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 […]
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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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
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. […]
