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2. Chisel - Wikipedia

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   A chisel is a wedged hand tool with a characteristically shaped cutting edge on the end of its blade, for carving or cutting a hard material (e.g. wood, stone, or metal). The tool can be used by hand, struck with a mallet , or applied with mechanical power . [ 1 ]

3. Stone carving - Wikipedia

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   Tools for rough shaping of stone, to form a block the size needed for the carving. These include feathers and wedges and pitching tools. Chisels for cutting - such as lettering chisels, points, pitching tools, and claw chisels. Chisels, in turn, may be handheld and hammered or pneumatic powered.

4. Air hammer (fabrication) - Wikipedia

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   An air hammer, also known as an air chisel, is a pneumatic hand tool used to carve in stone, and to break or cut metal objects apart. It is designed to accept different tools depending on the required function.

5. Stonemasonry - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. Stonemason's hammer - Wikipedia

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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.

7. Marble sculpture - Wikipedia

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   The stone carver generally uses a shallower stroke at this point in the process. Eventually, the sculptor has changed the stone from a rough block into the general shape of the finished statue. Tools called rasps and rifflers are then used to enhance the shape into its final form. A rasp is a flat, steel tool with a coarse surface. The sculptor ...