20+ Tools Used for Stone Dressing: With Images and Uses

✔ This article discusses the 20+ tools used for stone dressing with appropriate images and uses. Stone dressing is making stones extracted from quarries uniform and smooth.

✔ The stones mined from quarries are rough, so they need to be well-dressed to use as a construction material. The stones of uneven shape and size are dressed well in this process to improve the structure’s aesthetic where they are used.

20+ Tools Used for Stone Dressing  

The following tools are used for dressed stones:

Name	Image	Use
1. Spall Hammer		Used for the rough dressing of stones.
2. Scrabbling Hammer		Used for removing irregular bushings from the surface of the stones.
3. Mash Hammer		Used for the rough dressing of stones.
4. Wallers Hammer		Used for removing spalls.
5. Club Hammers		Used to strike narrow-headed chisels.
6. Mallet		Used to strike mallet-headed chisels.
7. Dummy		Used for striking chisels for carving work.
8. Gad		Used to split stones.
9. Drag		Used to give drag finish.
10. Hand Saw		It is used to cut soft stones.
11. Cross-cut saw		Used to cut hard stone.
12. Frame saw		Used to cut large blocks of stone.
13. Pitching tool		Used to remove the irregularities from the stone surface.
14. Square		Used to set edges at right angles.
15. Boaster		Used to cut soft stones.
16. Punch		Used for rough dressing.
17. Point		Used for rough dressing for hard stone.
18. Gouge		Used to dress stones for cornices, string courses, etc.
19. Broad Tool (nicker)		Used to form chisel lines on the stone surface.
20. Wood-handled chisel		Used to dress soft stones.
21. Claw chisel		Used to dress hard stones.
22. Tooth chisel		Used to dress hard stones.
23. Drafting chisel		Used for the fine dressing of stone.