Splitting Granite
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2020
- Splitting some granite for future projects.
Using two different splitting hammers and a hand tracer.
Carbide tools is king, but good old steel hammers do the work great to.
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Ordered a Rebit 1.5" Tracer Chisel from Sweden last week. If my wife finds out how much it cost, she'll kill me. Going to wait until her new patio is completed, before I tell her.😜
Nice work splitting one of the hardest stones (both in hardness and skill required) to work with. It definitely helps to have the right tools for the job. I'm working with flagstone. Like cutting into butter, compared to granite. Loved this video. Thanks for sharing.
Wow that’s amazing, you are going to love that chisel, sure they cost a lot, but they last a very long time. Your wife will understand 😀
Thanks for watching, if you document your work please share a link, would love to see your work 👍
Have a nice day
I had never seen such effective methods. Thanks a lot.
Thanks for viewing my video 🙏 I’m glad you found it interesting.
You do have the right tool , yes your technique is correct but this method is much more effective when you use a larger flat surface rock as your work table .By trying to split the rock on the grass the ground/soft soil is absorbing most of the energy exerted into splitting the rock .
You are very right sir 👍
Not only will you get more force on each strike and being way more efficient, If you ever thinking about doing this sustainable, ergonomic is key. Working on your knees will not work in the long run.
Thanks for watching and interacting 🙏
I'm amazed with just how easy it is with the right tools I'm buying a few stone hammers & using this technique for my pond edging & waterfall :) awesome video thanks
Thanks for stopping by 🙏 I Wish you the best of luck with your projects.
Thanks for your comment.
Have a nice day!
RIGHT TOOLDS LIGHT JOB. -jc
What a lovely job... I love stones so much and working on them. And this video is so nice
Thank you very much 🙏
Yes stone is a lovely material with lots of different varieties and expressions.
@@workingstoned good luck my friend... It is very blessing job. Sience my childhood, I do somethings on wood, on stones and on iron and I love even smell of this kind job ☺️
Keep up with the good work and, thank you for sharing the websites from where to get good tools for stone work.
Thanks for your kind words and feedback 🙏 Glad you found the info 👍
Great video! Just perfect precision! Therapy for this guy 👍 subscribed
Welcome to my channel. Thanks for the view, comment and subscription 🙏 Glad you enjoyed it.
That was beautifully done.
Thank you 🙏
Good work mate,done a lot of stonework here in Aussie and some of our granite is crumbly and the other is as hard as hell but red and pink cream make the effort worthwhile,nothing looks better than stone.Take care stay safe....
Awesome to hear from the other side of the globe 🙏 Granite is my favorite type of stone, Im lucky to own a piece property that is littered with it 😀
I’ve got a few red/pink ones, but it’s mostly blue ish and black and white. I honestly love them all.
Thank you for your comment and you viewing my videos means a lot.
Have a nice day and take care
عمل دقيق ومحترف ومُتقَن لأن الحجر البازلتي يحتاج للدقه لشبه إنعدام عروق الرمل فيه
شكرا لكم ولجهودكم ولقناتكم الرائعه
من سوريه لكم كلّ الإحترام
Thank you very much and thanks for viewing 🙏 Welcome to the channel
Very nicely done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you 🙏
Hello Sir, I love your stone work and the videos, it's obvious that you have a passion for stone, as do I. When I was a young fellow I built myself a stone house. One caution I will point out is never to hit two hardened hammers together as they can shatter. I went to the hospital by doing that, a chunk went clear to the bone in my leg. The set hammer at 0:56 looks like it may be hard, the other tools look fine. Thanks for sharing your work. ....Doc
Hi! Thank you for your comment and especially your input concerning safety 🙏 I will take your comment to heart and be observant when using my old mason hammer 👍
@@workingstoned Thank you for the return comment. I had a local blacksmith anneal ( soften ) my favorite striking hammer ( 3 lb. ) and then I could use it to strike any other tool with safety. Regards....Doc
Great tip 🙏 thank you.
This is so helpful.
I’m glad you liked it. Thanks for watching my video 🙏
Отличная работа дружище! Есть опыт в кладке кирпича и блоков, но хочу научится работать с настоящим камнем. Ведь нет ничего более красивого и долговечнее)))
Thank you for watching, I hope you find it inspiring 🙏
The scary thing is that there are people on youtube right now claiming that this could only conceivably be done by aliens using lasers. They could literally just search "splitting granite with hand tools" but instead, they comment about "only power tools can cut granite, copper?! Must have been aliens with lazer beams shooting out of their spaceships. Yea, thats far more conceivable. Now to attack anyone who disagrees with me..."
Well I’m no alien 👽 or at least to my knowledge. And even if some of the masons i’ve been watching seems out of this world I’m pretty sure they’re all humans.
Thanks for watching my video/s and help me spread the word that humans do know how to split granite.
@@workingstoned and thank you for sharing! You do amazing work!
@@workingstoned also... thats exactly what an alien would say. And i know this from my extensive knowledge of sci-fi movies, comics, and television programs.
Haha damn it you caught me 😆
*solid...YEAH, ASA ROCK!* -JC
Damn right! ✊🏻
Nothing more sustainable than good old rock
You are right 👍 It’s beautiful, durable and sustainable.
@@workingstoned which tools do you recommend for beginers?
I would recommend getting a hand tracer and a comfortable hammer if you are just staring out splitting and shaping stones, then as you go you can add tools, like a hand set and a point chisel.
If you got the funds, I would recommend carbide tip tools, but steel tools work great to, just needs more maintenance.
one should always wear a mask when working with granite. Granite is somewhat radioactive and the dust gives off alpha particles which you do not want to inhale.
You are right, radioactive or not, every time you’re working in a dusty environment you should wear a mask. My excuse is I don’t do this for a living, and the days that are not windy I do wear a mask 👍
great video....but man those carbide tools are expensive if only doing a few rocks
Thanks for viewing 🙏 Yes carbide tools are expensive and probably nothing you’ll buy for just a few stones. Steel tools are great to, you will probably end up with the same results but It will take a little longer and your tools will need more maintenance.
belo trabalho,siga forte
Obrigado! 🙏
Thx for the vid!
Curious: what causes you to decide to switch between tools?
Could a cross pein hammer do the trick in a pinch (probably not as well without carbide edge?)? Does a round granite fieldstone do about the same or harder to control the split?
Thanks for viewing and thanks for the questions.
The only reason for switching between tools is to demonstrate how they work. You don’t need a carbide tip/blade to split stone, I have steel tools to and they work very well, but they need more maintenance. And if you get to feel the difference, carbide do hit different, it has a greater impact on the stone and you even feel it when holding the tracer. So cross pein hammer would do the trick.
It’s very hard to determine how a round or somewhat round field stone will split as you have no way of telling how the stone “is built” until it’s split, to put it in a different way 😀 if it has weaknesses or cracks, if it’s gneiss or granite.
But with determination and tools a lot of the time it works out in your favor.
Ya Nadamas ver donde consigo esos cinceles y con gusto lo intentaré… tengo muchas piedrillas que de verdad son un dolor y veo que así las pudiera aprovechar para muchas cosas 👍
Thanks for watching 🙏
Depending on where you live, are you located in US I would look at Trow & Holden, amazing tools. If you’re located in EU look for Stones & Rocks or Stenverktyg
rockandtools.com/en/
trowandholden.com
stenverktyg.se
As far as I know all of them ship internationally.
Nice
Thank you!
I have been working on splitting stones I am finding on the mountain but it seems like whenever I try to split a granite stone it just wants to blow out wherever even when using my stone buster and creating that line all the way around. Do you have any tips?
Hu! Thanks for your view and comment/question.
Some stones, granite included, can be tricky to split, some won’t let you split it while some split rather easily. It’s hard to figure out why your stones won’t split. First off inspect the boulder/stone for cracks, if they got cracks they will probably only split where the crack is. And try to work the middle/center of the stone, that way you get equal amount of pressure on both sides of the split line and start off not striking it to hard and as you work the tracing line you get deeper and deeper and can strike the tracer or buster harder. If you go to hard in the beginning you risk just chipping off pieces. I hope this helps a little bit. Just remember not every stone is created equally and they will react differently.
Have a great day!
just wondering? Could you score the fracturing edge with a diamond wheel then use the wedge?
You absolutely can, you are never a 100% guaranteed , but then again you aren’t when it comes to drilling either. You just need to up your odds, and when using a blade to score/cut you need to goo as deep as you can and use more than one wedge 👍
Great
Thank you 🙏
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cool
Thank you!
Are there any books on stone masonry, specifically cutting and shaping, that you would recommend?
I only have one book about masonry, but it pretty much only covers construction, and had a half page about splitting and nothing about shaping. I myself started watching youtube and tried figuring out stuff myself. That being said, there might be books out there, but I haven’t found one.
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Don’t want to sound totally ignorant but what are the tools you use for these videos and where do you get them?
Thanks for your question. The tools I use is a Hand tracer with a carbide tip/blade, and a “Stone buster” It’s the hammer version of the hand tracer, also with a carbide tip/blade. Depending on were you live you have various places to obtain theses tools. For US residents I would recommend Trow & Holden Company, EU residents I would recommend Rock & Tools
and If you by any chance is from Sweden we have Stenverktyg. I’ve shopped from all three companies and can really recommend all, they all ship internationally but for the sake of customs and shipping rate it’s better to keep it “locally”. In this video I’m also using my favorite tool, and it’s an vintage Masons hammer i got from eBay.
Links to the shops:
rockandtools.com/en/
trowandholden.com
www.stenverktyg.se
Have a nice day!
@@workingstoned thank you!
And thanks for a great channel!
Cool stuff, man👍🏼
Thanks!
job well done video however would be nicer about 12min shorter
Thank you for watching 🙏
What do you call that chisel in english? Just wondering, we call it a 'jop' over here
It’s called a “Hand Tracer”, the hammers is basically the same thing, just heavy duty and is often referred to as “Stone Busters”. The vintage hammer I use is called a “Masons Hammer”. Were you from?
@@workingstoned Nice, ty.
I'm from Belgium. I've worked stone aswell the last few years, especially loving all stuff done the old ways. Soon starting up a new chapter in reastauration of the old cathedrals n things like that :D
Are you smacking carbide with that steel mallet??
No
In what way can a small stone be leveled on 4 faces?) let's say 3-4 cm in volume. For dioramas.
Interesting question, There is probably a lot of different ways to go about it. But chiseling and using a point chisel to try to level it out, a bushing hammer is a very useful tool to flatten stone and leveling out high points.
If you have an SDS hammer drill there are bushing attachments that makes flattening out a real breeze. I’ve got both SDS+ and Max and both work great, I will shoot a video with them soon.
@@workingstoned Thank you) I think I'll try to buy a grinding machine, because it gives out a lot of revolutions. It is possible to grind a stone in this way, I think, and there are a lot of such stones for sale :)
Of course you can grind, but be aware, it produces a lot of dust.
@@workingstoned Yes, I know that) And would you advise a material that can be poured into molds and get the same stone in strength? It may be less durable, for example gypsum + self-leveling floor. Cement somehow does not fit the texture... It is necessary to create an imitation of a natural stone, and it would be better if the stone itself, of course, but it takes a long time to grind. This is not very suitable for implementation)
There is probably some products out there, I’ve never seen any. Granite is produced under a lot of heat and pressure so I doubt you would be able to recreate it, but I might get close.
I’ve only collected rock dust and added it to the garden and lawn.
Should have the stone on a bank.Angle grinder quicker.But that might be cheatung
You are absolutely right, from a ergonomic standpoint. In this case it was about split fast on the spot using different tools. You don’t have to trace as much as I did, an experience mason would split that in seconds probably tracing a few times the flip it over and wack it over the trace.
Sure an angle grinder is fast, but it’s way “dirtier” and I don’t like the sawed smooth look on granite, I like it cut with a more live look to it. But to each his own.
Where is Available your Working Tools
The shops I’ve bought from are
US: trowandholden.com
EU: rockandtools.com
SWE: stenverktyg.se
There are probably more shop, but I personally can recommend those three.
Enjoy!
No wonder stone work cost so damn much
Yeah quite labor intensive work, and to be fair I’m not exercising the best/most efficient method of splitting rocks. But it still requires a lot of time.
في بلدي لتشذيب حواف الحجر نستخدم مطرقه مسننه
Do you work with sandstone?
Why is my sandstone not splitting like this?
Sandstone is a much “softer” rock, and therefore is difficult to control. I don’t have any experience with sandstone so I can’t give you any advice. But If I would try to split sandstone, I would work the trace more than I would with granite, alternatively use wedges.
salve dove posso comprare una scalpello come il vostro dal vidio vostro ore 3:54 secondi
You will find it at Trow & Holden if you are US based or Rocks and Tools if you are EU based. It’s called a Hand Tracer
@@workingstoned sono ITALIANO
IN ITALIA SE QUALCUNO CHE LI VENDE GRAZIE
Sorry I don’t know any sellers in Italy. You can try Amazon or I can recommend this one
stenverktyg.se/produkt/ritsmejsel-40-mm/
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whatever you do, please don't get your knees dirty. thanks
Sure, get a 13 minute glimpse into my life and decide to comment, don’t worry I get my knees dirty. Why don’t you go out and enjoy splitting stone instead of sitting on your behind and complaining.
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hello sir what is the name of that stone hammer
Hi!
They go by ”Stone buster” or that’s what Trow & Holden calls it, it the hammer version of a hand tracer. The vintage hammer is just called a mason hammer.
Why do you buy such chisels
Because they bring me joy and destruction 👍
No CC for those of us who are deaf = no like; your choice!
You are right, I will get better at using text in my videos. The reason there is no CC is because there is no audio (explaining) just ambient sound and some videos have music that no one likes 😀
I still hope you found the video a little bit entertaining and informative. Thanks for the comment and heads up 🙏
@@workingstoned AOK and I shall change. But how was I to know?
You are right, It never crossed my mind, therefore I’m glad you brought it up 👍
Looks like you are striking regular stone hammers with a striking hammer. Stone hammers are tempered differently than striking hammers. Stone hammers should not be hit with striking hammers. They should only hit stone. There are hammers to split stone in the manner you are doing. They are manufactured with the intent to be struck by another hammer. Obviously using the stone hammers inappropriately can still split a stone as you have done but you ruin the quality of your stone hammer. It is possible that the stone hammers you are using were tempered to be struck as you are doing. But, Usually the heads on those hammers are not shaped like the ones you are using. Do you know for fact that your stone hammers were manufactured to be struck by a striking hammer? Unless the manufacturer specifically has specified in writing that that’s the case, Industry standards say it’s an inappropriate use. Hate to see aspiring stonemasons ruining their tools.