The Stone Cap.

Well, I wish that I would have taken more pictures of this thing before I started working on it. When it came out of the woods on a skid loader. It was so dang big that the skid loader was tetering back and forth like a seesaw. Most stone if you mess up on it and have to start over it’s not that big of a deal. This stone was different. We did not have another one big enough to do the entire cap stone. That meant that if I were to make a mistake cutting this thing down to size that was it. We would have had too come up with a different way to top this thing off. As far as I was concerned, there was no other way to top this thing off. It had to be one big stone cap. I don’t think it would have looked quite as good any othe way.

In this photo you can see the cap is starting to take shape. It has been “roughed” down to its current size. The Idea is to chunk it out till you get close to the size you need. Then it has to be suspended in it’s final location to be fit in place.

This is Stone Masonry in it’s purest form. Some people think laying a stone makes you a stone mason… Incorrect. It’s the cutting of the stone that makes a stone mason.

Stone Masonry. Lancaster, PA.