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p 27 • FALL/WINTER 2010


As a professional sculptor I have wasted a lot of stone in my day. The last large piece I did was a granite and marble sculpture weighing in at over 30 tons. This produced about 17 tons of waste stone. All this waste was produced through splitting, using grinders, chisels and sweat. With this machine there clearly is a much faster and efficient way.


I know this


technology isn’t new, but up until a few weeks ago it was new to me.


I first tried this machine out by hooking it up to a water hose and testing it on a large block of hard marble sitting outside my studio. Now I must warn fellow sculptors, the saw is quite heavy. At first I wondered, as I started an 18 inch plunge cut, if this was something I wanted to hold up all day. To my surprise, however, the machine balanced out very nicely while cutting and was relatively easy to hold on to over time. The saw is also very noisy (luckily I have no close neighbours), but with ear protection it is quite manageable. And as my fellow sculptors will attest to, we are used to noise anyway.


The 18 inch plunge cut took minutes. I was also able to produce horizontal and vertical cuts the full depth of the blade very quickly.


This machine will


literally save days when blocking out a large sculpture.


The water feed seems quite manageable as well. It does spray, but not as badly as a water fed 7 inch circular diamond blade I often use. Nevertheless, a full length waterproof apron is recommended if you want to stay dry.


Overall, I was very impressed with the machine; so impressed, as a matter of fact, that I ordered one right away!


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