Watch me learn how to carve this monolith

Not very often do I feel as though somethings out of my skill set, also not very often do I finish something and be pleased deep down in myself. This however was a combination of the two.
I ended up gluing two pieces on and found out that I had no need to. This all just goes to show, trust the process. Trust yourself. I took an extra day where I could’ve been done this far quicker. Have a look around the 12 minute mark and try and see if you can see where I think I went wrong.
Anyway, enjoy the video. I’ve tried to give as much detail as I could.
Start- 01:12 intro
01:12-05:36 Taking templets
05:36-15:42 Cutting stone
15:42-end Finished product
#construction #tips #stone #stonemason #cement #building #tricks #brick #stonemasonry #sandstone #carving #craft #tipsandtricks

[@derekmanlow453]

Absolute pleasure to watch your work. Much respect! Thanks for sharing

[@ModernPracticalStonemason]

It’s these sorts of comments that make it worth it Derek thank you for watching.

[@derekmanlow453]

@@ModernPracticalStonemason You're most welcome. Cheers from Canada!

[@ModernPracticalStonemason]

@@derekmanlow453 you guys have some top quality stonemasons over there!

[@tonyalways7174]

That’s really impressive and must be a real mind fvck trying to figure out where to cut to take out the scrap. Fascinating to watch so thanks for sharing.

[@ModernPracticalStonemason]

Aye it was a head scratcher it’s something I hadn’t done before and had to make templates up as I went really

[@joeyobee32]

Nice one - How long all in did it take?

[@ModernPracticalStonemason]

It took me 4 hours to template it and another 40 hours to cut. That includes 10 hours fixing a mistake which didn’t need fixing 😟

[@diveinnjim]

very nice, but it cant be 282kg, did you mean lbs?

[@ModernPracticalStonemason]

No KG. You can work it easily out by finding the volume and you times it by the density. In this case 282 kilos.