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A stonemason's hammer, also known as a brick hammer, has one flat traditional face and a short or long chisel-shaped blade. [1] It can thus be used to chip off edges or small pieces of stone, cut brick or a concrete masonry unit, without using a separate chisel. The chisel blade can also be used to rapidly cut bricks or cinder blocks.
A toothed stone chisel, used by stone sculptors and stonemasons Stone chisels are used to carve or cut stone, bricks or concrete slabs. To cut, as opposed to carve, a brick bolster is used; this has a wide, flat blade that is tapped along the cut line to produce a groove, then hit hard in the centre to crack the stone.
A lewis (sometimes called a lewisson) is one of a category of lifting devices used by stonemasons to lift large stones into place with a crane, chain block, or winch. It is inserted into a specially prepared hole, or seating, in the top of a stone, preferably above its centre of mass.
Drove chisel circa 1919. A drove chisel is a tool used by stonemasons for smoothing off roughly finished stones. When first cut from the quarry, stones are frequently have large grooves, droves, left from the splitting process. The droving chisel is used for the next stage, making the surface of the stone flat enough to use.
Stonemason dressing stone on a fountain with pneumatic tools. Stonemasons use a wide variety of tools to handle and shape stone blocks and slabs into finished articles. The basic tools for shaping the stone are a mallet, chisels, and a metal straight edge. With these one can make a flat surface – the basis of all stonemasonry.
There are three types of marks used by stonemasons. [1] Banker marks were made on stones before they were sent to be used by the walling masons. These marks served to identify the banker mason who had prepared the stones to their paymaster. This system was employed only when the stone was paid for by measure, rather than by time worked.
Chisels (1 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Stonemasonry tools" ... Stonemason's hammer; Straightedge This page was last edited on 1 April 2013, at 00:29 (UTC). Text is ...
Stonemasons' trade unions (12 P) T. Stonemasonry tools (1 C, 14 P) Pages in category "Stonemasonry" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.