This is brilliant, the likelihood of me running into a mason with the time or patience, let alone the skill to teach me this is slim to none, so thanks
Fantastic, I think that you guys should expand your online learning and get your students prepared before they come in for instruction. There are some excellent examples of modern teaching learning out there that I think Bath college would benifit from gaining you exposure and more funding Good Luck and many thanks
Yeah. Because you can "learn" manual labor skills and processes "online" watching a fucking computer screen. Or even "offline" watching somebody else do it or listening to them tell you how. Right? You bet. Go back to your office job now. Somebody is paying to "think", after all. Not "do".
@Chad Meyer I have seen a few of your comments here, in relation to Rays videos. As the previous comment said, I detect envy of Rays talents, and would like to add " you sir are a class A clown" !. Remind me of another twit who comments on bricklaying videos paddledog. Trying to run others down claiming to b something they aren't. More like wishing they where!.
Why don't you use the saw for all the straight cuts? And if your going to use a saw why not an angle grinder with a diamond blade? If you had to make 100 of theses it would take you forever like this. I am a mason in the states, if it took me that long to carve a stone I wouldn't make any money.
Maybe people are paying more to have the stonework hand made? I mean, people will often pay more for hand forged knives, hand sewn clothes, and other things simply for the satisfaction of having it made in a traditional labor-intensive manner, so maybe this is no different. Also in one of his other videos he is lecturing a group of people, so maybe this is all done as hand work as a teaching aid. Final possibility, maybe it's going to go onto a historic building as part of a restoration, and part of the preservation process requires that it all be done by hand work in order to more closely match the other stone, and in order to prevent the craft from being lost in general. Or it could be something completely different, haha, just speculation on my part.
Many people are paying more when they're spending other peoples' money, you mean. Such as "museums" and "libraries" and other "government" and "non-profit" entities, organizations, etc. There are tons of people making damned good money and getting unbelievable benefits for "studying" things that are THEORETICAL because some people will spend OTHER PEOPLES' MONEY on damn near ANYTHING. But that doesn't exactly make your "defense" of "traditional" methods of "stone cutting" in a SHOP FULL OF POWER TOOLS "legitimate" EITHER, does it? I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you have a college degree in something you don't actually do, have never done "real work" of the MANUAL LABOR variety in your life and are perfectly happy to keep it that way as long as somebody else is willing to do it FOR YOU. Correct?
@@chadmeyer9500 my guess, this being a school and all, they probably need to learn traditional tools before they can make the best uses of power tools. I'm trained in machining and I was using a file and hand tools long before I ever was able to use a milling machine or metal lathe. Granted this is just a guess.
