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Stonemasons, stone cutters, splitters and carvers
Stonemasons, stone cutters, splitters and carvers cut and shape hard and soft stone blocks and slabs for the construction and maintenance of stone structures and monumental masonry, and carve designs and figures in stone.
Role Responsibilities
- Selecting and grading slabs and blocks of granite, marble, and other stone
- Cutting and carving characters, figures or designs on stone blocks used for monuments or memorials
- Setting stone in the erection of monuments and memorials
- Driving wedges into quarried stone to break it into slabs or blocks
- Making patterns and marking shapes on stone for subsequent sawing, planing, drilling and other dressing and cutting operations
- Repairing and replacing stonework on old buildings, churches and monuments
- Cutting, shaping and finishing building and monumental stone such as granite or marble using hand tools or hand-held power tools