Creating a Sunrise . . . . . . from quarry stone to artwork.

Creating a Sunrise . . . . . . from quarry stone to artwork. http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images.html . . . the raw quarry stone as it looked in June. This is the back side. http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images.html#0 fcff548f-49d3-4006-b58a-b1f2a06576ad http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/P5290009/thumb.jpg http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/P5290009/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">. . . the raw quarry stone as it looked in June.  This is the back side.</p></div></div> end view http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images.html#1 b149e8c8-73a1-4c85-a869-e3346cf0d0b9 http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/P5290010/thumb.jpg http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/P5290010/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">end view</p></div></div> The front of the Emperor showing the original stylised tree. http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images.html#2 0ac7ca71-5f0f-45bf-b613-f46e792758da http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/P5290011/thumb.jpg http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/P5290011/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">The front of the Emperor showing the original stylised tree.</p></div></div> You could see the gorgeous interior of the stone where the rind had been polished through. http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images.html#3 46372f07-f7a6-49e3-aa30-334502fab04a http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/Emperor%27s%20Stone%202/thumb.jpg http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/Emperor%27s%20Stone%202/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">You could see the gorgeous interior of the stone where the rind had been polished through.</p></div></div> Starting off with a mini-grinder driving a diamond-blade http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images.html#4 6f61cd07-fd48-48f8-8152-cdba525a2b4a http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/P8150010/thumb.jpg http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/P8150010/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Starting off with a mini-grinder driving a diamond-blade</p></div></div> The blade has to be water-fed to keep it cutting. http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images.html#5 50816039-e7ba-49ce-bdba-89d2bb8077b5 http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/P8010001/thumb.jpg http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/P8010001/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The blade has to be water-fed to keep it cutting.</p></div></div> The blade is specially formulated for cutting hard porcelain tile, but borrowed for cutting jade. http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images.html#6 086010b3-a954-43e3-84a1-ab2610c48003 http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/P8240023/thumb.jpg http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/P8240023/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">The blade is specially formulated for cutting hard porcelain tile, but borrowed for cutting jade. </p></div></div> I used lots of blades, about 30 in all. This is just the beginning . . . http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images.html#7 1c8d8cd9-78c4-4eee-a687-48890ff6e81f http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/P8240026/thumb.jpg http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/P8240026/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">I used lots of blades, about 30 in all.  This is just the beginning . . .</p></div></div> The process is to make mulltiple close cuts and then knock the pieces off in between. http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images.html#8 f9991ae4-3ee0-4a28-8ef0-52404a1398ee http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/P8010006/thumb.jpg http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/P8010006/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">The process is to make mulltiple close cuts and then knock the pieces off in between.</p></div></div> It’s called ‘fretting’. http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images.html#9 fda6e273-e8fd-4c1e-aa62-ae1711a103ea http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/P8290007/thumb.jpg http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/P8290007/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">It’s called ‘fretting’. </p></div></div> The jade is so hard it quickly destroys the hammer used for breaking the frets. This bushing hammer had 16 good strong teeth when I started. This is after about two days’ work. http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images.html#10 ca18a15e-6f20-4042-9d8a-6b0226d9e347 http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/P8250027/thumb.jpg http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/P8250027/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">The jade is so hard it quickly  destroys the hammer used for breaking the frets.  This bushing hammer had 16  good strong teeth when I started.  This is after about two days’ work.</p></div></div> The ‘sun’ beginning to emerge. It’s now the end of July. s http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images.html#11 ba40635b-aa21-4462-8b7f-4a5cf583841f http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/P9090002/thumb.jpg http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/P9090002/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">The ‘sun’ beginning to emerge.  It’s now the end of July.<br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">s </p></div></div> Still a long way to go . . . http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images.html#12 db8d12dd-25ca-4f82-b9d7-6fcc6e162732 http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/PA240007/thumb.jpg http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/PA240007/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">Still a long way to go . . . </p></div></div> The large ‘mountain’ frets had to be broken with a sledge-hammer. http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images.html#13 c7da088c-01bc-4797-9150-2d13621606c0 http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/PA240002/thumb.jpg http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/PA240002/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">The large ‘mountain’ frets had to be broken with a sledge-hammer.</p></div></div> ‘Mountain range’. http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images.html#14 fbd44af6-22fe-42c4-961c-3f6b292576ef http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/PA240006/thumb.jpg http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/PA240006/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">‘Mountain range’.</p></div></div> A day’s work. http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images.html#15 e4fab699-b0cd-4e9d-b7df-49e00c1d22d1 http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/PA240004/thumb.jpg http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/PA240004/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">A day’s work.</p></div></div> By December it was at this stage, ready to start the fine polishing. http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images.html#16 d6ab5ee6-71c4-4913-b457-e6edcf9fc954 http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/Emperor%20Dec.%2012%3A07/thumb.jpg http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/Emperor%20Dec.%2012%3A07/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">By December it was at this stage, ready to start the fine polishing. </p></div></div> Sorry, no progressive shots, but the polishing was at this stage by January 15. http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images.html#17 85343de2-d98a-4f5f-b0e3-2ea4c4605a4c http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/P1070001/thumb.jpg http://www.granitecarver.com/Site/Emperor_images_files/Media/P1070001/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_166_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">Sorry, no progressive shots, but the polishing was at this stage by January 15.  </p></div></div>