Love your videos mate, I'm a bricky but I've been laying natural stone for the past month and hadn't really had to dress stone before. your videos really have helped. Big love.
Great stuff 👍 before this I just thought that a chisel was a chisel, but now I'm getting interested in knowing all these differences between nicking tools and bolsters etc.
Can we still buy Riley punch hammers from Travis? There's nowt on their website. Gibson from Leeds do one, do you have any experience with their tools?
From the way you speak, you might be out in England or something. But that might just be your point of origin. Maybe you relocated somewhere. If you're anywhere around in the USA, my Boss is looking for workers. Of the 18 stone masons that have tried to lay stone, only 5 have actually made the cut. The joints are SUPER tight. Like 1/16" tight. I don't know if you're capable of doing that. Most stone masons I've been seeing... can't... like... they suck. One dude swore up and down that he was the "Best in the business," to my boss. he comes to work and tells me that he googled "how to get tight joints". And there's many techniques, or approaches, to it, for sure, but it's not something that can be googled. And it's not something learned on a weekend. I showed him how I get tight joints. But I use 4 1/2" grinder blade on an angle grinder, and he showed up without any tools. He starts asking ME for tools... seems to me, he should have had $300 sectioned off to buy an angle grinder, a steel chisel, a few levels, and some string line... but no. He wound up borrowing a company cop saw, with a massive freaking blade. The first thing he had to work on was a threshold. Not really one needing a keystone or anything. But it was a horizontal corner. And the way you identify a stone mason is if they understand the jargon (he didn't) and if they have really straight corners. Our leads and any horizontal corner, is all saw cut. He left natural edges, accross the horizontal corner. I told him to cut the bottom faces and to lay the stones again, and to make sure it's laser straight. I wasn't his manager, but it looked terrible. So he cut them, layed them again... and the corner was still bobbing and weaving. He only laid 5 medium sized stone that day. The guy asked me to teach him...but he didn't have the means to use my workflow. He didn't even have a chisel... By the end of the day... it was...really sad. It was even in his voice. So... that's the average "best in the business stone mason" we're getting these days, in the USA. If you're able to work down here, you should consider it. Feel free to reach out, if you're interested.
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Love your videos mate, I'm a bricky but I've been laying natural stone for the past month and hadn't really had to dress stone before. your videos really have helped. Big love.
Great stuff 👍 before this I just thought that a chisel was a chisel, but now I'm getting interested in knowing all these differences between nicking tools and bolsters etc.
This is a hidden gem.
Can we still buy Riley punch hammers from Travis?
There's nowt on their website.
Gibson from Leeds do one, do you have any experience with their tools?
What happens to R H & G Travis & Son Ltd? There is no products on their webstore.
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@@the_yorkshire_stone_dresser stay warm dude.🥶
From the way you speak, you might be out in England or something. But that might just be your point of origin.
Maybe you relocated somewhere.
If you're anywhere around in the USA, my Boss is looking for workers.
Of the 18 stone masons that have tried to lay stone, only 5 have actually made the cut.
The joints are SUPER tight. Like 1/16" tight.
I don't know if you're capable of doing that. Most stone masons I've been seeing... can't... like... they suck.
One dude swore up and down that he was the "Best in the business," to my boss. he comes to work and tells me that he googled "how to get tight joints". And there's many techniques, or approaches, to it, for sure, but it's not something that can be googled. And it's not something learned on a weekend.
I showed him how I get tight joints. But I use 4 1/2" grinder blade on an angle grinder, and he showed up without any tools.
He starts asking ME for tools... seems to me, he should have had $300 sectioned off to buy an angle grinder, a steel chisel, a few levels, and some string line... but no.
He wound up borrowing a company cop saw, with a massive freaking blade.
The first thing he had to work on was a threshold. Not really one needing a keystone or anything. But it was a horizontal corner. And the way you identify a stone mason is if they understand the jargon (he didn't) and if they have really straight corners.
Our leads and any horizontal corner, is all saw cut.
He left natural edges, accross the horizontal corner.
I told him to cut the bottom faces and to lay the stones again, and to make sure it's laser straight. I wasn't his manager, but it looked terrible.
So he cut them, layed them again... and the corner was still bobbing and weaving.
He only laid 5 medium sized stone that day. The guy asked me to teach him...but he didn't have the means to use my workflow. He didn't even have a chisel...
By the end of the day... it was...really sad. It was even in his voice.
So... that's the average "best in the business stone mason" we're getting these days, in the USA.
If you're able to work down here, you should consider it. Feel free to reach out, if you're interested.