From:
abknight@zzzzzz
Date:
Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:13:19 -0500 (CDT)
Subject:
Pitching. Cutting etc.
Tomas Lipps wrote:
Quoted text begins.each block received a final hand-tooled texture . this was called
"boasting" because each mason/stonecutter had his own distinctive and
discernible pattern.
End of quote.
Tomas, that's very good to know.
Do you know about "bumpers"? I believe bumpers largely
took over the task of boasting in the pneumatic age. Trow
and Holden told me stone cutters went on strike over the
introduction of their pneumatic bumper to the work place.
I believe at issue was the terrible amount of deadly dust
produced by the bumpers. The person at T and H said,
rather cynically that the bumpers "got too much work
done". But perhaps the workers were depressed and
discouraged to no longer be able to work a "boast", the
proud task having been taken by the machine.
No one has confirmed to me that they were called bumpers
because they made a bumpy surface but that is what I have
come to think (Trow and Holden will still make you a
"baby" bumper if you ask them). I wonder if you know if
the work of the bumper was known as boasting? Is the
machine texturing of today known as boasting? Looking at
tool catalogs it would seem to me that texturing today is
often done by a rotary machine.
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