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Building
Stone
Q U A R R I E D S T O N E
Builders or stretchers are
the staple of stone work. Everything depends upon the bond to the simple
building blocks. They come in all shapes and sizes. From primitive to axe
flattened. Pitch faced to sawn. The more primitive pieces are cut from the
quarry and roughly shaped with a hammer then laid up in the wall. Many of
the buildings here were quarried and then axed in to a plane or true.
Basically hewn while in its “green” condition and then laid up. Another
style of facing is the pitch faced or pillow faced meaning that the blocks
were quarried and then with a pitching tool (a specific chisel) worked in
to true with a pillowed face remaining.
“A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works
with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works
with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.”
~ Louis Nizer |
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