I'm a german stone mason who, to be honest, never wanted to be one. As a kid I always remembered my dad in his workshop standing at the big stone saw, all in rubber boots and rubber apron and having the stress of organizing all the work processes for his workers besides. That was all I knew. After I finished school I didn't really know, what to do but I found a stone craft company that worked on old churches and where the apprentices learned how to use a chisel and a mallet on a piece of sandstone to create such things as cornics. That was a completely other and way more traditional side of stone masonery I saw and I did my apprenticeship there. Now that I'm back in my father's workshop to support him, he had two heart attacks a few weeks ago.week. He's back from hospital and mostly fine but he is not able to work. I'm doing my best to keep the company up at the moment and I can't say it isn't hard but I'm doing it for my father and I'm doing it with a lot of love for the craft.
Jay Shriver, I disagree with you on that, this is exactly how they did it, the Egyptians were so smart they did not have to be so precise around the edges of each block.
The Egyptian stone masons actually were very precise (Tolerances measured in millimeters)as were the Inca and Azteca and Peruvians. It stings our pride that compared to people from 2000-3000 BCE, only machines cut so precise anymore. The Egyptians actually cut much harder stone than in this video: such as granite, diorite, schist and basalt brought in from hundreds of miles away a feat all in it's self. Considering they only had bronze tools it is actually even more amazing as the rock they cut wast harder than the metal tools they had on hand.
@@kendallrussell5195 the vast majority of the pyramid at giza is limestone mined 100m away, the inner blocks aren't accurately trimmed and they only had copper, not bronze. The work is still astonishing, and the granite boxes etc are masterpieces.
