The ingenious minds at Primitive Technology demonstrate how to craft a fireproof hut entirely by hand over 102 days using ...

Cutting through stone, brick, or metal? These tools ... cold chisels have a beveled cutting edge and an octagon-shaped hand ... Don’t use a cold chisel to cut masonry; there are specially made ...

Types of Tools for Shaping Stone by Hand. Having high-quality tools when working with stone will make shaping faster (and certain shaping possible), improve your accuracy, and reduce maintenance time.

Trinity Church, pictured here before the 1925 earthquake damaged it heavily but left it standing, dates from Santa Barbara's “golden age” of local stone masonry. Stone has been a time-honored building ...