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Hello Wayne, I am a friend of Marcus, whom I hear you worked with about 30 years ago or so on a library in Billings. Marcus V. Can you please email me, in my channel description, as he asked me to get hold of you since he doesn't use RUclips much. Thank you.

One thing I noticed is you changed the angle between the soft stone and the hard stone.

Loved watching this video, it brought back so many memories for me as I was a London apprentice stonemason in 1974 and was City & Guilds trained for 4 years. Unfortunately I left the trade and went into the building trade and eventually had my own business. I still have all my chisels though.

I picked up a slab of soapstone, to make it a tombstone for a loved one by carving the letters into it. You mention it is lowest on the hardness scale, but if I understand correctly, tombstones are a traditional use for soapstone. It's easy to carve, but holds up to the natural elements. I have no experience with carving, etc.

Great skill and work Wayne- got onto Honest Wayne from Mike Haduck. You two are treasures.

I’m not sure that these are called Lewis pins,…..yes it lifts the stone block, but this is just a technique, Lewis pins use one hole with three pins in it, the center one wedging the two others out gripping the stone. ….Ive never used either, so what do I know

Do you still use round hammers anymore, or is it all done with pneumatic tools??

Just watched this video it’s so brilliant will use these techniques for repairing a garden statue thanks so much 👍

Granite is listed as 6-7 on the Moh's hardness scale. And marble is listed as 3, on account of being made up of calcite.

a very cumbersome way to do that. simply cut the offsets with a diamond blade angle grinder. and then chiseling in the curves saves a lot of work

Defitely the egiptians were some kind of magic in theirs works, this head test looks that its was Make by a teener

The 3 pin lewis is illegal in the UK

Hi I miss my dad his name was Wayne too thank you

major props to all the masons throughout history who managed to drill into hard stone without power tools O_O

Im in Philadelphia. Can you use the same product to repair fine crack in granite steps after opening it up with angle grinder in south Philadelphia?

Thank you I picked up a bunch of stone for nothing but had no idea what it is. I think I've got some marble and Limestone of some sort and thanks to you I know a little more about what to expect.

Very nice

Thanks for the dem

I love Mike Haddok

I bought a star drill years ago to split New England field stones for a wall I was building. Granite doesn't drill that easily!

You think one can learn this by them self? Well i mean from following youtube videos and having some artistic talent? Thanks for the video.

Hello , This is a great idea. I am sure this will come in handy with the work I am doing. This is another little gem to add to my tool chest. Straps, rock tongs, and now Lewis pins. Thank you sir, Ben

Was the initial cutting of the limestone slab a plunge cut? If so, what was the thickness of the limestone and around what speeds and feeds were used? Love the videos

Great video! Love stonemasonry!

Excellent demonstration of the technique. Nowadays we do tend to speed up things by using diamond blades on angle grinders, but unless you understand the underlying carving techniques and principles, you'll never get that quite right

Wayne, thinking about getting these pneumatic chisels. What sort of compressor and capacity do you use to run them? Thanks

That motorized chisel cuts like butter! I guess limestone is easier to work with than marble.

found you after reading about roman use of this tool to construct a stone bridge in England 2000 years ago

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I'm curious as to why you use air chisels and a file when you take the bulk of the stone off. I use a diamond blade and bullnose the piece out of a close to perfect circle not an octagon.

Pls answer my question are those building of Greece and roman I mean the classical that looks carved, is it really carved or made from viment drawing, are those datailed shapes really stones carved or just some sort of cimemt painting and carving,

Nice to finally see how this is done - great video!

What I do for coloring in some circumstances when available is remove some surface material from a hidden spot from the item and when the material is mostly cured rub that material into the new repair. I've had great success and it lasts

I live in England and I used limestone powder-Hydrated lime and pozzolan mix which overall gave me the same result. Also, good to limewash in the end to protect it from the elements. Raw lime or lime putty 50% and linseed oil or Tallow mixture with a bit of limestone powder for colouring.

is that a short stroke or full stroke air hammer ?

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Really cool. It's almost no different from the way you'd do it with wood if you were just using chisels.

Limestone is very porous. In any piece that is outdoors the water will move up and down through a limestone piece. But, epoxy is impervious to water and so a solid layer stops the water from moving in the limestone. The water will build up next to the epoxy and when it freezes, will expand and start popping out small pieces of the limestone. Instead of a solid layer, it's better to leave gaps in the epoxy layer.

Your pneumatic hammer chisel is so quiet. How?

Nicely done

Can you or do you ever use Dolomite? How would it affect the chisels. I think it's more available around me. Can you work it similar to limestone, I know it is very similar to it. Thanks for the very nice video and information.

Nice video. Thank you. Could you make a video about your tools?

Love your work, thank for sharing. Jerry D.

Beautiful carving . ❤

Great video! I learned some much from you and Mike. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, I'm actually going to give this a shot thanks to you guys!

I really appreciate your Video. I'm always trying to learn something new and recently even got into carving leather. I played around with a Wet Saw and made some simple hearts for my family but this looks really interesting!!

Working on a patio off the back door we got a slight crack in the sill and are gonna use your method... How would you refinish the whole sill? Would it be some sort of orbital sander?

What did you use to cut out the shape of the corbell to begin with

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Beautiful work! Im a mason in NYC we restore Brownstone facades and we build the design in place. Stone carving will be something I would love to learn.