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Author: Tom Small

Eight easy steps to polishing basalt

Many carvers are intimidated by the difficulty of sanding and polishing basalt. This is entirely unnecessary. Basalt is in fact very easy to finish if you follow these eight easy steps. Soon you will discover that deep space raven’s wing glow within your own dark and crusty igneous chunks. 1. Prepare the work site environment. […]

Birth of a Notion – May/June 2006

Once in a while I’ll draw a plan for a sculpture and get excited and say, “This is it – just do it!” But the stone has its own realities. The mass and weight and stoniness of the stone ask me to relate to it directly and draw on the stone, to cut it and […]

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