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Marble sculpting tools.
1 marble is commonly used for sculpture and as a building material.
Stone carving tool catalogs and links.
Many of the sculptor s tools had a variety of functions and could be used at different stages of the carving process.
Prior to the use of power tools the same basic implements were used for stone carving for hundreds of years.
In this video watch a contemporary sculptor demonstrate the use of traditional tools such as the tooth chisel the point chisel the drill and the rasp as he creates a finished figure of a woman from a block of marble.
Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals most commonly calcite or dolomite marble may be foliated.
In geology the term marble refers to metamorphosed limestone but its use in stonemasonry more broadly encompasses unmetamorphosed limestone.