Because some people know you don't "teach" jack shit by telling someone how to do it. Least of all a bunch of school kids who may not have the slightest fucking interest in being a "craftsman".
Good vid, it's sort of helping me work out my entry into stone carving. My grandad was incredible at it, I've inherited his tools but it's him I need! It's easy to watch a video, but in honesty this has helped show me it isn't as impossible as it was feeling!
Your grandad learned from his mentors and you can learn from the guys online. My favorite teacher was an illustrator named steve rude, who kept these amazing sketchbooks that captured all he learned in visual form, you could read his books and know new techniques five minutes later. You could do the same. Failure is how you learn. It cannot be avoided, only minimized. Get out and do what you love!
@@BarefootViking yes mate I did, made an inscribed heart shape from alabaster as a gift, few other mess about projects. Wood is easier to source for me and I enjoy it more, but I look out for stone in case I fancy it again.
The best demonstration of an art almost gone, hopefully the young pick up on the art and skills of an honorable position, congratulations on the skill of the instructor
Wonderful skill from a craftsman. He made it look so easy. My great grandfather was a master stonemason. I looked for the video to get some appreciation of what he did.
This guys a good banker mason. Being just a brick mason my self I've never really had the opportunity to practice this skill. When I took my apprenticeship we spent only one day banking using lime stone. So needless to say I can't truly consider my self a legit stone mason until I learn this often neglected part of my trade.
After watching this video I ordered myself a nylon mallet, a square and a chisel. Now I need to find out where to buy rough blocks of stone so I can learn to bone in and make them square. I've always been fascinated by ashalar masonry and would love to learn how to do it myself. Thank you!
If you're lucky you get a questioney kid in class and that gives the auditory learners something to hear. The visual kids hate the distraction of the sound of questions. We all learn differently, so I suggest if you get a chance, go ahead an ask if the instructor likes talking. If not, play some rock music!
So ive never really had the ambition to carve something in stone. However in my trade i find my self being forced into stone work. Sometimes i got to get a 3incht diamter hole through brick for an exhuast pipe or a 24x8 hole for duct work through concret i find i enjoy the repetitiveness of chiseling or boring the hole...i make it as neat and nice as i can. also jack hammering is always a fun hard days work 😂😂😂 im a jack ass of a mason with out a realistic knowledge of anything... i now find i want to learn more about this art form to better my workmanship... not gonna lie tho those bore holes in the megalithic structures looks just like my $499.99 hilti bore holes 😂😂😂😃
This guy is highly skilled and yet thousands of years ago there were people that might make this guy look like a apprentice. Some of which had no metal tools and used harder stones the people that built Puma Punku for example. Master craftsman using techniques lost to time sadly.
john o your own statement should make you realize how ridiculous that whole idea sounds.. No metal tools? Ever seen some of the work in Egypt in GRANITE? start questioning the dumb shit you've been taught.
@@iambeing4328 I have to agree. Were they banging fist sized diamonds on granite? Probably not. They also weren't using copper or bronze, or iron or even just normal steel for most of their very skillfully carved granite, diorite, basalt, and quartz art and artifacts. Lasers, certainly not, but they had proper tools.
As important a right angles and being square is for some projects, organic shapes are much more beautiful and fun. I love working with stone, but am not enslaved by these principles of extreme measuring.
Those principles are mandatory for functional structural stone masonry. Right now I am 3 weeks into a 5 week stone archway. every blocks angle must be precise because the entire arch will weigh 1400lb's and have no mortar or reinforcment. In contrast the outside faces are naturally shaped so as to look like natures own carving, you would never know looking at the finnished product that is dry stone or that the internal faces are so finely graded.
i am a stonemason and he must have very good quality sandstone for making such big strikes in 11:25 in lesser stone that will make large chips and go under the line creating holes. The way he is carving the stone is not good for beginers the constant lifting of the chisel is not a easy technic steady hand and precise aim you get after 1-2 years of work and carving this fast at least another 4
+scasny This is a Portland limestone and is worked a lot differently to sandstone. With Portland it is a high quality freestone and you can work more off in one go ,like you say if I did this with sandstone it would pluck out leaving big holes. The methods shown are techniques which have been used for 100s of years in the Portland quarries.
I dont disagree with you i dont realise that is limestone most of the time i work with granite.It must be very satisfaing fealing working on some fine limestone.I dont want to criticise you the stile of working reminded me of mine teachers.Now i use the chisel same way it just takes 6 years to feel the stone and make big precise stikes.I work with stone 13+ years and still lerning. Be proud but modest
DUDE....I LEARNED THAT TECNIQUE IN THE FIRST MONT OF TECHNICAL COLLEDGE.....YOU MAY NEED TO UN-LEARN A BAD HABIT......YOU MUST AIM AND RESET EACH STROKE.....MAYBEE 2 TAPS BUT NO MORE OR YOU DRIFT AND DIG IN.....THIS IS LIMESTONE....SANDSTONE IS SIMILAR BUT GRANITE IS ....BIGGER TOOLS AND MORE FORGIVING.....WHEN YOU HIT THESE SOFTER STONS.....YOUR GRANITE HABITS WILL BRING YOU TO GREIF.....maybee thats why you go under the line.....you may be holding your chisels to tight as well.
Dude i dont know what part of the word are you but i am from poor state in central europ i only work with cheap shit grade stones.One time i impact too hard and the stone with size of a microwave split in half vere the vein was.Most of the time when i work i not a good idea to chip chunks biger that a dime
I hope the "teacher" here and all the "students" are wearing respirators and safety glasses. Don't want anybody getting any "on the job" injuries or illnesses from improper or incomplete PPE.
Enrique Rosas I was referring to the tool, as in a "try square", not the piece being worked. Maybe you should actually know what you're talking about before trying to correct someone.
mabee you should take a chill pill you dill......how would anyone know you meant a try sqare....you try hard....its one word the guy wrote to an obvious lame joke....get the fuck over yourself.....and its a set square..... actually..... !?!
Dave, while speed and cost are important on some jobs, the old trades seem to carry a way of understanding the materials when you cut them by hand. One way isnt' better than the other, but a master hand carver can always use a blade, while a blade man cannot use chisels. So there seems to be a knowledge gained going from stone age to space age while a student.
industrial projects always obviously will use machine cutting...but there will always be a need to continue on the tradition of stone masonry... one practical reason is because lots of repair work on old buildings all over the world need a true artist and craftsman because machines cant be used for repair work most of the time and for a thousand other reasons
mallets are used on mallet head chisels....musroom headed to you.....and a grinder leaves a grinder mark....and looks crap.....if you get a skutch comb chisle and clean up the marks its ok....but you need to be able to work without electricity to call youself a real stonemason.
Hi Dominic of course I remember you, you were an apprentice at Exeter Cathedral with Andrew French. We had a good time back in 1979 at Weymouth College, I am now teaching at Bath College. I have been here over ten years. Pop in and see us if you are ever in Bath, The same goes for anyone.
Hello Ray My names luke I am 33 do you think I am too old to get into this now? What should I do and who should I speak too? This video was fantastic for a beginner like myself I really appreciate it
i wonder what skill if any anyone gets from watching demos like this. my college years were filled with demos that did nothing really...watching someone use the teqnique that took years to develop..all well and good but nothing is learned by watching.
That's not true at all. Having an impression of how something should look is a massive step in learning how to do a task. there's so much being communicated and written explanations tend towards unbearably dry because of the minutiae that needs to be expressed. It's establishing a common reference to work forward from.
some people can learn from just watching. I am one of those people. I watched this video just now and I know that I could replicate that with very little practice.
Dara, a good actor absorbs everything about a character in observation. Observation absorbs everything from breathing to smell to sight to mannerisms to pacing. To observe a demo is actually to try to imagine YOU are the person doing it. Try to put yourself in their skin, like an actor observing the character they are creating, or compositing out of several. It's a shame you weren't taught that. Some students who are kinesthetic, (have to move to learn) space out during demos because they HAVE TO DO. But DO what? You have to build your observational empathy.
Instead they had alloy's of copper containing tin, arsenic, and nickle. Take your ancient alien bullshit elsewhere. While youre at it, go do some reading on ancient copper alloys and come back when you have some actual information you looked up yourself.
Ray, where do you get your chisels from? For the life of me I cannot find a company (at least not online) that sells hand points or tooth chisels. Even if I did, I doubt they would ship to canada. It's really bugging me because I see all these masons using these tools, but I have no idea where they get them.
Try this place according to there website they ship abroad did not specify Canada but sure you could drop them a quick line.. I buy from them never had a problem. www.shop.g-gibson.com/
I can’t help thinking that one of those young fellas with their arms crossed are thinking, “grab a nine inch flush cut mate, and a quick rub with the carby and she’s sorted”.
My grandad was a stone mason and I’m about to start a small project on a piece of sandstone, this man has great rhythm and is used to working at some speed! I hope I can get 10% of his ability!
