The drill has
been repaired and I have invested in a new drill bit, so its back to perforating
sections of the stone with lots of holes close to each other in order to get a
nice clean slice of the block. So far I have removed around 1 ton of stone by
splitting and blocking out the corners and middle sections. Some sections broke
away with ease, other areas required a little more force!. This might be down
to my very old hand forged ‘Plugs and Feathers’, which I made myself years ago.
They have been pretty faithful to me and have successfully split tons of blocks
for me, however this hard Irish Limestone has really punished them, leaving
them twisted, bent and a lot shorter! The next stage
now is to place the wooden template on top of the slab and to mark out the
profile lines again before grinding and cutting away what remains of the drill
marks.
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