Patent ID: 7226517

Claim:
A method of resurfacing a substrate with a natural stone, the method comprising: releasably attaching a plurality of templating jigs to an edge of the substrate, each of the plurality of templating jigs comprising an upwardly extending flange; placing a plurality of templating strips on a top surface of the substrate and against respective ones of the upwardly extending flanges to form a template sized to cut a first piece of the natural stone for resurfacing the top surface of the substrate; removing the template from the top surface of the substrate; overlaying the template on the natural stone; cutting the first piece of natural stone based on an outside dimension of the template; cutting an edge band of natural stone sized to resurface the edge of the substrate; cutting a bevel in an edge along a length of the first piece of natural stone; cutting a bevel in an edge along a length of the edge band of natural stone; adjoining the first piece of natural stone and the edge band of natural stone to form a replacement piece, the first piece of natural stone and the edge band of natural stone adjoined along their respective beveled edges to form a substantially right angle there between having an inside edge; applying a fiberglass cloth to the inside edge; and adhesively joining the replacement piece to the top surface and the edge of the substrate.