Modern stone-cutting and masonry : with special reference to the making of working drawings (1896)
Siebert, John S. (John Selmar), Biggin, Frederic Child · New York : J. Wiley & Son ; London : Chapman & Hall · leaf 22
DEFINITIONS AND CLASSIFICATIONS. 9 off by the bush-hammer, and the stone is then said to be "bushed." This kind of finish is dangerous on sandstone, as experience has proved that sandstone thus treated is very apt to scale. In dressing limestone which is to have a bush-hammered … Fig. 13. Fig. 14. finish the usual sequence of operations is: 1st, rough-point- ing; 2d, tooth-axing; 3d, bush-hammering. Rubbed. — In dressing sandstone and marble it is very common to give the stone a plane surface at once by the use of the stone-saw. Any roughnesses left by the saw are re- moved…
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