l]

Dave,

Tha'ts exactly what I was referring to.

Bill

[bleeth]

From their literature it appears that it is similar to hardibacker in composition. In that case you are simply dealing with cement board. Score and snap for straight cuts and if you have to saw it a diamond coated blade (Like a tile cutter) is pretty much it. Being cement, I don't imagine it would be practical to do much on the bot to it but I guess if it is not too dense one might carve it ike limestone or marble.