Posted on 05/20/2025 2:11:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Stonemason's toolsPhoto by Marian Coman, courtesy of the Corvin Castle Museum, Hunedoara
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If the weather improves tomorrow, I'll be scarce around here. That's a break for you. :^)
That they lasted for 2,000 years means they didn’t come from Harbor Freight.
They would have been invaluable back then.
They made Steve Guttenberg a Star...
Cool. Why aren’t there any hammers?
> That they lasted for 2,000 years means they didn’t come from Harbor Freight. <
Ha! A serious do-it-yourself friend of mine said it’s okay to buy from Harbor Freight, but only if you plan to use the tool twice. Because it’s gonna break on the third use.
Bit of an exaggeration there, I’m sure.
If I were a 2000-year-old stone mason, I might forget where I left my tools too.
I have to shape granite in my work as an inscriber and very often as I do it with my powered modern tools I think of these guys who did it 2000 years ago and I wonder : HOW? Takes me long enough as it is. That aside, looking at the tools I’d guess that the user did only very specific things with this set. They look like tools to cut lines close fine edges and soft urges and shapes. They could also be used to cut guide lines in larger pieces for the heavy guys to rough out.
Thanks.
A GREAT find....
Not all that corroded.
Limestone is weak...
Until now, I hadn’t known what the 2000 Year Old Man did for a living.
Cow Tools
The Far Side cartoon that drove fans crazy.
Hammers, oddly enough, were among the last tools invented. And even more odd is the fact that *nails* were invented at least 1000 years earlier. No one could figure out what to do with them, so they were stuck in a drawer until the fortieth generation of young craftspeople asked one more time, "what are these for?"
Well, Harbor Freight probably does exaggerate about their bits, but if they snap after a few holes, the low cost makes the whole thing work out.
They don’t look like they could cut Granite blocks.
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