Some folks have approached me and commented that they find it rather amazing that I can visualize a completed 3D sculpture in a raw block of stone. Like many skills, it is easy to master if you break the process into its component parts. This video starts showing you how to transpose a sketchbook drawing onto a rectangular block of Travertine from Iran.

After visualizing the form and rendering the image on each plane of the raw stone its time to remove the material that isn't the final sculpture. This video shows a manual and an air hammer method to remove fretted stone.

Dan and myself took our trucks to Northern Vancouver island to collect carvable stone. I have always believed that a stone sculptor needs to be able to spend material like it is endless - without concern to cost - Travelling up north allows me to acquire tons of stone for the cost of fuel. Happy like a kid in a candy store...

This really small tool has some big stature. Its really versatile in that it can carve with diamond burrs and sand with the addition of a velcro backed electroplated diamond sanding pad. It's cheap on air, and isn't hard on the wallet. Suprising value - and a well made piece of Japanese tooling.

There are endless ways to finish stone. This video clip is a product review of a quick and effective way to seal a stone for outdoor or indoor use. Give it a look.

This is a bit of video that I shot on my latest rock trip with Dan from Chemainus. My 5 ton with its Hiab knuckleboom crane is an incredibly useful and faithful metal steed... sculptor's best friend?

This is a quick video showing how a reciprocating air file can be used with Italian hand rifflers. Any brazed burr that fits into a standard pneumatic die grinder can also be placed into the chuck of this little air file. Surprisingly versatile and reasonably priced.

This is an example of a mopsander in action sanding a piece of brucite. I've heard a great number of excuses lately, from stone sculptors who aren't taking the scratches out of polished areas - no excuse with a flexible mob sander on a die grinder!

These burrs are available from Neolithic stone in Vancouver. Check my link page. These burrs are magic on marble. Truly superb.