Stone Cutters and Carvers, Manufacturing

Key skills

A typical day

• •Verify depths and dimensions of cuts or carvings to ensure adherence to specifications, blueprints, or models, using measuring instruments.
• •Move fingers over surfaces of carvings to ensure smoothness of finish.
• •Shape, trim, or touch up roughed-out designs with appropriate tools to finish carvings.
• •Lay out designs or dimensions from sketches or blueprints on stone surfaces, freehand or by transferring them from tracing paper, using scribes or chalk and measuring instruments.
• •Cut, shape, and finish rough blocks of building or monumental stone, according to diagrams or patterns.

Fields of study

Any field