Procedures Of Rock Carving Alberta

By Serena Price


Rock carving Alberta is an activity that has been done for a very long period of time and it definitely has various advantages as well as disadvantages both to the workers or the business people who have invested in this industry and the consumers of the products.

It may not require very high skills to do the curving since only the basic procedure is used at first although the workers have to have a clear idea about each of the varieties of rocks that are used for this purpose and the various advantages of each of them.

These curved rocks can be used for various purposes for instance some of these high quality rocks can be curved and trimmed to be given as models to champions for instance in Olympics. This is not a new activity, something that has gone on for a long while now. Some rocks are very rare and of very high value hence used for this purpose. They are also used for this also because of their very high durability.

Very bad accidents may be associated with this type of activity considering the fact that stone if generally a high density material. Some of experienced accidents may include: the workers being fallen on by the stone piles while working. This has always been the major incidence reported over time. People need to take very high precautions to avoid such occurrences in the near future.

They have in history been used to make sculptures which have been evidently very long lasting. These sculptures may be of respected people in the society or basically can be made by anyone who may just need a sculpture of someone prepared. This is an activity on Alberta that has been done both at a private level by individuals or as big companies. Both parties have to be licensed to be able to start this kind of business.

After the artisan has decided on how he or she wants to curve the ore, he marks it with a pencil or a crayon. This is done to basically indicate the shape in which the carver may want the stone to take. He them proceed to cut some very small grooves into the ore. Here a circular saw is used being passed along the framing marks with extreme care. After this, the artisan continues to chisel the ore around the prior drawn framing marks. After this, the product is refined further by use of a toothed chisel basically to smooth out the ore.

Most of this activity may involve very long working hours. This is very unhealthy especially for the workers since they may even lack time for their families. The long working hours are also not good for their health since they need to also rest sufficiently since it is not equally a very easy task. Most companies in this industry have been able to take care of this by giving specific hours for the works. This factor may majorly affect those who do the carving privately.

Rock carving Alberta, despite the highlighted disadvantages is an activity that is still ongoing because of the great beauty in its products and its various advantages. Many people have preferred to invest highly in this sector considering the ever increasing demand due to the considerably large size of consumer base. This means very high sales hence a lot of profits.




About the Author:



No comments:

Post a Comment