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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BillM" data-source="post: 3916827" data-attributes="member: 45785"><p>Somewhere here I have a piece of marble slab, and it's light, but easily damaged. Not nearly as large, either. I originally got it for leatherwork, and still have it though I've not done much leatherworking in the past couple of decades. Problem is that it's way too small to do layout for metalworking. Not that I've used my surface plate yet. Until this past May I was using the larger plates at school when I needed one. Also have a 12x12 granite tile, about 3/8" thick. Used to have two of them, but had one slide off the shelf when I was moving the shelving unit and lost about a third of it... Advantage to the bigger plates is they're harder to move accidentally. Not that I expect they wouldn't also break if you dropped them far enough. I just don't care to test it just yet!</p></blockquote><p></p>