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Stone Conversations : Archive 2 : Message 00284

From: Bill Brayman <meta@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 08:49:24 -0800
Subject: tool suggestions

At 12:06 PM +0000 3/4/02, Laurie wrote:

Quoted text begins.thanks tracy, good point. at last, a message about hand carving - after
weeks of technical messages about acids and machine tools, someone who is
close to the stone.
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I work with granite and basalt alot and some very hard
alaskan marble. Power tools let me get into the stone. I
always handsand at some point and I usually use hand
chisels to break away pieces. Without the machines
though, the stone would forever look like a boulder. You
may be surprised how tender one can be with a wailing
angle grinder!

Bill

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