Our Stone Carver, Ryan Watson was honored when asked to take on this project. Watson worked diligently with the home owners to design their very own personalized Family Crest. Watson uses both a pneumatic hammer as well as a mallet and chisel to create all of his hand carved pieces. The pneumatic hammer dates back to 1880 and helps to speed up the process. The chisels used are the same, but the difference is that in the same amount of the time it takes the pneumatic hammer to produce 100 small strokes, the hand mallet produces around 10 strokes. Watson continues to use hand mallets when working on the more intricate areas of his carvings achieving what you see here. Stay tuned for this weeks progress, installation pics to follow! Above are some of the chisels Our Stone Carver, Ryan Watson bought while working with Walter S. Arnold on the Chicago Board of Trade building. These tools predate the depression of 1929, most of which have the carvers names punched right into them from over 80 years ago! The family crest will soon be installed above this double-sided fireplace which we did the masonry for early summer. This fireplace stands at the homes newly renovated grand entrance. Here is a full view of the homes exterior, a project that we also completed this year. For the full story click HERE!
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In the summer of 2015, we were honored when Strata Developments asked us to participate in the restoration of this landmark on Saskatchewan Crescent West, a home built in 1910 for Mayor William Hopkins. Since our company specializes in Heritage Restoration and natural stone fabrication, we were definitely in our element and ready to dive right in. So when we learned that this project would be featured this winter in Saskatoon's HOME magazine, we were absolutely delighted. Thanks go out to the lovely Publisher, Amanda Soulodre for recognizing such a historical landmark in Saskatoon, and for telling its story so well.
ROCCO MASONS scope of work included replacing the homes disintegrating concrete stair treads with limestone, each tread weighing in at 650 pounds. We tore down the two brick posts at either side of the staircase, cleaned each brick piece by piece (as pictured above) before re-using them to return the posts to their original state. Once the posts were rebuilt, we capped off each post with 1900 pound limestone caps. We were very pleased when the home owner decided to use our recommendation of limestone for the bases of the homes ionic columns to replace the homes original wooden ones. Next, we laid limestone flooring throughout the patio which starts at the front entrance and wraps around to the back of the home. For the HOME magazines full story CLICK HERE and stay tuned for more exciting projects to come. We're happy to donate this hand carved limestone address marker to the silent auction at this years Boys Lunch Out - better known as the B.L.O., hosted annually by Saskatoon's Progress Club. All proceeds from this very successful event go towards the many charities the club supports such as these: CLICK HERE
What was once a rectangular chunk of limestone took Ryan Watson, Stone Carver & Progress Club member, over 10 hours of carving to transform it into what you see now. This one-of-a-kind piece stands 15 inches tall and is twenty one inches across. The highest bidder at the B.L.O. auction will receive this address marker installed at their location of choice, but not before their address numbers are carved in. For more about our Stone Carver see here: RYAN WATSON BIO Did you know that Rocco Masons offers Masonry Design Services for both commercial and residential projects including hand carved stone detail? After all, doesn't it makes sense to have an actual Stone Mason design the Masonry on your project?
Our Tuscan Style project in the beautiful community of Rosewood is right on schedule and looking amazing. Next up, the homes interior stone work featuring three stone fireplaces, an arched stone entrance wall that will coincide with the exterior, and a stone island in the kitchen. Stay tuned for the multiple stone arches that are just being wrapped up at the back of the home. Simply magnificent! |
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