Splitting Granite 

Ordered a Rebit 1.5" Tracer Chisel from Sweden last week. If my wife finds out how much it cost, she'll kill me. Going to wait until her new patio is completed, before I tell her.😜 Nice work splitting one of the hardest stones (both in hardness and skill required) to work with. It definitely helps to have the right tools for the job. I'm working with flagstone. Like cutting into butter, compared to granite. Loved this video. Thanks for sharing.

You do have the right tool , yes your technique is correct but this method is much more effective when you use a larger flat surface rock as your work table .By trying to split the rock on the grass the ground/soft soil is absorbing most of the energy exerted into splitting the rock .

I had never seen such effective methods. Thanks a lot.

Keep up with the good work and, thank you for sharing the websites from where to get good tools for stone work.

That was beautifully done.

I'm amazed with just how easy it is with the right tools I'm buying a few stone hammers & using this technique for my pond edging & waterfall :) awesome video thanks

What a lovely job... I love stones so much and working on them. And this video is so nice

Great video! Just perfect precision! Therapy for this guy 👍 subscribed

Good work mate,done a lot of stonework here in Aussie and some of our granite is crumbly and the other is as hard as hell but red and pink cream make the effort worthwhile,nothing looks better than stone.Take care stay safe....

Very nicely done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Hello Sir, I love your stone work and the videos, it's obvious that you have a passion for stone, as do I. When I was a young fellow I built myself a stone house. One caution I will point out is never to hit two hardened hammers together as they can shatter. I went to the hospital by doing that, a chunk went clear to the bone in my leg. The set hammer at 0:56 looks like it may be hard, the other tools look fine. Thanks for sharing your work. ....Doc

This is so helpful.

عمل دقيق ومحترف ومُتقَن لأن الحجر البازلتي يحتاج للدقه لشبه إنعدام عروق الرمل فيه شكرا لكم ولجهودكم ولقناتكم الرائعه من سوريه لكم كلّ الإحترام

The scary thing is that there are people on youtube right now claiming that this could only conceivably be done by aliens using lasers. They could literally just search "splitting granite with hand tools" but instead, they comment about "only power tools can cut granite, copper?! Must have been aliens with lazer beams shooting out of their spaceships. Yea, thats far more conceivable. Now to attack anyone who disagrees with me..."

*solid...YEAH, ASA ROCK!* -JC

one should always wear a mask when working with granite. Granite is somewhat radioactive and the dust gives off alpha particles which you do not want to inhale.

Отличная работа дружище! Есть опыт в кладке кирпича и блоков, но хочу научится работать с настоящим камнем. Ведь нет ничего более красивого и долговечнее)))

Nice

Nothing more sustainable than good old rock

Thx for the vid! Curious: what causes you to decide to switch between tools? Could a cross pein hammer do the trick in a pinch (probably not as well without carbide edge?)? Does a round granite fieldstone do about the same or harder to control the split?

belo trabalho,siga forte

great video....but man those carbide tools are expensive if only doing a few rocks

Great

cool

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Ya Nadamas ver donde consigo esos cinceles y con gusto lo intentaré… tengo muchas piedrillas que de verdad son un dolor y veo que así las pudiera aprovechar para muchas cosas 👍

😍 شو هلا معلم خيووووو

I have been working on splitting stones I am finding on the mountain but it seems like whenever I try to split a granite stone it just wants to blow out wherever even when using my stone buster and creating that line all the way around. Do you have any tips?

job well done video however would be nicer about 12min shorter

just wondering? Could you score the fracturing edge with a diamond wheel then use the wedge?

Cool stuff, man👍🏼

Are there any books on stone masonry, specifically cutting and shaping, that you would recommend?

Don’t want to sound totally ignorant but what are the tools you use for these videos and where do you get them?

What do you call that chisel in english? Just wondering, we call it a 'jop' over here

What tools do you use?

Are you smacking carbide with that steel mallet??

In what way can a small stone be leveled on 4 faces?) let's say 3-4 cm in volume. For dioramas.

Should have the stone on a bank.Angle grinder quicker.But that might be cheatung

No wonder stone work cost so damn much

jm

Where is Available your Working Tools

salve dove posso comprare una scalpello come il vostro dal vidio vostro ore 3:54 secondi

Why is my sandstone not splitting like this?

Брусчатка

في بلدي لتشذيب حواف الحجر نستخدم مطرقه مسننه

whatever you do, please don't get your knees dirty. thanks

hello sir what is the name of that stone hammer

Why do you buy such chisels

Looks like you are striking regular stone hammers with a striking hammer. Stone hammers are tempered differently than striking hammers. Stone hammers should not be hit with striking hammers. They should only hit stone. There are hammers to split stone in the manner you are doing. They are manufactured with the intent to be struck by another hammer. Obviously using the stone hammers inappropriately can still split a stone as you have done but you ruin the quality of your stone hammer. It is possible that the stone hammers you are using were tempered to be struck as you are doing. But, Usually the heads on those hammers are not shaped like the ones you are using. Do you know for fact that your stone hammers were manufactured to be struck by a striking hammer? Unless the manufacturer specifically has specified in writing that that’s the case, Industry standards say it’s an inappropriate use. Hate to see aspiring stonemasons ruining their tools.

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