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A rather boring thread about old ways of cutting stone, which is redeemed in the end with a story about an anarchist bricklayer, and in which I also reveal the secret of the practically god-like powers of the stonemason (me).
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Cutting stone is a practical matter; it’s a matter of picking up a rock and making a stone that can be used to build. Here’s a photo of Ottawa in the 1860s; cutting stone is a process of turning what you see in the foreground into what you see in the background. Simple.
The simplest walls are those of rubble: random, unsquared, relatively unworked. Rubble involves a minimum of effort; the best natural face is used, minor projections are expected, and deficiencies in the stone are made good with generous quantities of mortar.
