Name   Other Stone Cutters and Carvers
Number 82090
Description This group includes stone cutters and carvers not elsewhere classified, for example those who specialise in cutting, lettering and designs on stones by directing a blast of sand or shot against surfaces left exposed by a stencil on a stone face; operating machines with specially shaped abrasive wheels for cutting mouldings, grooves, panels and other decorative designs in stone blocks; polishing curved and irregular surfaces of blocks or slabs of stone to a lustrous finish by hand; drilling holes in finished slabs and blocks of building stone for insertion of wires or rods for mounting and fastening purposes.


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