-------- In message <0f9a9acc-4cdf-780f-e633-616262264...@earthlink.net>, jimlux writes:
>> [1] Surprising to me is that modern dentists are highly kitted for >> CNC-ing very hard ceramic materials at high precision. > >But, small "tooth sized" pieces - how big is your crystal. Well, they appearantly make a mouth-full at a time, so that is covered... I don't think the dentist machines are precise enough though, as I understood it, the state-of-the-art stuff has built in laser-interferrometers etc. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.