With limestone, there's no sanding or polishing; the mark of the chisel is evident. At this year's Indiana Limestone Symposium at Bybee Stone Co. in Ellettsville, the stone you will carve, the tools ...

The granite found on Elephantine Island shows signs of deliberate and precise work. These features suggest more than basic ...

The finish cutting was done with a variety of simple hand tools of ancient design. These were struck by a hand hammer and included tools such as the set, point, tracer, chipper, drill, and chisel that ...

A chisel is a hand tool with a characteristic wedge-shaped cutting edge at the end of its blade. A chisel is useful for carving or cutting hard material such as wood, stone, or metal. Stone chisels ...

This is the latest in a monthly column on central Vermont's granite industry by the Vermont Granite Museum. Abenaki Indians were probably the first to use Barre granite. In their treks between Lake ...