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[finegemdesigns]

Once you pay for a grabber there's no more money you need to spend.

No extra money for glue and no more money for sticks and blocks of wood.

Grabbers are cheaper and also less messy.

As far as running all the way up to the block that is only an advantage if you need to get a final slab that is less than 1/4 inch thick. A slab grabber properly used and aligned works well to make slabs. It's not the equipment's fault if you get greedy and cut your screw heads off because you cut too close.

Lastly in most cases you don't even need to take the grabber out of the vise using my type. You can unscrew the top and insert another end cut so yet another time saver.

[phrankhansen]

Thanks for all the great ideas. I only have a tile saw and I'm really looking for how to get the first flat cut on a rock so that I can have a flat side on the bed of the sliding table. I tried a piece of plywood with  4 carriage bolts through that and then 2 1x4's, each with 2 bolts and wing nuts. Like I saw somewhere on the forum. It works ok fine for large rocks, but poorly with small rocks, especially irregularly shaped small rocks. Sounds like JB weld is the next thing to true. You all are great to share.  Thanks