Diamond stone sculpting tools

Cutting, shaping and carving stone is not easy because of the hard surface. The diamond cutting discs are one of the best tools for achieving the best and precise shape with the diamond too. Many artists rely on it to get the desired results.

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We have diamond cutting and diamond shaping discs designed for stone sculpting needs. If you have any queries or need information on our products, give us a quick callat or Pacific Standard Time. Like us on Facebook and stay informed on upcoming sales, specials, and more. The chisel types include: point, tooth, rondel, gouge, and flat. They can be either all steel or, as in this case, carbide tipped. Carbide is much harder and more brittle than tempered steel, so it will keep an edge much longer.

A carbide chisel is sharpened with a green wheel on a grinder, and is never quenched. These pneumatic hammers from Trow and Holden work on an internal piston driven by compressed air. They impart many rapid strikes per second. With continuous use, the constant vibration of the hammer can cause numbness in the hands. Anti-vibration gloves with padded palms reduce this impact. There are also specialty tools such as bushing chisels, frosting chisels, cup chisel, and criss-cross chisel.

The 4 point and 9 point bushing tools are used to pulverize granite crystals when doing the final shaping of the stone. The criss-cross tool can create interesting textures. The cup tool is used for shaping concave surfaces. The frosting tool is used for texturing marble. Each size hammer requires a particular amount of air consumption to work properly.

The 1" hammer keeps my 5HP compressor running continuously. A stopcock on the hose near the hammer is used to regulate the air flow. Quick connect attachments allow you to easily remove the hammers form the hose. The banker, or work bench, should be strong enough to hold the weight of the stone and be stable enough to take the abuse of the pushing and pounding of stone carving. Sand bags can be made from the cut off legs of an old pair of jeans, filled with sand, and tied off.

Sand bags hold the work in place while you are carving and polishing. On the softer stones, inexpensive carbide masonry cutting and grinding discs can be used. Diamond blades are required for the harder stones like granite, but can also be used on the softer stones.

A flush mount adapter increases the versatility of the tool, but will have to be used without the safety guard. You must cut in a perfectly straight line with these blades. Any torque could cause the blade to bind and kick back or damage the blade. An effective way to remove stone quickly is to make a series of parallel cuts about an inch apart, then break them off with a hammer and chisel. The diamond cup wheel is very effective at smoothing rough surfaces on granite before polishing.

A die grinder can be useful when carving softer stones like soapstone and alabaster. Equipped with diamond-coated burs, it can make the job of carving small details or getting into holes and crevices much easier. The impact 'hammer' action of a hammer drill is necessary when drilling stone.

A regular drill will just spin and not cut into the stone. Carbide-tipped masonry drill bits must be used. Caution must be taken when drilling a hole completely through the stone. As you near the other side, the impact of the drill will blow out the stone surrounding the exit hole.

The impact of a larger hammer drill may be required for drilling into harder stones like granite. It uses carbide tipped drill bits. For larger holes, a pneumatic rock drill and carbide-tipped drill bits with air running down the center of the bit to the tip to blow out the dust are used. For polishing large, fairly flat surfaces on harder stones, I use a pneumatic, center water feed polisher. The polisher has a Velcro head that accepts pads containing diamonds of different grits held in a hard resin, from 40 grit coarse to grit very fine.

The water helps wash away the dust particles removed by the diamonds. Granite City Tool Co. PO Box 11 Blackwell St. Sculpture House, Inc. Skillman, NJ www. Toggle navigation Menu The Sculpture Studio. Hand Tools. Safety Equipment The most important safety rule is to always wear safety glasses. Chisels The point chisel or punch is the workhorse of the chisels. Hammers Hammers come in a variety of weights for doing different jobs. Handset The handset or pitching tool is used for knocking large chunks of stone off the edge of a square block.

Rasps and Rifflers The final shaping of the softer stones can be done with rasps. Pneumatic Stone Carving Tools. Chisels The chisels used with pneumatic hammers are basically the same as the hand tools. Pneumatic Hammers These pneumatic hammers from Trow and Holden work on an internal piston driven by compressed air.