How to dress stone: Lessons from a Master stonemason.

[@mariapierce2707]

This is facinating to watch. Respect

[@dhb572]

Thank you for sharing your skills.

[@drystone-tv]

cheers for watching!

[@EssubW]

8:05 He mentions different techniques for working with granite, it would be nice to learn more about that. Most of the stone around here is more or less rounded granite ranging from almost unusable large grained and crumbly to very small grain and extremely hard. Thanks for the videos, very good stuff for learning!

[@drystone-tv]

Hoping to find some granite this year and do some videos on it!

[@MahmoudKalakesh]

😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@atruefreethinker1944]

how whimsical he nails that side and it's beautifully perpendicular.

[@lukes5461]

Thank you both for taking the time to document this 🙏

[@VINTERIUM..EXPLORIUM.1]

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[@davebloggs]

He makes it look easy which is the true mark of a craftsman very nicely done.

[@VINTERIUM..EXPLORIUM.1]

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[@worldtraveler930]

It's always a Pleasure to watch an Operative Mason at his craft!!! 🤠👍

[@VINTERIUM..EXPLORIUM.1]

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[@rofocale666]

Hahaha. I’m waiting to see a hardware store with a Masonry section that sells regalia alongside the tools.

[@worldtraveler930]

​@@rofocale666 They should as it would probably get them More customers.

[@EJ.Quarry.Dweller]

Beautiful a shout out from a fellow stone mason working Limestone off of the Niagara escarpment Door County Wisconsin.Some people pay to go to a gym and workout Instead we get paid to workout and leave behind a beautiful project 👍

[@stevenschuster]

God I love this channel. I low key would love to be out there in the damp, under an overcast sky. Hammering away, as they did thousands of years ago. Creating in stone, something permanent and real.

[@thestoneforestchannel]

Excellent work.... I am a stonemason and I also rebuild very old stone walls. Greetings from a stonemason, from Barcelona.

[@drystone-tv]

Awesome! I once helped a stonemason in Girona for a week, beautiful place! Great stone there too, amazing flat limestone. If you ever need a labourer I'll come over!!

[@j-lizgriffith6391]

I’m so happy I found your channel! I love your work and I’m learning so much! Thank you!!

[@drystone-tv]

Thanks for watching!

[@theKluck]

Thanks for sharing the wisdom of a craftsman.

[@VINTERIUM..EXPLORIUM.1]

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[@arifeapa]

Amazing! Thank you for such timeless information!

[@lukehewitt7123]

Mr Booths stone is very tough but looks very pleasing once dressed keep up the good work 😊

[@drystone-tv]

Very hard and very heavy! makes a mighty wall when its done though.

[@gerryjamesedwards1227]

It looks like that stone is well on the way to being quartzite. Lovely to watch a master at work!

[@Greebstreebling]

As stated, so much depends on the stone. Where I live in the Gower Peninsula, there are lots of dry stone walls of limestone on the cost path. If you so much as take a hammer near that stone, it shatters into pieces. So if you're a dry stone waller here, you have to more or less take the stone as it comes...:) :) Thanks for posting, nice to see.

[@PraxZimmerman]

What a delightful and informative anime this is.

[@johnmckenna5404]

Amazing! Thanks to you both for making this video and taking the time to show us all the best techniques for real stone wall building. I’m learning sooo much from your videos! Really appreciate all you guys are doing, plus the humor & love of craft comes through beautifully, which makes your channel so great to watch also.

[@scottyelder8351]

The Sand Stone sounds absolutely solid !!! The sound of that chisel! Shades of Whynn stone about that rock

[@drystone-tv]

Yeah its not nice stuff for making anything out of! Good as rockery or dry walling stone. It's best quality is how cheap it is haha!

[@markg_ogb]

Thanks for a great video, much respect for the master

[@ModernPracticalStonemason]

Would you be able to get him back on? Amazing watch.

[@louisheywood3271]

I can’t believe every stone in a bridges/ reservoir etc. would have required anywhere near that much effort before it went on a wall! New level of appreciation for all these structures we walk past everyday 🤯

[@deribrown]

There were guys dressing the stone and guys fixing the stone. Hard graft

[@nicknatuzzi2652]

My new, favorite channel! ✅💯💪

[@drystone-tv]

wow, thanks!

[@jacobmiller5834]

Need a whole series with this chap.

[@gloriinher40s]

I love KZbin so much. You can find videos on how to do just about anything.

[@BlackheartCharlie]

Great video - thanks for posting ! I have the greatest respect for skills like those, learned over decades of hard work. It will be a long time before any robot/AI can do this. :-)

[@jamesowen1213]

Old ways best.The old mason who taught me said you had to lose enough skin of your hand to make a masons apron before you can call yourself a mason.Tough game

[@ptonpc]

It's nothing something I will likely ever do but this is still fascinating. Thank you. Your doggy supervisor is working hard :)

[@drystone-tv]

Thanks for watching, Rowler the dog keeps a close eye on us

[@jeetenzhurlollz8387]

thank you sir for sharing your knowledge and experience with us

[@timb350]

This is one job that AI will NEVER replace.

[@clashcityrocker1367]

Wonderful! Watching and listening to a craftsman at work. Thank you!

[@halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550]

Love it!! Would like to see a multi-point Crandall Hammer used to dress the sides. Like an 8 or 12 point hammer.

[@davepowell7168]

Id like this guys opinion on the pitch faces of Chinese quarries. Done from scaffold or boat. 'Curious being' channel is amusing

[@audegottoeaudegottoe363]

Have @Wonderful New Year's !//thanks

[@willbee6785]

That 50 year old hammer has had 3 new handles and 2 new heads. It has lasted well.

[@KingdomKerry]

Hahhaha alright Dave

[@VINTERIUM..EXPLORIUM.1]

Nice Work & Video 👍

[@FIZZYYAM]

Had the same hammer for 50 years... Six new handles and 3 new heads.

[@craigmurrayauthor]

he is doing a thing that echoes through history, very little has changed in 5000 years. Better tools, but the skill remains the same

[@Jessie-ev2th]

The dog in the tractor 😊

[@edwardpriestley2747]

Have you ever tried a mallorcan hammer has the same square end with the dimple on one end the other end tapers to a point works great for dressing New Hampshire granite!!!

[@PaulBraman-t1h]

Awesome thanks!!!!!!!!

[@scottemery4737]

At about the 6:00 mark, look how mushroomed that chisel is. It certainly has a lot of use on it.

[@drystone-tv]

Should probably tidy that chisel up!

[@hudaverdiagalday8228]

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[@davehawes8177]

Now you've got the basics sorted can you give us a hand with a Sphinx? 😊

[@gnito72]

Great that you filming old knowledge - this split view is great, but could you use good cameras - so this kowledge wont be lost... ...thank you very much !!!

[@drystone-tv]

If this page ever takes off I'll buy a good camera, for now it's the smartphone/go pro combo

[@gnito72]

@@drystone-tv Take a good Chinese-Cam, they are much cheaper than a GoPro and they are at least "Pro" as the Go's (they pay just a lot of PR) AND THANKS AGAIN FOR THE GREAT CONTENT !!!

[@bratty00]

Just wondering if you ever you use lime mortar for your coping stones...cement isnt vapor permable so the stone can spall due to the freeze/thaw cycles

[@pheenix42]

The sound of a working man from several thousand years ago.

[@johnmurryvlogs8603]

Excellent 👍

[@drystone-tv]

Thank you!

[@plainsimple442]

Is this the rustication for the face of the stone?

[@bigoldgrizzly]

As a matter of interest, are both ends of the punching hammer dressed the same and do you find yourself using one end more than the other?

[@453421abcdefg12345]

Very many thanks for posting this excellent tutorial! Is the cutting of hard limestone very much different to this? The strata layers are different I find when cutting, but it is of course much softer than this hard sandstone you are cutting here. Would you recommend using a Scutch for facing, or would that give too much cutting surface and not chip out the waste? Chris B.

[@drystone-tv]

There is so much variation in stone that it would be difficult to comment without seeing the material you are using first hand. And it all depends on what finish you are aiming for - whether you want to see the chisel marks or not. We don't use scutch chisels just because we don't like the marks they leave, if we ever use a claw tool (which is similar to a scutch) then we go over it with a broad tool. This is the way I was taught on banker masonry courses at The Orton Trust. Probably worth doing a video on the whole process!

[@453421abcdefg12345]

@@drystone-tv Yes there is variation even in stone from the same area I think it is due to the amount of weather exposure, both heat and cold, and yes, I find the scutch leaves a very "modern" type texture, where I want to end up with a more traditional look

[@ts109]

I love it when chips are flying

[@shawnbottom4769]

The mushroom on that chisel though....

[@andrewbiggs3750]

What weight punching hammer do you prefer?

[@aaronsaunders6974]

sandstone is said to be one of the toughest to chisel, true?

[@drystone-tv]

it really depends, some sandstone is terribly hard and some is very soft. This stuff was not that good to chisel but Its all we could get hold of.

[@kristakaufman-y6j]

Put that younger one to work! lol He shouldn't be standing watching you do all the work! lol

[@LyndaPogue]

A mans work totally!

[@bettyswollocks5278]

I’ve had this hammer 50 years and it’s only had 4 new heads and new 9 shafts 😉

[@msgillingham]

Gifted

[@richardhenry3052]

What type of stone is that?

[@drystone-tv]

Gritstone.

[@blahblah9036]

Step 1: select clothing Step 2: apply clothing to stone

[@stemack1975]

Beutiful Accent

[@hankmeg1]

Stop it you’re killing him!😂

[@drystone-tv]

Thanks, it's always difficult for me to try and translate the techniques into instructions that people can follow!

[@jeanmorin3247]

How can hands last for a lifetime doing that kind of work. It takes one blow to break the bones.

[@JamesDesk]

Those cloth caps are the only PPE you need.

[@drystone-tv]

@@JamesDesk don't forget the safety squint

[@andrewatkinson5570]

He made that look too easy

[@Pappy-n5i]

Y do u have to dress the stone. It looked fine without. 😊

[@drystone-tv]

for making straight house walls it makes the building fast and efficient to dress them to uniform sizes

[@johnmcdyer1573]

The master

[@felipesants8936]

THE DOG .

[@drystone-tv]

He's called Rowler

[@markopolo5695]

Great accent

[@willbee6785]

👍

[@newearthmirror186]

So do stone dressers actually lay the stone or is that a stone mason job...I'm guessing that 'Master stonemason' means you can do everything with a stone!

[@drystone-tv]

You're dead right, Stone mason is a broad term for many different elements of the craft including, banker masonry, fixing, lettering, and walling. Most masons are specialised in one particular element of the job.

[@Ndnlover]

Somebody please play ball with the dog..

[@brucecurtis6281]

Eye protection? Especially those around you; hand guard? Mushroomed chisel… If you know what you’re doing you can get away with this, but it’s no way to start as a beginner. Alston stone?

[@drystone-tv]

I'll make a health and safety video, good idea 💡 those hand guard things though... total waste of time. Gloves do the job a lot better. Not Alston, this is from a local farm in South Yorkshire.

[@CageLawyerMinion]

Master stoner

[@michelarmand41]

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[@AtlasRathbane4346]

Sadly these techniques don't work on my local stone. We have hard asf sandstone

[@felixwalton6227]

Lol what fo ypu think this is

[@wetrock2766]

I have hand cut 27 tons of sandstone for my house 32 years ago, the stone from a quarry in southern Quebec is even harder than this one.

[@aurktman1106]

The harder the stone, the longer the carving will last though, correct? Some sandstone that has been chiseled over here in the US is eroded in less than 100 years and no longer has its shape/features.

[@Gesus_23]

Unprofessional af. Kick the dog, not the ball

[@bettyswollocks5278]

I’ve had this hammer 50 years and it’s only had 4 new heads and new 9 shafts 😉

[@MorbidEel]

Must the hamner used to build the Ship of Theseus