Stone No. 1 - What goes and what stays!

 Scaling up the model and roughly working out which bits to remove in order to start revealing the first profile of the sculpture. (I find using blue spray paint works best!!)  


Drilling a sequence of long drill holes across the surface I want to remove using a very old and traditional method used by quarry men centuries ago. The term for the splitting of the stone requires 'plugs and feathers' which are steel wedges which when inserted into the drill holes and hammered down forcing the steel pins to expand and causing the stone to crack and split...hopefully where you want it to split!  


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