A more measured pace.

Posted: June 16th, 2010 | Author: Katusha Bull | no comments »

This green stone is described by my stone supplier in Vancouver, as brucite. It has a rather wonderful array of green to bluish gray colours in it and can at times be reasonably translucent.

It is quite a lot harder that alabaster and grinds better than it chisels as the crystals can tear out rather than cut cleanly. Also the hardness varies hugely within the rock.

My aim is to get as big a triangulate shape hollowed out within the piece as possible. The limitations are on getting the tools in there to do it. This is the easy part done.


Still working away.

Posted: June 16th, 2010 | Author: Katusha Bull | no comments »

What can I say? When the pace of my life speeds up, blogging drops off the radar. No doubt a very middle aged set of priorities!

So what have I been doing since the beginning of May other than spending a completely disproportionate amount of time on the telephone to customer services at Virgin? This…

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I was in such a frenzy of stone removal that I gave myself quite a start when suddenly I had this left.