An explanation of the customization process of Stone Garden Statues

For Stone Garden Statues, casting and cold working are two common methods.

Models made of Stone Garden Statues will have better strength, so don't worry about being damaged easily like clay models. When using cold processing, workers divide the entire surface of the stone sculpture into many small pieces, and each piece needs to be numbered. The raw

materials used in stone carving cold processing are pre-prepared stone carving boards of different thicknesses, and workers need to draw corresponding shapes according to each numbered small area on the stone carving board. Because the stone carving board is flat and the surface of the stone carving is three-dimensional, the area of each small piece cannot be too large. In addition, each small piece needs to leave some space to facilitate subsequent processing.

The next step is to use simple and primitive tools to tap each small piece by hand, while using the plasticity of the metal to form a three-dimensional surface layer corresponding to the surface layer of the stone sculpture. This process is laborious and produces a high level of noise. In such a noisy working environment, the master workers carved out exquisite works of art one after another.

This repeated tapping requires enough time and patience, and the process can only be completed when each piece can be well matched to a certain area of the stone carving. After all the small pieces on the surface are hammered and fixed, each small piece is connected by welding to form the outer surface of the stone sculpture, which looks basically the same as the original work. Since the cold working method is to shape the surface of the content through beating, it is more suitable for stone sculpture whose surface is not very complicated.

After welding, the surface of the workpiece becomes rough, which is far from the mirror effect we usually remember. After the welding is completed, the work needs to be polished before the effect can be presented to us. While there are some power tools that can be used for grinding, it still requires a lot of time and labor to complete.