My introduction to building a stone wall, like beginnings in so many ... to produce any stonemasons at all (and the only general masonry contractor who’d talk to me recommended that we tear ...

Brick chisels should not be used for cutting stone, as they will quickly lose their edge. Some masonry chisels are designed for cutting soft stone, while others will stand up to harder use.

When you're carving a church out of the mountainside ... And so we were able to conserve this tiny bit of stone, which is, in stone masonry terms, it's crazy. But you have to do that in this ...

Masonry drill bits are made from tungsten ... The cylinder cuts out a "plug" of stone rather than carving out a hole like ...

Or perhaps there were visits from Peruvians who brought the sweet potato and their skilled understanding of stone masonry with them ... of 9,000 by 1550. Moai carving and transport were in ...

After a gentle nudge from his mum, Richard found his passion for stone carving and swiftly decided to create his own business. His mentor Louis Francis thinks he has huge potential but needs to ...

When his father passed away in 2017, Johnson took some of his dad’s carving tools to his home in Mead. Soon he was tinkering with stone carving and sharing what he learned with his students in ...

Electrician Jan wants to swap his day job for a stone-carving career. After a 30-year break, a period of ill health led to him rediscovering his love of the craft. Mentor Louis thinks Jan is ...

study reveals 'Quite enigmatic': Rare stone carving of Assyrian king surrounded by gods discovered in Iraq Now, scientists with Historic Environment Scotland, a public body that takes care of the ...