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

In this article, we will discuss tools used for stone dressing.

  1. Introduction  

Stone dressing is the process of making stone smooth carried from quarries. The stone mined are rough in nature so it needs to be well dressed to use as a construction material. The stone of uneven shape and size are dressed well in this process.

  2. Tools Used for Stone Dressing  

The following tools are used for dressed stones:

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Name	Image	Use
1. Spall Hammer		Used for the rough dressing of stones.
2. Scrabbling Hammer		Used for removing irregular bushings.
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		Uses to cut soft stone.
11. Cross-cut saw		Used to cut hard stone.
12. Frame saw		Used to cut large blocks of stone.
13. Pitching tool		Used to make a stone of required size.
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.