A fifth-generation stonemason discusses how to choose stone, build a wall on sloping ground, circular walls, windowsills, fireplaces, stairs, arches and hunchbacked bridges.
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The author, a fifth-generation master stonemason who has worked on the U.S. Capitol building as well as numerous edifices in his native Scotland, has compiled an impressive guide to both building and restoring stonework. Excellent illustrations, photographs, and a comprehensive text all help explain an extremely complex subject in terms comprehensible to lay readers. Cramb shows how to build numerous structures, including walls, arches, and towers, and how to restore or preserve existing edifices. Other sections describe different types of stones, stonemason's terminology, and tools and their use. This outstanding work will appeal to architects, renovators, and historians as well as anyone interested in how large stone buildings like castles were built. Recommended for academic and public libraries.
- Jonathan Hershey, Akron-Summit Cty. P.L., Ohio
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Jonathan Hershey, Akron-Summit Cty. P.L., Ohio
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Stonemasonry,
By stormy "stormy" (nebraska) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Art of the Stonemason (Paperback)
I became interested in the art of stone masonry a couple of years ago. This book is by far the most excellent one I have seen, and I have researched back as far as the 1870's. Mr. Cramb is definitely an artisan beyond compare.
If for aesthetic value alone, this book would be worth every penny.
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By "r_vanneman" (Fairfax, VA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Art of the Stonemason (Paperback)
Excellent book if you are really intrested in learning the trade! Specifications on building substantial projects, basic principles of stone masonry. Feels like an apprenticeship as you read and study. Unfortunately, no one to ask questions of which you're bound to encounter. Even adds section on cutting stone- the only one I've seen.
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This is the book,
By "jswebioli" (Florham Park, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Art of the Stonemason (Paperback)
The author provides hard and fast do's and don'ts derived from his experience of many years. If you want to learn how to build a traditional mortared stone wall this is the best book around. With or without the color photos, buy it.
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lagging pieces, trammel rod, spandril arch, fox wedges, hunchbacked bridge, random rubble wall, cement pointing, putty lime, rawhide hammer, parts sharp sand, springing line, ribbed arch, hanging steps, saddle stone, flush point, rubble work, plumb rule, part lime, relieving arch, part cement, flat arch, mortar mix, arch stones, lime mix, rubble building Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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lagging pieces, trammel rod, spandril arch, fox wedges, hunchbacked bridge, random rubble wall, cement pointing, putty lime, rawhide hammer, parts sharp sand, springing line, ribbed arch, hanging steps, saddle stone, flush point, rubble work, plumb rule, part lime, relieving arch, part cement, flat arch, mortar mix, arch stones, lime mix, rubble building Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Stone Country by John Watson in Back Matter
- Stone Work: Reflections on Serious Play and Other Aspects of Country Life by John Jerome in Back Matter
- Stone Country by Scott Sanders in Back Matter
- Where the Mountain Stands Alone: Stories of Place in the Monadnock Region by Howard Mansfield in Back Matter
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