Basalt Object

[abknight@zzzzzz]

Is everybody tired of "How'd they do this"?  If your are
or you don't like basalt click to the next message.

Hey!  How'd they do this?

http://www.a-hettinger.de/obje066d.html

As regards the last "How did they do this", thank you for
your heartfelt respsonse.  I think Bill really went beside
himself to help me out!    I appreciate that.  Bob
Hackett, your diction is priceless.  I smell the salt, am
deafened by the concussion, and am numbed from hammering.
And that's just from reading about you're activities.
Simon, maybe you have only pointed out the obvious to the
obtuse, but I just was thinking wrong and couldn't see it.
  Now that I look closely it seems the whole sculpture is
carved to a finish with a point!  It's got all the
cross-hatched furrows and ridges or points, really.  Great
gleaming finish.  George, thank you for the good humoured
help as usual.  You are my masters.  Simon, I am ashamed
of my impertinence to you!

Did anyone every get through the runes and question marks
to run the first sequence of the abstract bell sculpture.
It shows very clearly what is also shown in the head
sequence and that is these long splitting rods.  Any
guesses about those?  Do they create a wider spread
splitting force within the stone away from the surface
where pieces might pop off  and the larger split fail?  I
love the team work, youth beside old age.  I image the
youth are getting quite an apprenticeship and will be well
equipped to establish themselves as artists in their own
rights.  At the last picture there is snow on the ground.
They have finished just in time.  They might well have
been chilly for the water polishing.  I also like the
wooly white gloves they wear for anti-vibration protection
and the fore-arm prophylactics for skin protection against
the rough stone (the head sculptor).  Anybody notice
anything else?

I've gone on to discover a super web site of super
sculptor should you wish to enjoy

http://www.h2.dion.ne.jp/~okamotoa/e/top_e.html

Bill