Posted by Steve | Posted in Carving Tools and Techniques | Posted on 13-08-2010
Tags: carving, home, house, stone, stone carving new york, tile

Remains of the Day (gargoyles)
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Dremel 7700-1/15 MultiPro 7.2-Volt Cordless Rotary Tool Kit $43.69 Ready to go at a minute’s notice, the Dremel 7700-1/15 MultiPro Cordless Rotary Tool Kit is perfect for a variety of hobby, craft, and light-duty home improvement projects. The two-speed rotary tool is capable of doing almost anything the standard MultiPro does, but with cordless convenience. The kit comes with a carrying case, battery pack, charger, one attachment, and 15 accessories that give yo… |
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Animals in Stone: Architectural Sculpture in New York City $14.95 A delightful collection of creatures that adorn New York City buildings.Companion to Faces in Stone, this is a gift-sized and attractively priced book for architecture buffs. It features more than one hundred imaginative sculptural details, from the domestic to the fantastic, with a brief introduction and contextual photos to show the building on which each ornament appears, the addresses, and tra… |
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Ancient Stone Sites of New England and the Debate Over Early European Exploration $35.00 In New England today, there are megalithic stones, stone chambers and structures, carvings and petroglyphs, even an unidentified skeleton in armor that defy easy explanation. From Maine to Massachusetts, this work presents an examination of various unexplained historical remains in New England. From the most notorious to the lesser known, it explores not only the layout and dimensions of such site… |
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Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University $31.99 “Treasures Rediscovered” focuses on a group of 22 stone devotional objects and architectural fragments that collectively represent major developments in Chinese religion and mortuary culture, from the Han (206 BCE-220 CE) through the Tang dynasty (618-907). The major emphasis is on works from the sixth century, a period of great intellectual ferment and artistic transformation, above all in the Bu… |
