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How do I get a consistent colour across a whole order?

Order from one block, and grade it before cutting. Colour in this stone varies across a bed and across a block, and the only way to hold a consistent tone across a surface is to choose the slabs for it, in the same block, before anything is cut.
A row of roughly six squared stone blocks standing in the sand at the foot of a quarry, each one cut flat and marked with a red number on its face. Behind them the quarry is cut into benches up the hillside, and wind turbines stand on the ridge above under a blue sky.
The cutting floor at the quarry, with the sawn blocks standing in the sand.
A quarry face with the beds marked up by hand in coloured paint. Reading from the top the marks say: 1 white vein, 2 elegant black, 3 grey wood grain, 4 coffee, 5 elegant black, 6 elegant black, 7 black and white, with the red outline around the overburden at the top of the face. Coffee Wood Marble is the fourth bed down.
The face of the quarry with the beds marked in the field.
Marble slabs standing upright on wooden frames inside the open back of a shipping container, strapped and ready to load
Slabs loaded for shipment.

Reference photographs. They show the material and the finish; they are not photographs of goods we made, and the colour on screen is not a colour-match.

The figures, and where each one comes from

The method What it costs What it gets
One block, graded and sequenced One block for the order Same figure and a close tone across the whole surface
Several blocks, hand-picked and sequenced More blocks, more sorting The figure runs from one to the next, the tone is close
Whatever is available Lowest price first Whatever the yard holds

Why it behaves the way it does

The difference between a wall and a set of panels is not the stone and it is not the polish — it is that somebody chose the slabs for it. That work happens at the saw, and it is why a wall ordered as a sequence costs more than the same wall ordered as stock.

What these figures are, and what they are not

We grade and sequence by hand, and we will send photographs of the actual slabs before cutting. We cannot promise a tone match between two separate orders weeks apart.

If you are specifying this

We have not published products against this question yet. Send us the process, thickness and quantity and we will quote it against what we can actually form, rather than against a catalogue.

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Order from one block, and grade it before cutting. Colour in this stone varies across a bed and across a block, and the only way to hold a consistent tone across a surface is to choose the slabs for it, in the same block, before anything is cut.

The figures

The method What it costs What it gets
One block, graded and sequenced One block for the order Same figure and a close tone across the whole surface
Several blocks, hand-picked and sequenced More blocks, more sorting The figure runs from one to the next, the tone is close
Whatever is available Lowest price first Whatever the yard holds

Why

The difference between a wall and a set of panels is not the stone and it is not the polish — it is that somebody chose the slabs for it. That work happens at the saw, and it is why a wall ordered as a sequence costs more than the same wall ordered as stock.

What these figures are, and what they are not

We grade and sequence by hand, and we will send photographs of the actual slabs before cutting. We cannot promise a tone match between two separate orders weeks apart.

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