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Bush hammer or pneumatic point

Stone Conversations : Archive 7 : Message 00173

From: Norman Watts <Norman_Watts@zzzzzzz>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:39:23 -0400
Subject: Bush hammer or pneumatic point

On Oct 27, 2004, at 10:15 AM, Disbrow Consulting wrote:

Quoted text begins.I am going to start work in the next couple of weeks on an article
about
stardrills and featherwedges for splitting/cutting boulders.
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Craig,

Several times in the past you have talked about hard facing of tools.
This is the first time I've been able to guess, from the context, just
what this means. Would you pls say a bit more about this process?

Also, looking at some of the Japanese sculpture Bill has been talking
about recently I see no marks showing how the splitting was done. Was
the splitting off always arranged so as to remove all evidence of the
previous splitting?

http://www.ukishima.net/files/project/project.e/project.e.LOIS.html

BTW, I think this thing is totally awesome and wish I had made it! How
in the hell did they polish the inside like that?

n


Norman Watts, Ph. D.
National Institutes of Health
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Bethesda, MD 20892-8025
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