stone cutting
Carving hard minerals
Stone cutting is the craft of shaping stone for construction, sculpture, or decorative purposes.
The work ranges from rough quarrying to precision carving of architectural details and gemstones.
A stone cutter uses saws, chisels, and polishing tools to transform raw material into finished pieces: The cathedral's gargoyles required months of stone cutting.
- limestoneCarbonate sedimentary rock
- graniteIgneous rock, quartz-rich
- marbleRecrystallized limestone rock
- chiselEdged carving implement
- quarryingOpen-pit stone mining
rock face · rough cut · cleaving · architecture · sandstone · lapidary · basalt · ashlar · dust mask · building blocks · quartzite · hand drill · carving tools · wet saw · paving stones · cobblestone streets · sculpture · hammer
- ancient craftspottery, mosaics, weaving, carpentry, blacksmithing
- masonrymason, brick, bricks, mortar, cement
- ancient engineeringarches, aqueducts, bridges, masonry, foundations
- Old Craftsmasonry, carpentry, thatching, joinery, timber framing
- rock breakingsledgehammer, jackhammer, pickaxe, dynamite, chisel
- stone industryquarry, quarries, quarrying, slabs, slab
stone cuttingwoodworking
Craft of shaping lumber
carpentry · metalworking · glassblowing · leatherworking · pottery
stone cuttingstone laying
Positioning rocks for building
stone stacking · stone masonry · masonry · stone polishing · stone setting