What is "chisels"

Usage examples of "chisels".

This was the picture he loved, one which meant home and security for him: the father working with tempered iron chisels to round a fluted column, the youngest son beveling a set of steps, one of the older two carving a delicate window frame, the other graining a door panel, the grandfather polishing a column on a pumice wheelstone with thin river sand.

I have some of these fussy chisels to make, for the detail work, and I'm short men, so it can wait that long.

Long before you need the other chisels, they will be ready for you to carve beauty.

Once he was within as close as a half finger of the final layer, he would turn to the clawed chisels, simply chisels with notches in their edge, to shear away the stone without fracturing the underlying structure of the marble.

He would use chisels with a series of finer and finer teeth to refine the work.

Finally, he would use smooth-bladed chisels, some only half as wide as his little finger.

The grooved lines of the toothed chisels used in opposing directions to shear off thin layers of stone were still evident on the lower calves, where the legs emerged he wanted the statue to bear testimony to the hand of man and the figures' origin in stone.

When he gazed at her, he hungered for a piece of marble and his chisels so he could carve her face in stone.

Irreplaceable treasure indeed: two hammers, three chisels, his awl and his axe, a shovel blade, a spokeshave, a plane, a kettle, a longhandled metal spoon, firetongs, the cowhides that had been stretched across the bed-frames, a furl of cloth that still showed rusty bloodstains… “We couldn’t carry it all,” Orta had explained.

It had defied defacing by Spire-made chisels and blades and had been painted with a grotesque likeness of the Kill-hound instead.

Indeed, you'll find some who'll tell you that the masons who built Spire Vanis owed as much to the old skills as they did to their chisels and lathes.

When his mother died and left him four gold pieces, he buried the poor woman in an apple crate and spent the money saved on a good set of hand chisels and a lathe.

Justen studied it: a set of knives, a warren, a stone-cutting hammer and matching chisels, some large and hooked needles.

I stayed long enough to watch both of them start attacking the stone around the dragon with chisels and mallets and swords and anything else that was to hand.

There was on hand a supply of beams, wedges, wooden horses, saws, bevels, hammers, wood chisels to repair the handles of hammers.