Presawing

When carving a sculpture out of a block of stone it will be obvious that a lot of stone, will have to be removed. Just removing that stone is not too complicated, and with the right tools that can go very quickly . The point is just to know where it needs to be removed, and usually there is a lot of reduce all the measuring involved (which happens to be not my favorite activity) and that takes the most time.

Nowadays there are of course modern means for that , and I happen to own one, a machine that quite precisely cuts a lot of the shape of the sculpture out of a block of stone.

For my brick layer out of dolomite I have also used this machine, and I must say, already, after just one round of precutting in the rough, the shape begins to take shape. When the diamond cutting is completed, the carving can begin.

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