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Different Stone Cutting Techniques
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• From crude figures carefully chipped onto cave
  walls the decoratively chiselled exteriors of
  our museums, to the glossy granite stone offcuts
  glowing their way into new kitchens across the
  world - stone has been handled by people for
  almost centuries. Artists have regularly used
  stone for sculptural work. In construction, the
  work of the stonemason can detail whole places.

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• Here we are listing some of the techniques used
  for stone cutting
• Diamond Cutting
• Flaming
• Stone Polishing

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• Diamond Cutting
• Diamond provides tools like saws, drills and
  grinders to cut straight especially solid
  surfaces, such as stone. An automated circular
  diamond saw has diamond edges fixed all around
  the line. This is used to cut away pieces of
  redundant stone moulding large boulders into
  slices of different sizes and other useful
  pieces.
• These diamond saws, which are high-pitched and
  computer-driven, work more efficiently when wet,
  as water keeps the blade from overheating. Many
  stone architects will save and frequently reuse
  the water used in this stone-cutting process.

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• Flaming
• A more avant-garde stone-cutting process is
  flaming the surface with the help of a jet torch.
  Here, high temperatures with a mix of cold water
  slice away at the stone leading to it flaking
  away. Applying torches on stone can be adopted to
  clear away any previous tool impressions, handing
  out a natural flame finish - or by applying the
  heat for more period will carve into the stone.
• Mostly flaming is used to build large outdoor
  sculptures when it is more efficient to work
  on-site. Jet torches are also employed to recover
  non-slip surfaces on stone footsteps, clear away
  graffiti from walls or even quarry small portions
  of the material.

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• Stone Polishing
• Stone can be hard, plain, matt, smooth or
  polished into a great gloss finish like glass. To
  do this there are a lot of different stone
  polishing machines that can be used. This
  consists of grinding - a mechanism identical to
  sanding, where giant metal discs or diamonds sand
  out bumpiness and imperfections. The next phase
  is buffing, where polishing powders and
  admixtures such as silicon carbide are bumped
  over the surface.

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• For immense gloss finishes, a layer might be
  applied. Similar to applying wax on wood, a
  polymer will be spread over the stone, which
  hands out it an extra shine. At the next stage,
  chemicals like fluorosilicate are splashed onto
  the stone and glossed with steel wool pads. This
  leads to glass crystals to be formed on the
  surface.
• It is worth keeping in mind that not every stone
  can be polished - marbles, granites, and some
  limestones work well, but they might all need
  various polishing techniques.

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