Northwest Stone Sculptors Association to be Featured at the 36th Annual Best of the Northwest Spring Show
NWSSA Artists to be beatures at the 36th Annual Best of the Northwest Spring Show April 12-13, 2025
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Safety for Stone Sculptors – OSHA
Safety for Stone Carving 1. The Mental and Physical Thing: Is your mind clear and focused on doing your work safely? Are you impaired in any way? 2. Your Work Space: Is your workspace free of tripping hazards? Is there enough light to see what you are doing. General house keeping. 3. Personal Protective Equipment […]
Working Wet and Carving in a Small Space
The Wet Carving Box and How to Carve in Small Places For over a decade, I’ve worked year round in my basement wet carving stone. I have constructed a small work place to eliminate the dust, contain the water, and work in the comfort of a controlled environment. This presentation is an introduction to what […]
Sanding Mandrels – Roll Your Own
Sanding mandrels are very useful in grinding, rounding, and sanding the upper inside lips of stone vases. The transition between a flat surface and a core-drilled hole is usually sharp, rough, or even damaged. The mandrel on a die grinder allows you to shape, sand and polish this area. Presented below is how to make […]
HAND-ARM VIBRATION SYNDROME
The other day I had some pain in my wrist. I had been working on a piece with the air hammer and hand tools. This pain lingered for days. For over 40 years, 30 years as a Pile Driver, I have subjected my body to bad vibrations. Chain saws, rivet busters ( small jackhammers), large […]
Building a “Take Apart” Cedar Pedestal
Take apart cedar pedestals are a response to several needs: This design has proven itself starting in 2011 and over the course of a one day workshop in October 2013, 8 members build over 17 pedestals. This article tells you about how to build your own. Below are the instructions and diagram. ([Click Here] to download […]
Breathing Protection
Dust produced while working with stone containing silica and other harmful minerals is not just an annoying problem, it is a real concern and threat to your health as well as anyone who hangs around your dust filled studio space. Maybe you work wet on everything, capture all the sludge run-off and keep it contained, […]
Pat Barton – Artist Spotlight
Hi, Pat. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? I lived and grew up on a dairy farm in South Prairie, Washington, not far from Buckley, or Enumclaw. My mother, sister and I took care of 60 milk cows. My father commuted to and worked in Seattle, he worked on the farm on […]
Nooksack Dream – Pat Barton
“Nooksack Dream”Pat Bartonbartonstonework.comprice: NFSContact Pat Barton(425)-643-0756pat@bartonstonework.comWEB: Pat Barton’s Stone Work Forms in nature and the interior beauty of the hard stones inspire me. I mainly focus on abstract forms in hard stone. I combine natural river rounded forms and carving areas that complement and put a sense of motion into the existing form. I carve to create […]