Talk:Stone carving

message: looking for stone carving I found that the page redirected to Petraglyph, which is relevant but isn't the whole story.
Seems that wiki suffers from a lot of theoretical info at the expense of the practical sometimes.
so i fleshed out the page with a 'hopefully' inclusive definition and added some content about stone carving as an activity.
hope it meets with your approval.
DavidP 21:54, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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message: We have a confusing situation here- it appears the Stone sculpture section of this article was either originally from Sculpture or it was from here and added there. Then it was removed from Sculpture in March and added to Stone sculpture. However we now have people complaining at Sculpture that there is nothing about how sculpture is made on that page... Gustav von Humpelschmumpel 18:52, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Stone sculpture

message: Hi,
Being a stone sculptor myself, I'd say the sentence then swings the mallet at it with the strongest possible stroke. He must be careful to strike the end of the tool accurately; the smallest miscalculation can damage the sculptor’s hand is not correct. Most important is a carefully controlled stroke, power has little to do with it. You can use repeated strokes if one isn't enough. The part about damaging ones hand seems overly dramatic, but damage is to be expected if you attack the stone with full force instead of full controll. Zwitser 17:37, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strongest possible stroke 

message: uses the gender specific "he" pronoun.  I'm thinking of going to the "s/he" form for a bit and seeing what happens.  Feel free to offer an ((opinion)).  Carptrash 14:40, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Much of this article  

message: I changed the title of the photograph Image:Stonemasonry1.jpg , for this is clearly a stone sculptor, not a stonemason. It is quite common to get this mixed up, but a stonemason carves flat and profiled blocks and panels, but a stone sculptor does the ornaments and sculptures. Cordially, --Satrughna02 (talk) 21:41, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photograph of stone sculptor 

message: I was considering making a small addition to this article for direct carving, but am uncertain the location in the article that would be best for it. Direct carving was an important movement in sculpture from the early 20th century, and includes such European artists as Constantin Brâncuşi and Jacob Epstein , as well as such American carvers as Jose de Creeft and John B. Flannagan (who strangely does not have a WP article). 173.52.187.133 (talk) 16:39, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Under Stone sculpture, of course, but there is already something there. Could be expanded. Even better still, rewrite the article Stone sculpture itself... --Satrughna (talk) 12:16, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Direct carving 

message: WOuld be nice if there are structural qualities of the stone itself that make for intinsically desirable carving. As in Mohs Hardness range for specific tools or styles. Whether crystalline structure characteristics of the rock molecules are of any concern: like Crystal Class, Space Group, Cleavage plane, Lattice System (ie: Monoclinic, Triclinic) have any bearing on types of stone used/chosen for use in sculpture? Or even if particular Categories of Rock are preferred more than others? 81.102.111.206 (talk) 10:30, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intrinsic qualities of stone needed for good carving and/or preferred for particular carving style... 

message: Slate is missing as a stone that is easy to carve. There is no mention of using ring saws to cut out shapes for carving. Soft stone surfaces can be finished/polished with wet sanding by hand with course thru fine grit sand paper. (80, 120, 220, 400, 600)  I didn't want to edit the main text. Better if someone involved with this page would add this info in. 47.148.188.240 (talk) 17:04, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slate carving