Stone Carving: Q&A + Gallery... - Tiki Carving

P Paipo Member Aotearoa / NZ Joined: Jun 22, 2006 Posts: 1886	P Paipo Posted posted on Tue, Jul 17, 2007 2:02 AM PPS: Benz, Tama has carved some nice granite sculptures (think they are in the first page or two of this thread) and I've used a little myself, mainly for bases. The one we use is fairly uniform grey/black without the sparkly bits - an Indian stone we get from the monumental mason. It takes a good finish from matt to mirror and carves like butter. As prairie jade mentioned, some varieties have quite large inclusions of varying colour and structure - I'd probably avoid these for carving. I have a whole pile of samples from a benchtop factory too, where my cousin runs the CNC plant. Wish I'd taken my camera - the machines there were incredible. If I can find a sample with a label that matches the good stuff, I'll let you know what it's called. PPPS: Welcome to our newest stoner Prairie Jade!

PPS: Benz, Tama has carved some nice granite sculptures (think they are in the first page or two of this thread) and I've used a little myself, mainly for bases. The one we use is fairly uniform grey/black without the sparkly bits - an Indian stone we get from the monumental mason. It takes a good finish from matt to mirror and carves like butter. As prairie jade mentioned, some varieties have quite large inclusions of varying colour and structure - I'd probably avoid these for carving. I have a whole pile of samples from a benchtop factory too, where my cousin runs the CNC plant. Wish I'd taken my camera - the machines there were incredible.
If I can find a sample with a label that matches the good stuff, I'll let you know what it's called.

PPPS: Welcome to our newest stoner Prairie Jade!

Post #319174 by Paipo on Tue, Jul 17, 2007 2:02 AM